TL;DR

• OpenBSD 8.0 released!
• Release 8.0 comes with a song and its lyrics!
• OpenBSD 7.8 reached end of life, time to upgrade
• Virtual machines in vmd can now use up to 64 CPUs

New 8.0 release highlights

• Desktops available: GNOME 49, Plasma 6.7.5, Xfce 4.20.0, Wayland 1.26.0 (Sway, Niri, Labwc, Wayfire and more)
• Some Intel Arc graphics cards are now supported
• Graphics drivers updated to Linux 6.18.53, and graphics cards with more than 4 GB of memory can now use all of it (up to 512 GB)
• Hibernation works on arm64
• Faster encrypted swap, and better memory handling under RAM pressure
• Faster Wi-Fi with qwx(4) thanks to 802.11n support
• Newer Intel Ethernet cards are supported by em(4) and ix(4)
• pkg_add no longer looks for packages in the current directory
• httpd can now set custom HTTP headers
• httpd and relayd now use stricter TLS ciphers by default, very old clients may not connect anymore
• You can read the full changelog for more details

Going further

• vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs (link)
• Headers Up! What's New in httpd and relayd (link)
• OpenSSH 10.6 released, with a hybrid post-quantum signature algorithm (link)
• EuroBSDCon 2026 took place in Brussels in September (link)

Artwork of the moment

Authors

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