OpenBSD Webzine #15

TL;DR

OpenBSD 7.4 is out! Let's cover it like everyone else

Don't forget to read the upgrade guide

A truly special webzine issue will be released at the end of the month

New 7.4 release highlights

pkg_add -u speedup (like factor x20)
battery charging threshold (seems the man page was forgotten, some instructions in the commit
wayland starts to be usable (but not out of the box)
malloc can now help finding memory leak
ssh keystroke timing obfuscation is a thing
installer improvement, encrypted disk is now easier on arm64 boards like rpi4
cron ranges support random offsets
vmd is now using separate process for virtual devices
being in the operator group no longer allows to shutdown the system, a new group _shutdown exists for this purpose
pfsync got rewritten
softdep mount option disabled
lot of improvements in the Emacs like mg(1) editor
many many other changes... I won't copy paste the announcement ;)

Artworks of the moment

A small Puffy with big cute eyes holding a network cable. The background features a laptop, on its screen there issome highlighted text in blue in a terminal. — A small Puffy with big cute eyes holding a network cable. The background features a laptop, on its screen there is some highlighted text in blue in a terminal.

7.4-stable changes

Good news everyone, no day one syspatch! :-)

Going further

Official OpenBSD 7.4 release announcement
OpenBSD 7.4 released (undeadly)
Introduction to sysclean(8), an useful program to look for extra files in the system, upgrade are the perfect moment to use it!

Authors

Solène Rapenne. Many thanks to everyone involved and supportive of the idea, especially my friend Tomáš for making all his OpenBSD related art! His art is truly inspirative to me, I think I'm going to end up publishing Webzine issues only to see his artworks :-)