OpenBSD 6.6 Released Early

OpenBSD's second of its biannual releases came early again this year with the release of OpenBSD 6.6 last week; while this post comes late.

For anyone who isn't yet aware, Theo's announcement came a few days ago on Thursday, October 17 to the relevant mailing lists.

Among the many changes are:

  • sysupgrade(8): an automatic upgrade utility that performs release and snapshot upgrades with one command
  • LibreSSL 3.0.2: a new release of the project's OpenSSL fork
  • sshsig: a minimal signature and verification utility for ssh-keygen(1)
  • OpenSSH 8.1: a new release of the project's ubiquitous ssh protocol implementation …
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