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OpenBSD 5.5 Released

posted by NCommander on Thursday May 01 2014, @09:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-there-was-much-rejoicing dept.

cnst writes:

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: 4, Interesting) by Subsentient on Friday May 02 2014, @12:15AM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Friday May 02 2014, @12:15AM (#38694) Homepage Journal

    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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