TL;DR

• OpenBSD 7.9 released!
• Release 7.9 comes with a song!
• Tshirts and stuff related to OpenBSD 7.9 available again

New 7.9 release highlights

• Desktops available: GNOME 49, Plasma 6.6.4, Xfce 4.20.0, Wayland 1.24.0 (sway and other compositors)
• It is now possible to not use "slow" cores on Intel CPU using hw.blockcpu sysctl
• Suspended laptop can hibernate after a fixed delay to avoid draining the battery
• IPv6 autoconf is now enabled by default
• sysupgrade process will abort if the /usr partition disk usage is above 90%
• Usual performance improvements by unlocking more kernel mechanisms
• Many other changes!

Going further

• Vaultwarden password manager on OpenBSD (link)
• Printing on HP Color Laser 150nw from OpenBSD (link)
• Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel (link)
• Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good (link)
• Emulating *BSD on ARM, Part 3: OpenBSD (link)
• Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop (link)
• Adding IPv6 to My Home Network (link)

Artwork of the moment

Artwork by Prahou.

Authors

Solène Rapenne and the people involved in the translations. Many thanks to everyone supportive of the idea!