TL;DR

• 5 errata were published for 8.0 so far, doas syspatch installs them all
• They fix ppp(4), the nsd(8) DNS server, IPsec using AES-GMAC, webcams with video(4), and bring the new dbupdate(8)
• Upgrades from 7.9 are reported as smooth, no big bug known so far
• wine in -current!

Shell tips

Want to know if security fixes are waiting for you, without installing them yet? syspatch -c lists the available patches, and syspatch -l the ones already installed. It prints nothing when you are up to date, so you can put syspatch -c in root's crontab: you will get a mail only when a new patch is out.

Since erratum 005, OpenBSD 8.0 comes with dbupdate(8). It refreshes the list of certificate authorities (/etc/ssl/cert.pem) and the time zones (/usr/share/zoneinfo) between two releases. Run doas dbupdate -n to see what it would do without changing anything. If you added your own certificate authority to cert.pem, move it to /etc/ssl/cert.local.pem: dbupdate puts it back on top after each update.

Going further

• OpenBSD Jumpstart 8.0: a practical guide for new users (link)
• Wine on OpenBSD can already run The Witcher 3 (link)
• Video: The Witcher 3 Remastered running on OpenBSD through Wine (link)
• dbupdate(8): keep certificates and time zones up to date without waiting for a release (link)
• OpenBSD 8.0 with KDE Plasma in a QEMU virtual machine (link)
• Migrating from Codeberg Pages to an OpenBSD VPS (link)
• Blocking smart TV ads and telemetry with pf and Unbound (link)
• Steam for Windows now runs on OpenBSD -current through Wine (link)
• Comparing idle power usage of Lenovo ThinkCentre mini PCs on OpenBSD and other systems (link)
• Installing Ubuntu 26.04 Server in an OpenBSD vmm virtual machine (link)

Authors

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