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OpenBSD 5.7 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Right on schedule, OpenBSD 5.7 was released today, May 1, 2015. The theme of the 5.7 release is "Source Fish." There are some big changes in OpenBSD 5.7. The nginx httpd server was removed from base in favor of an internally developed httpd server in 5.7. BIND (named) was retired from base in 5.7 in favor of nsd(8) (authoritative DNS) and unbound(8) (recursive resolver). Packages will exist for BIND and nginx. This version includes a new control utility, rcctl(8), for managing daemons/services, USB 3 support and more. See a detailed log of changes between the 5.6 and 5.7 releases for more information. If you already have an OpenBSD 5.6 system, and do not want to reinstall, upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the Upgrade Guide. You can order the 5.7 CD set from the new OpenBSD Store and support the project.

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  1. Re:BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    According to comments on Slashdot 95% or so of Linux server admins have already switched or is in the process of switching to OpenBSD.

  2. Re:BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes it was. But so far no one has downloaded it. Even the Debian developers switched to OpenBSD because of Systemd.