Release

OpenBSD 7.6

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.6 released

The 57th Release of OpenBSD was announced. My Upgrade Script is available here.

Highlights

  • UDP parallel input has been enabled
  • pfctl(8) and systat(1) now display fragment reassembly statistics
  • dhcp6leased(8), a DHCPv6 client daemon for IPv6 PD has been added
  • and lot more

see the Post on Undeadly for more Details, or the OpenBSD Page …

Script

doas su -
cd /root
ftp https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/{.helpers,upgrade_to_76.sh}
chmod u+x upgrade_to_76.sh

Execute

do the Upgrade

OpenBSD 7.5

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.5 finally released

The 56th Release of OpenBSD was announced. My Upgrade Script is available here.

Highlights

  • added support for various new hardware, numerous performance improvements and of course security enhancements.
  • IPv6 support in ppp(4)

see the Post on Undeadly for more Details, or the OpenBSD Page …

Script

doas su -
cd /root
ftp https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/{.helpers,upgrade_to_75.sh}
chmod u+x upgrade_to_75.sh

Execute

do the Upgrade

./upgrade_to_75.sh

after the reboot

Upgrade Packages

just run the Script again

OpenBSD 7.4

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.4 finally released

Today, the 55th Release of OpenBSD was announced. My Upgrade Script is available here.

Highlights

  • vmd(8) has moved to a multi-process model for virtio(4) block and network devices
  • malloc(3) now has built-in leak detection
  • In OpenSSH 9.5, ssh-kengen(1) generates Ed25519 keys by default
  • sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs

see the Post on Undeadly for more Details, or the OpenBSD Page …

Script

doas su -
cd /root
ftp https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/.helpers
ftp https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/upgrade_to_74.sh
chmod u+x upgrade_to_74.sh

Execute

do the Upgrade

OpenBSD 7.3

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.3 finally released.

Today, the 54th Release of OpenBSD was announced. The Upgrade Script is available here …

one cool thing to mention:

  • Added initial support in the installer for guided disk encryption for amd64, i386, riscv64 and sparc64.

Script

as root

cd /root
ftp https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/.helpers
ftp https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/upgrade_to_73.sh
chmod u+x upgrade_to_73.sh

Execute

./upgrade_to_73.sh
Any Comments ?

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OpenBSD 7.2

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.2 finally released.

Yesterday, the 53th Relase of OpenBSD got publised, the [Version 7.2)(https://www.openbsd.org/72.html). I’ll upgrade my boxes as usual with the following Script. The most obvious change is the Performance improvement for the Package Mangager, but there is always so more see undeadly

Upgrade Guide

As usual, follow to official Upgrade Guide. You can Upgrade with an USB Stick, ISO Image, PXE Boot or inline (from a running system).

As with other Versions, i have my own upgrade Script for upgrading all my boxes. Use it at your own risk and test it somewhere before you do this on your productive environment.

OpenBSD 7.2 - Compare

OpenBSD

there are a few Weeks until OpenBSD 7.2 will get released. Anyhow, running current is a good way to get a “preview” what’s in the pipeline and will come soon.

one of the painpoint was update packages on OpenBSD. Not because it was difficult, but it took quite a lot of time. Specially, when you run a bunch of machines in different networks.

Version and Time consumption

sysctl kern.version
pkg_info |wc -l
time pkg_add -Vu

OpenBSD 7.1 - Box 1

root@puffy202 RD:0 /bin# sysctl kern.version
kern.version=OpenBSD 7.1 (GENERIC.MP) #3: Sun May 15 10:27:01 MDT 2022

root@puffy202 RD:0 /bin# pkg_info |wc -l
     188

root@puffy202 RD:0 /bin# time pkg_add -Vu

    2m07.46s real     0m14.82s user     0m09.70s system

OpenBSD 7.1 - Box 2

root@puffy203 RD:0 # sysctl kern.version
kern.version=OpenBSD 7.1 (GENERIC.MP) #3: Sun May 15 10:27:01 MDT 2022

root@puffy203 RD:0 # pkg_info |wc -l
     214

root@puffy203 RD:0 # time pkg_add -Vu

    2m17.13s real     0m43.37s user     0m28.07s system

OpenBSD 7.2-Beta - Box 3

root@puffy204-current RD:0 # sysctl kern.version
kern.version=OpenBSD 7.2-beta (GENERIC.MP) #650: Tue Jul 26 08:30:28 MDT 2022

root@puffy204-current RD:0 # pkg_info |wc -l
     206

root@puffy204-current RD:0 # time pkg_add -Vu

    0m09.65s real     0m07.92s user     0m00.31s system

Did you see the difference ?

OpenBSD 7.1

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.1 released !

… a while ago. I upgraded all my boxes since quite a while, but i didn’t write a short post about it. There is nothing really unexpected, a stable, easy, straigh-forward development of my favourite OS, except that there is a need for more than 1G Free Disk Space in /var. That was a bit a problem for smalled Boxes like the APU with 16G Disk …

OpenBSD 7.0

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.0 released !

the 7.0 Release was released on 14. Oct 2021, two weeks before the official Launch Date (1. Nov).

All the Changes are listed here: https://www.openbsd.org/70.html, or summarized: undeadly.org

Things i have to consider for my Boxes:

Upgrade Guide

Follow to official Upgrade Guide. You can Upgrade with an USB Stick, ISO Image, PXE Boot or inline (from a running system).

OpenBSD 6.9

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 6.9 released

This is the 50th Release of OpenBSD ! As they release twice a Year, must be around 25y ago since the fork of NetBSD started. Wikipedia has got a Comparison of the Different BSD Operating Systems …

release 6.9

Upgrade to 6.9

i upgrade my systems twice every years. there is no need to reinstall as the upgrade works fine over year. please read the official upgrade guide carefully and then you may wanna use this script below. use it on your own risk and test it somewhere before you do this on your productive environment.

OpenBSD 6.8

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 6.8 released

OpenBSD has two new releases every year. historically, on 1. Mai and 1. November. With a few small execptions in the past Check Wikipedia

so, then latest OS appeared today: OpenBSD 6.8

Perform a Full Upgrade (incl. X Stuff)

sysupgrade -r

Run the Script (on your own risk !)

doas su -
mkdir /root/bin
ftp -o /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/upgrade_to_68.sh
chmod 740 /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh
# /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh
# *** reboot ***
# /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh
# rm /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh

or use some custom Script (just Xbase and not other X Stuff)

doas su -
mkdir /root/bin

cat << 'EOF' > /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh
#!/bin/sh

prepare () {

  echo "let's upgrade to 6.8 ..."

  rm -f /usr/lib/libperl.a

  rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libxkbui.*
  rm /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig/xkbui.pc
  rm /usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions/XKBui.h

}

download() {

  local _response=$(sysupgrade -n)

  if [[ $_response == *reboot ]]; then
    echo "\nInstalled! Let's reboot ...\n"
    rm /home/_sysupgrade/{comp,xf,xs}*
  else
    echo "Nothing todo ..."
  fi

}

install() {
  reboot
}

postwork() {

  echo "let's do some postwork after upgrade to 6.8 ..."

  cd /dev
  ./MAKEDEV all

  _boot=$(mount |awk -F'[/ ]' '/ on \/ / {print $3}')
  installboot ${_boot%?}

  sysmerge

  fw_update

  syspatch

  pkg_add -Vu

  pkg_delete -a

  /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb &

}

# Main
local _ver=$(uname -r)

if [ "$_ver" == "6.7" ]; then

  prepare
  download
  install

elif [ "$_ver" == "6.8" ]; then

  postwork

fi

exit 0
EOF

chmod 740 /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh
# /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh
# *** reboot ***
# /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh
# rm /root/bin/upgrade_to_68.sh

Checks

you should do a few checks afterwards: