TL;DR
- OpenBSD 7.2 is out!
- Webzine is late! 😅
- More SMP improvements
- Lot of new programs packaged!
Recent -current changes
- system calls mmap, munmap and mprotect are now unlocked
Interesting new packages
- jitsi, a self-hosted video conferencing platform
- nushell, a new kind of shell
- helix, modal text editor
- OCRmyPDF, add an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files
- siril, astronomical image processing tool
- coil64, an inductance coil calculator
- opensearch, distributed and RESTful search engine
- step-ca, private certificate authority and ACME server
- iblock, inetd program to blackhole IPs connecting to it
- seergdb, graphical front-end to GDB
- ungoogled-chromium, Chromium browser sans integration with Google
- meli, terminal mail client
- stalwart, JMAP server
- amber, code search and replace tool
- reader, lightweight tool offering better readability of web pages
- freshrss, self-hosted RSS/Atom aggregator
- mycorrhiza, plain-text driven engine for personal wikis
- newsraft, lightweight feed reader for text terminals
- libreddit, alternative private front-end to Reddit
- tut, TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys
- llama, terminal file manager
7.2-stable updates (since last webzine issue)
- Syspatch: 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008
- Package updates: firefox, firefox-esr, php, adobe-source-code-pro, clamav, chicken, dbus, curl, easy-rsa, freerdp, gdk-pixbuf, gnome-control-center, heimdal, influxdb, isc-dhcp, jenkins, libxml, libmilter, nheko, nostromo, obsf4proxy, obsdfreqd, openldap, openssl, postfix, pjsua, pounce, protobuf, python3, sendmail, seamonkey, samba, rt, telegraf, thunderbird, nextcloud, tomcat, tor, tor-browser, tshark, trac, webkigtk, xfce4-settings, zeek (bro)
Shell tips
As the root user, you can use the command what on a kernel file to learn about its version.
$ doas what /bsd
/bsd:
OpenBSD 7.2-current (GENERIC) #819: Sat Nov 26 11:01:05 MST 2022
Going further
- Hosting a k3s cluster with vmm
- Why is OpenBSD documentation so good?
- Self-hosting Honk (a Mastodon server)
- Michael W. Lucas is publishing a new OpenBSD book
- [French] Introduction à influxdb
- How to make a kiosk
- Self-host a dendrite matrix server
- Next steps toward mimmutable
- Automatic services restart upon update
Artworks of the moment
Note from the editorial team
Yet another issue late on schedule, hopefuly nobody paid for the webzine, so it's fine. When a "to become" webzine issue is accumulating too much backlog, it's getting harder to get motivated to write it without missing news. So, this one doesn't contain much information, to be on rails again for the next one. I will try to increase the automation for filling some sections, this would ease adding content like erratas or packages.
Authors
Solène Rapenne. Many thanks to everyone involved and supportive of the idea