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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. Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice to see these guys continually putting out good stuff. There also seems to be a Google Summer of Code to get the HAMMER2 filesystem in OpenBSD. If this happens I can definitely see swtiching our systems over to OpenBSD from Linux. We have been waiting for a real filesystem with checksumming, compression and deduplication features in OpenBSD for some time now.

  2. Re:New HTTP daemon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    nginx is still available as a port, as well as apache.

  3. Re:New HTTP daemon by brynet · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not a "half-finished" server, it's a new server written using OpenBSD's existing development practices, sharing code with relayd(8) in base. For OpenBSD httpd(8), 'featuritis' is being avoided so that the codebase remains simple and maintainable.

    https://github.com/reyk/httpd/...

    I've never heard of Hiawatha, but the GPL licencing makes it inappropriate for the base system. It is available as a package and in the ports, along with nginx and many other servers.

  4. Re:New HTTP daemon by brynet · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenBSD's httpd(8) supports HTTP redirects, and it certainly seems possible to redirect requests to i.e: php-fpm.

            location "*.php" {
                    fastcgi socket "/path/to/php-fpm.sock"
            }

            location "/" {
                    block return 301 "/index.php"
            }

    Reyk Floeter (reyk@) has a Wiki with some additional example configurations, contribute more:

    https://github.com/reyk/httpd/...