LibreSSL

next beastie bit is really should have had its own news roundup item.

And that's a article over on the OpenBSD journal and LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 were released.

And the announcement

reads,

we have released LibreSSL 4.4.3 and 4.2.2, which are available in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror.

4.3.3 includes the following changes portable changes added support for building on mac os guard golden gate fixed incorrect code generation by the ms vc arm 64 optimizer allow overriding tls default ca file in cmake builds Remove relative distinguished names support from CRL distribution points.

Ensure verify callbacks always return one can see a host name mismatch.

There's a lot more other stuff that have occurred in 2.2 and 3.3.

It supports Intel Arc graphics, up to 64 virtual CPUs per guest, new RISC-V features, improved Wi-Fi drivers, and a larger AMD 64 kernel address space.

The release also includes LibreSSL 4.4.0, OpenSSH 10.6, updated packages, and new tools for networking, certificates, and system administration.

In the comments, the sentiment was largely positive about OpenBSD's stability, security design, documentation, and simple upgrade process.

Users debated whether the release artwork and song mocked artificial intelligence or showed that OpenBSD had embraced machine-generated slop.