OpenBSD 7.3
OpenBSD 7.3 is released. While most of the improvements are not specific to Power ISA, there's a lot we benefit from, including many kernel calls which are now "lock-free" (improving SMP performance) like mmap(2) and select(2), more device support, immutable permissions on address ranges to prevent permissions from being changed in the future — much of a running program's static address space like stack, code and most libraries is now automatically immutable — and support for execute-only memory on both Power ISA and the PowerPC 970 ("G5"). LibreSSL is updated to 3.7.2, OpenSSH is updated to 9.3, and the OS ships with LLVM/clang 13.0.0 and Perl 5.36.0. Download and install when ready, Puffy.
Have you tested OpenBSD 7.3 on POWER ISA yet, or do you know anyone who has shared their experiences? I would enjoy reading about it.
ReplyDeleteFreeBSD 13.2 as well ;-)
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