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OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge
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Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak.
Key facts
- Version 7.9 includes GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.6, MATE 1.28, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.2, and various more minimal window managers
- The Reg FOSS desk has been exploring OpenBSD since version 7.1 in 2022, including 7.2, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, and 7.8
- Version upgrades include LibreSSL 4.3.0, OpenSSH 10.3, and many improvements to the Berkeley Packet Filter ( bpf ) and Packet Filter firewall ( pf ), including source and state limiters
- On x86-64 machines, which it terms amd64, 7.9 now supports a maximum of 255 processor cores, and fixes a bug on machines with over 512 GB of RAM
Summary
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 a couple of days after project lead Theo de Raadt's birthday. Back in March, Anthropic announced that its Claude Mythos LLM had found a successful OpenBSD attack, but it wasn't a hole. The new features in version 7.9 are relatively modest.