14 DAY TRIAL // The OpenBSD 6.1 operating system was officially announced today, April 11, 2017, by developer Theo de Raadt. It's a major release that adds support for new platforms, new hardware, and lots of up-to-date components.
OpenBSD 6.1 comes seven months after the release of OpenBSD 6.0, and while it's a point release, it adds numerous improvements, such as support for the ARM64 (AArch64) hardware architecture, an extra layer of performance to the ARMv7 platform, support for systems with Loongson 3A CPUs and RS780E chipsets.
A lot of new drivers were added as well in this massive update of OpenBSD, adding support for Loongson 3A PCI host bridges, Hyper-V networking interfaces, OMAP pin multiplexing and wake-up generators, Hyper-V guest Nexus device, ACPI Smart Battery devices, as well as ACPI ambient light sensor devices.
Kaby Lake support is implemented as well in OpenBSD 6.1, along with support for Lewisburg PCH Ethernet MACs with I219 PHYs, support for RTL8153 USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet-based devices, support for X550 family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet-based devices, and better ACPI support for Apple's latest Macs.
Updated applications, improved components
Lots of IEEE 802.11 wireless and generic network stack, installer, routing daemons and other userland network, vmm(4), vmd(8), dhclient(8), dhcpd(8), and dhcrelay(8), as well as security improvements are also present in the OpenBSD 6.1 release, which comes with various updated components.
These include OpenSMTPD 6.0.0, OpenSSH 7.4, LibreSSL 2.5.3, mandoc 1.14.1, X.Org 7.7, Mesa 13.0.6, GCC 4.2.1, LLVM/Clang 4.0.0, Perl 5.24.1, Unbound 1.6.1, GNU Binutils 2.17, Ncurses 5.7, NSD 4.1.15, GDB 6.3, Expat 2.1.1, TeX Live 2015, PHP 5.5.38, 5.6.30, and 7.0.16, Chromium 57.0, AFL 2.39b, Mutt 1.8.0, Node.js 6.10.1, and Xfce 4.12.
Apps like LibreOffice 5.2.4.2, GIMP 2.8.18, Mozilla Firefox 52.0.2 ESR, Emacs 21.4 and 25.1, GHC 7.10.3, Groff 1.22.3, OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.44, PostgreSQL 9.6.2, MariaDB 10.0.30, Mono 4.6.2.6, and Mozilla Thunderbird 45.8.0 are also included. You can download OpenBSD 6.1 right now from our website.