For those unfamiliar with the process: this is not the 7.4 release, but is part of the standard build-up to the release.
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Hetzner introduced its Ampere Altra powered arm64-based cloud servers earlier this year, making it possible to easily run OpenBSD/arm64 on their platform. The only caveat for now is that the viogpu(4) driver is required, which was committed by jcs@ in April 2023 and thus only available in snapshots. It will first appear in OpenBSD 7.4.
Errata patches for npppd have been released for OpenBSD 7.2 and 7.3. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
EuroBSDCon 2023 has now ended, and slides for many of the OpenBSD developer presentations are now available in the usual place.Video of the presentations can be expected somewhat later.
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge, Unix Recovery Legend, Useful Unix commands for data science, Tarsnap outage post-mortem, OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31, and more.
Can you really do 3D printing from OpenBSD? Cue suspenseful music whilst I formulate my answer, which is: Yes.
HardenedBSD 14-STABLE is now officially a thing. Haven't seen any changelog, yet. Installers are at https://installers.hardenedbsd.org/pub/14-stable/ and package builder at https://hbsd-pkg-14-stable-01.hardenedbsd.org/index.html.
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The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature, The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace, Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed, OPNsense 23.7 released, illumos gets a new C compiler, fixing Thinkpad X1 WIFI on FreeBSD, and more.
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems.