TL;DR

• Happy new year!

Recent -current changes

• The bottom part of the uvm handler has been unlocked. I'm not an expert here but it has yielded a significant performance improvement on desktop usage for me and it's an important milestone for continuing the unlocking work.
• Base llvm updated to 13
• New wifi driver mtw for MediaTek MT7601U devices imported by new developer James Hastings (hastings@)
• ssh received support for ssh-agent restriction
• Lots of cleaning in libcrypto, libressl, dhcpleased, and many others

7.0-stable updates (since last webzine issue)

• Syspatch: 007 and 008. They are for all architectures.
• Package updates: ruby, nss, libvirt, nextcloud, tailscale, msmtp, solr, jenkins, ghidra, samba, thunderbird, apache, wireshark, roundcubemail

Shell tips

Did you know your shell has keyboard shortcuts? They are quite useful. Here is a list for the default mode ("emacs mode"):

• ctrl+r: search in history
• ctrl+a and ctrl+e : move cursor to beginning or end of the line
• alt+d and alt+backspace : delete the word before or after the cursor
• ctrl+k and ctrl+u : delete the text before or after the cursor (except in ksh for which ctrl+u delete the entire line)
• ctrl+y: paste the last deleted text

Going further

• BSDNow podcast interviewed Solène Rapenne
• OpenBSD on MeLE Quieter2
• Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via vmm(4)
• Install OpenBSD 7.0 on a Gandicloud VPS
• Adventures in BSD (the author narrates experiences with a new installation of OpenBSD)

Artwork of the moment

Note from the editorial team

Hi, first I'd like to share my best wishes to everyone for 2022. I've been in touch with a few people willing to translate the webzine into other languages, this is absolutely great but at this time the webzine's workflow does not handle translation. I'll have to work on this to make the translations possible. I have been very busy in December; I did not have much time to work on this issue and this is noticeable both in delay and content, but at the same time the OpenBSD project has been quite quiet for the period.

Authors

Solène Rapenne, Vincent Finance, prx, pamela@ and other people who contributed outside of git that I may have forgotten. Many thanks to everyone involved and supportive of the idea!