As per the schedule, OpenBSD 5.5 was released today, May 1, 2014.
The theme of the 5.5 release is "Wrap in Time", which represents a significant achievement of changing time_t to int64_t on all platforms, as well as ensuring that all of the 8k+ OpenBSD ports still continue to build and work properly, thus doing all the heavy lifting and paving the way for all other operating systems to make the transition to 64-bit time an easier task down the line.
Signed releases and packages and the new signify utility are another big selling point of 5.5, as well as OpenSSH 6.6, which includes lots of DJB crypto like chacha20-poly1305, plus lots of other goodies.
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(Score: 1) by Valkor on Thursday May 01 2014, @09:32PM
I'm still going to celebrate the epoch rollover. YOU CAN'T STOP ME.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @10:13PM
Just kidding.
Glad it most likely will never be there.
(Score: 3, Informative) by cnst on Thursday May 01 2014, @10:49PM
Were you kidding that you were just kidding?
Because systemd is coming to OpenBSD, courtesy of Google.
http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/gsoc2014.html#sys temd [openbsdfoundation.org]
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2014042 9034300 [undeadly.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Thursday May 01 2014, @11:02PM
This isn't the full SystemD, the monster that takes over the entire machine.
This is just planning to provide APIs and System Calls that ported programs have to use in SystemD systems.
The APIs that apps rely on are mostly informational, such as hostnamed, timedated, localed, logind.
These calls need not actually take over BSD functionality like they did in Linux, they simply allow application level programs find out the hostname, time and date, etc.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @11:37PM
Just about spit coffee all over when I read other reply.
Thanks for the clarification...can sleep well again.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday May 02 2014, @04:39AM
yes, google is easing into being evil. most of google is still in the 'only slightly evil' stage. in a couple of years, when more of it upgrades to the 'mostly evil' stage, most of systemd will be jammed into openbsd.
(Score: 2) by tomtomtom on Friday May 02 2014, @10:30AM
hostnamed? Seriously? What is wrong with the standard C library function gethostname()? (Same goes for the rest of them too)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Subsentient on Friday May 02 2014, @12:15AM
Yeah, I hate google. Also, I am about done porting Epoch to OpenBSD, actually: http://github.com/Subsentient/epoch/commits [github.com]
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