Crystal Kolipe writes in about her work on the framebuffer console, and provides an article on

… how to add a 'night mode' to the OpenBSD framebuffer console to give the text a yellow tint for more comfortable night time viewing, along with quite a few other cosmetic tweaks such as adding support for strikethrough text and double underlining. The article explains how to dynamically adjust the colour pallette, add a new sysctl value, and add a new escape sequence to the console emulation code in the kernel.

Following much development and testing, parallel IP forwarding has been enabled in -current. The most recent of the relevant commits are:

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	bluhm@cvs.openbsd.org	2022/04/30 15:13:57

Modified files:
	sys/net        : if.c ifq.c 

Log message:
Run IP input and forwarding with shared netlock.  Also distribute
packets from the interface receive rings into multiple net task
queues.
Note that we still have only one softnet task.  So there will be
no concurrency yet, but we can notice wrong exclusive lock assertions.
Soon the final step will be to increase the NET_TASKQ define.
lots of testing Hrvoje Popovski; OK sashan@

and:

In -current, the performance of pkg_add(1) has been greatly enhanced by the enabling of caching by default:

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	espie@cvs.openbsd.org	2022/04/29 04:44:05

Modified files:
	usr.sbin/pkg_add/OpenBSD: PackageLocation.pm 
	usr.sbin/pkg_add/OpenBSD/PackageRepository: Cache.pm 
	                                            Installed.pm 

Log message:
finally, turn on caching by default

change the defines:
TEST_CACHING -> !NO_CACHING
TEST_CACHING_VERBOSE -> CACHING_VERBOSE
TEST_CACHING_RECHECK -> CACHING_RECHECK

okay with sthen@

syspatch71-001_wifi was somewhat broken (in terms of the housekeeping rather than the functionality of the patch).

On those systems to which the faulty patch was applied, some manual intervention is required. Instructions for this are now on the errata page.

Hot on the heels of OpenBSD 7.1's release, LibreSSL has been updated to 3.5.2!

The complete release notes may be read here: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-3.5.2-relnotes.txt

The long spring (or fall) wait is over, the OpenBSD project today formally released OpenBSD 7.1, the 52nd release of our favorite open source operating system.

As usual, the release page lists the main highlights of the new release, which include

• OpenBSD/arm64 contains greatly improved support for Apple M1 systems [See earlier article].
• loongson platform retired.
• Many improvements to wireless networking. iwm(4) and iwx(4) have gained 80MHz channel support [See earlier article]. mtw(4), a driver for MediaTek MT7601U Wi-Fi devices, was added [See earlier article].
• Utility realpath(1) has been added.
• httpd(8) gained support for customised error pages and pre-compressed gzip files.
• Sysctl hw.perfpolicy is now set to auto by default at startup.
• igc(4), a driver for Intel 2.5Gb Ethernet controllers, has been added.
• Mouse tracking is now disabled by default in xterm(1). Setting X resource allowMouseOps to true reinstates the earlier behaviour.
• OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.0 [See earlier article].
  • This includes support for ssh-agent restriction [See earlier article].
  • Post-quantum KEX algorithm sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com is now the default.
  • sftp(1) client has gained a "cp" command that supports server-side copying of files (using the new "copy-data" protocol extension).
• The login class capability database now supports /etc/login.conf.d/${class}, and this is used by the ports system.
• Base now includes (optional) support for minimal runtime detection of undefined behaviour. As described in clang-local(1), this requires use of clang(1)'s -fsanitize-minimal-runtime flag.

The new release supports 13 distinct hardware platforms with thousands of prebuilt packages for all platforms.

If you want to delve further into the details before (or while, after) installing or upgrading to the new release, the detailed changelog has all the details. Those upgrading from the 7.0 release (or earlier) should consult the Upgrade Guide.

If you enjoy this release, please remember to donate to the project as a way of saying thanks to the developers for their work.

Claudio Jeker (claudio@) has just announced the release of OpenBGPD 7.3. He writes:

We have released OpenBGPD 7.3, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

    * Macro expansion in the config file is improved. It is now possible
      to expand 'set large-community $myAS:$location:$transit'.

    * Add initial FIB support for Linux. Routes can be added and removed.
      Nexthop tracking and dynamic interface detection are not yet implemented. 

    * Major refactoring in the RIB codebase to add multipath support in
      an upcoming release.

OpenBGPD-portable is known to compile and run on FreeBSD, and
the Linux distributions Alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu.
It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt OpenBGPD-portable
to more distributions.

We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community.
Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release
possible.

Version 9.0 of OpenSSH has been released. Notable changes include:

• scp(1) uses the SFTP protocol by default.
• ssh(1)/sshd(8) use the "sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com" post-quantum key exchange (KEX) algorithm by default.
• ssh-agent restriction [See earlier article] is supported.
• The sftp(1) client has gained a "copy"/"cp" command that supports server-side copying of files (using the new "copy-data" protocol extension).

OpenBSD 7.1 will include the new release.

In a message to tech@ (and arm64@), Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) wrote:

It has taken a while, but I'm pleased to announce that OpenBSD/arm64
works well enough on Apple M1 systems for some wider testing.  A major
milestone was reached with the release of the Asahi Linux installer:

  https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/

This provides an easy way to add UEFI "firmware" to your Apple M1
machine which is required to boot OpenBSD/arm64.  The basic steps are:
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