From deraadt@theos.com Wed Jun 4 22:18:21 1997 Path: news2.sra.co.jp!news.sra.co.jp!nf3.iij.ad.jp!nr0.iij.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!rim.or.jp!news.kddnet.ad.jp!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!coop.net!courtesan.com!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: OpenBSD 2.1 released Date: 2 Jun 1997 15:20:57 -0600 Organization: OpenBSD Lines: 108 Sender: millert@courtesan.com Approved: millert Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com Xref: news2.sra.co.jp comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:19 I am happy to announce the OpenBSD 2.1 release. This release continues the tradition from 2.0, adding even more fixes and improvements. A more complete (and in some ways nearly incomprehensible) list of the changes we have made since 2.0 is available for your reading pleasure at: http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus.html A rough summary of the highlights would be: Way more security fixes. Quite simply thousands of potential and real problems have been solved, like buffer overflows, /tmp races, and even protocol with other kinds of problems. Significant improvements towards POSIX compliance. This happened because the NIST test suite became free. Nearly all userland bugs reported against FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD had at least an attempt made at repair. (Normally the bugs were easy to fix). Many pieces of imported software updated. More use of cryptography, where suitable. Many additional bugs fixed as we discovered them. A (bootable) CD set will be available soon; keep your eye out for further information which will be posted to the same places as this announcement. (It takes a few days for boxes of real CD's with real artwork to be manufactured and shipped). Installation of the system has been improved a fair bit; most architectures can now be installed by simply booting a single install floppy (or the CD, but more on that later). That floppy will prepare the disks and then install the entire OS using a standard URL (ie. ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org or http://www.cs.colorado.edu/ftp/pub/OpenBSD) ---------------------------------------- This 2.1 release is available for eight architectures: alpha amiga arc i386 mac68k mvme68k pmax sparc For more information on these ports, check: http://www.OpenBSD.org/plat.html A few of these architectures are also supplied with X11R6. The release was actually delayed by a small amount of time since we wanted to ship with X11R6.3 and XFree86 3.3, both of which contain a number of security fixes. (As well, those of you who follow the BUGTRAQ mailing list might be pleased to know that our X11R6.3 trees were updated and rebuilt with fixes when those few new holes were discussed few days ago). Those architectures which include X11 are: amiga arc i386 mac68k (still coming) pmax sparc ---------------------------------------- The platform and X11 builders deserve credit for their efforts. Some of them had to build and test releases many, many, many times before they were just right: Gene Skonicki George Robbins John Stone Matthieu Herrb Michael Shuldman Niklas Hallqvist Per Fogelstrom Steven Campbell Theo de Raadt Thomas Graichen Todd Fries A special mention needs to go out to those who put lots of work into the installation tools: Todd Miller Thorsten Lockert Also, thanks a lot to everyone else who helped us test pre-releases. I would also like to say that I am extremely grateful towards all those who sent us bug reports and fixes since the last release; especially those who worked with us on security and cryptography issues. ---------------------------------------- For downloading information, check http://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@openbsd.org www.OpenBSD.org -- We're fixing security problems so you can sleep at night. (If it wasn't so fascinating I might get some sleep myself...) -- Todd C. Miller Sysadmin/Consultant Todd.Miller@courtesan.com From deraadt@theos.com Mon Jun 30 06:51:15 1997 Path: news2.sra.co.jp!news.sra.co.jp!nf3.iij.ad.jp!nr0.iij.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!rim.or.jp!news.kddnet.ad.jp!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!coop.net!courtesan.com!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: OpenBSD 2.1 CD's Date: 27 Jun 1997 14:41:57 -0600 Organization: OpenBSD Lines: 8 Approved: Todd.Miller@courtesan.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: xyzzy.courtesan.com Xref: news2.sra.co.jp comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:58 OpenBSD 2.1 CD's have started shipping. For more information, check http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html. ps. The money made from CD sales goes into sustaining the project. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@openbsd.org www.OpenBSD.org -- We're fixing security problems so you can sleep at night. (If it wasn't so fascinating I might get some sleep myself...)