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OpenBSD 5.3 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the time-to-dump-core dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today, OpenBSD 5.3 has been released. It has many improvements, updates, and new stuff. Also, OpenSMTPD 5.3 is included. This is the first version of OpenSMTPD considered to be ready for production. Many pre-built packages are available for many architectures. OpenBSD 5.3 ships with various Desktop Environments, including Gnome 3.6, KDE 3.5, and XFCE 4.10." And don't forget the release song, "Blade Swimmer."

3 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Let us rejoice! by cold+fjord · · Score: 3, Informative

    But seriously, it looks like a great set of improvements. It is also great to have a new stable choice for mail transfer.

    Subject: Announce: OpenSMTPD 5.3.1 released

    OpenSMTPD 5.3.1 has just been released and the archives are available at
    our main site: www.OpenSMTPD.org

    OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the SMTP protocol with some common
    extensions. It allows ordinary machines to exchange e-mails with systems
    speaking the SMTP protocol. It implements a fairly large part of RFC5321
    and can already cover a large range of use-cases.

    It runs on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, MacOSX and Linux.

    OpenSMTPD presentation is here.

    --
    much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
  2. my favorites by anarcat · · Score: 5, Informative

    My favorite improvements:

    * OpenSMTPd - can't have too many solid mail servers out there
    * OpenSSH 6.2 - new crypto algorithms and other goodies
    * pf improvements - sloppy state tracking for ICMP
    * relayd and OpenBGPd improvements

    now the question is: how long until those trickle down to sister projects like FreeBSD or Debian/kFreeBSD?

    --
    Semantics is the gravity of abstraction
  3. Re:and they said GNU was communist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is actually not the logo of OpenBSD but FreeBSD. I don't know why that logo is put there. The OpenBSD logo is more like this.