OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge
Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak
HANDS ON Even after 60 releases, to borrow Carlsberg's slogan, OpenBSD is probably the most secure FOSS Unix-like OS in the world.
OpenBSD 7.9 arrived just a couple of days afterproject lead Theo de Raadt's birthday. Our congratulations to both. Thelast four months or so have seen the fastest succession of securityissues in Linux that we can remember in the project's existence so far,but OpenBSD sails on serenely.
Back in March, Anthropic announced thatits Claude Mythos LLM had found a successful OpenBSD attack – but itwasn't a hole. A TCP/IP packet with malformed SelectiveAcknowledgement options could crash the kernel. This was a realproblem, and the bug that caused it went back 27 years, but it doesn'tlet anyone in. The OpenBSD developers had already included a fixfor the bugtwo weeks earlier, so OpenBSD 7.8...
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