OpenBSD 7.6 Released (phoronix.com)
(Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:30PM (BeauHD)
from the new-and-improved dept.)
- Reference: 0175222003
- News link: https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/24/10/09/2038229/openbsd-76-released
- Source link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.6-Released
Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports:
> OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system [1]with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements . There are a ton of changes to find with the just-released OpenBSD 7.6.
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> Some of the new OpenBSD 7.6 features include:
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> - OpenBSD 7.6 provides initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite (X1E80100) SoCs. The 7.6 release also has initial Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge boot support in ACPI mode with OpenBSD 7.6.
> - ARM64 has additional CPU security mitigations with Spectre-V4 now in place on ARM64 and adding Spectre-BHB for Cortex-A57 cores.
> - OpenBSD 7.6 on RISC-V now supports the Milk-V Pioneer board.
> - OpenBSD 7.6 on AMD64 has finally implemented support for AVX-512.
> - Various SMP kernel improvements.
You can view the full list of features and download the OpenBSD 7.6 release via [2]OpenBSD.org .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.6-Released
[2] https://www.openbsd.org/76.html
> OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system [1]with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements . There are a ton of changes to find with the just-released OpenBSD 7.6.
>
> Some of the new OpenBSD 7.6 features include:
>
> - OpenBSD 7.6 provides initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite (X1E80100) SoCs. The 7.6 release also has initial Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge boot support in ACPI mode with OpenBSD 7.6.
> - ARM64 has additional CPU security mitigations with Spectre-V4 now in place on ARM64 and adding Spectre-BHB for Cortex-A57 cores.
> - OpenBSD 7.6 on RISC-V now supports the Milk-V Pioneer board.
> - OpenBSD 7.6 on AMD64 has finally implemented support for AVX-512.
> - Various SMP kernel improvements.
You can view the full list of features and download the OpenBSD 7.6 release via [2]OpenBSD.org .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.6-Released
[2] https://www.openbsd.org/76.html
No new song? (Score:2)
by Opyros ( 1153335 )
There [1]doesn't appear [openbsd.org] to have been a new song since 7.3!
[1] https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
How well..... (Score:1)
Does wine run?
Re: (Score:2)
It runs securely.