OpenBSD AmsterdamOct 8, 2024

The 57th OpenBSD release is out there now!

There are tons of fixes, additions and general nicenessess. We, are mostly looking forward to all the VMM/VMD improvements made by Dave, @mlarkin and others!

You can find all the goodies on: https://www.openbsd.org/76.html

Announcement: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=172833332925186&w=2

Start your upgrade engines! OpenBSD Amsterdam upgrades will be scheduled as soon as the first errata is out.

Happy upgrading!!

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OpenBSD 7.6

OpenBSD 7.6

Bryan Steele Oct 1, 2024

Is it perhaps time for some #OpenBSD #76HYPE! ​

#OpenBSD 7.6 has a cool new bootloader feature, configurable in boot.conf(5), "machine idle [secs]", which will poweroff your machine when idling at the bootloader.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/112333726672623664

A longstanding issue with MSI interrupts in OpenBSD's azalia(4) audio driver on AMD chipsets has been fixed!

https://bsd.network/@brynet/112458299293388956

OpenBSD 7.6 will have some support for many Snapdragon X Elite laptops, starting with patrick@'s initial bringup on the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x ~24 hours after the new hardware launched, also:

• ThinkPad T14s
• Asus Vivobook S15
• Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge
• HP OmniBook X

https://bsd.network/@brynet/112645328344890243

Hardware accelerated video decode/encode (VA-API) support was added, libva imported.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/112813702107946930

Jonathan Gray (jsg@) backported support for Intel Meteor Lake (14th Gen) graphics, drm drivers to Linux 6.6.y/6.6.52, from 6.6.19.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/112952017130589350

System call pinning "pinsyscalls(2)" is now mandatory.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/112997987653463724

Many common USB mice should no longer constantly detach/reattach, spamming the console.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/113034445342767163

AMD #SEV encrypted memory guests in #OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8), added by Hans-Jörg Höxer (hshoexer@)

https://bsd.network/@brynet/113119843773088900

It's now possible to get some NVMe controller/namespace information on #OpenBSD using bioctl(8), as well as useful NVMe SMART data, like temperature, available spare sectors, device endurance via sysctl(1).

https://bsd.network/@brynet/113130520504973726

OpenBSD 7.6 has initial suspend-to-idle (S0/S0ix) "s2idle" support on amd64

https://bsd.network/@brynet/113177313717726815

..and much more for users to discover in the 7.6 release! ​

Bryan Steele :flan_beard: (@[email protected])

Ever have your laptop unhibernate in your bag? E.g: lid accidentally open, or hit the power button (e.g: side-mounted button), and drain your battery? #OpenBSD -current has cool new bootloader feature, configurable in boot.conf(5), "machine idle [secs]", which will poweroff your machine when idling at the bootloader. Note: This is only supported on EFI machines, and when using disk encryption. > kn@ modified src/sys/*: Add boot.conf(8) 'mach idle [secs]' to halt at idle passphrase prompts > > Enable users to power down their machines if there was no input after N seconds during disk descryption. > > Motivation is to save battery and prevent pocket heaters when notebooks unhibernate (e.g. lid accidentally opened) and sit at "Passphrase: ". > > Only available on efi(4) systems as the timeout is saved as EFI variable; mostly because that's trivial to do, but also because we lack a better mechanism to configure that and persist such data without the root disk. > > Discussed with many, starting at h2k23 > OK Tests gnezdo

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