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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."

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  1. 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