(fwd) OpenBSD 2.5 RELEASED

Andrey Gerzhov (kittle@freeland.alex-ua.com)
Sun, 23 May 1999 16:27:54 +0300 (EEST)

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Subject: OpenBSD 2.5 RELEASED
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Hi!

> Получил сегодня письмо:
> Subject: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE now available.

Раз такое дело, то:

- OpenBSD 2.5 RELEASED -------------------------------------------------

May 19, 1999.

We are quite pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 2.5.
This marks another milestone along the path our developers started on
more than three years ago by providing significant new improvements in
nearly all areas of the system:

- Hardware support is improved (http://www.OpenBSD.org/plat.html)
- particularily in the i386 and sparc ports.

- Security is strengthened even more (http://www.OpenBSD.org/security.html)
- a bunch more security problems have been solved since 2.4
- and some other proactive measures have been taken
- new filtered network bridging support

- Even more cryptography is integrated (http://www.OpenBSD.org/crypto.html)
- A shared SSL library is now integrated into 2.5, and httpd automatically
uses it to supply HTTPS services. (By default only DSA support, but RSA
support is trivially added by installing the RSA-capable libssl shared
library package).
- ARLA client-side AFS is integrated and improved
- IPSEC support has improved significantly, and includes an IKE daemon.

- Many other bugs fixed (http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus25.html)

- The "ports" tree is greatly improved (http://www.OpenBSD.org/ports.html)
- The 2.5 CD ships with many more pre-built packages for the common
architectures

- Many new features
- nearly complete pthread support
- significant improvements to IPSEC and AFS

If you'd like to see a list of what has changed between OpenBSD 2.4 and
2.5, look at
http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus25.html

Even though the list is a summary of the most important changes
made to OpenBSD, it still is a very very long list -- almost 500 major
changes.

This is our sixth OpenBSD release, and the fifth release which is
available on our own CDROM. Our releases have been spaced six months
apart, and we plan to continue this timing.

........

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         Anton Vinokurov, ALV-RIPN
         anton@inorg.chem.msu.ru ICQ:29041781








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