Theo de Raadt <deraadt <at> openbsd.org> writes: > so thanks for your suggestion. have you ever noticed how suggestions > are taken less seriously when they are not formatted as a diff?
--- 59.html.orig Thu Feb 18 11:45:24 2016 +++ 59.html Thu Feb 18 12:03:29 2016 @@ -100,21 +100,21 @@ <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> no longer exits if a desired route cannot be added. It now just reports the fact. <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> now takes a much more careful approach to received packets to ensure only received data is used to process the packet. Packets with incorrect length information or lacking appropriate header information are now dropped. <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> again disables pending timeouts if the interface link is lost, preventing endless retries at obtaining a lease. - <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> was pledged. <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> again properly utilizes default- lease-time, max-lease-time and bootp-lease-time options. - <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> was pledged. <li>... </ul> <p> <li>Security improvements: <ul> - <li>... + <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/? query=pledge">pledge(2)</a>, a new subsystem for restricting operations in programs, was added. + <li>More than 200 daemons and programs was pledged, among them: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8), <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi- bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/? query=pdisk§ion=8&arch=macppc">pdisk(8)</a>. <li>Support for looking up hosts via YP has been removed from libc. The 'yp' lookup method in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=resolv.conf&sektion=5">resolv.conf</a> is no longer available. <li>Support for the HOSTALIASES environment variable has been removed from libc. + <li>... </ul> <p> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ <li>doas is a little friendlier to use <li>Updated flex <li>Updated and improved less - <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD- current/man8/macppc/pdisk.8?query=pdisk">pdisk(8)</a> was largely rewritten and pledged. + <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/? query=pdisk§ion=8&arch=macppc">pdisk(8)</a> was largely rewritten. <li>Renaming files in the root directory of a MSDOS filesystem was fixed. <li>Many obsolete <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi- bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man5/disktab.5?query=disktab">disktab(5)</a> attributes and entries were removed. <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD- current/man4/softraid.4?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a> volumes now correctly look for the disklabel in the first OpenBSD disk partition, not the last. @@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now has a '-b' flag that specifies the size of the EFI System partition to create. <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now has a '-v' flag that causes a verbose display of both MBR and GPT information. <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now provides full interactive GPT editing. - <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi? query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> was pledged. <li>Disks with sector sizes other than 512 bytes can now be partitioned with a GPT. <li>The GPT kernel option was removed and GPT support is part of all GENERIC and GENERIC derived kernels. <li>Many improvements were made to the GPT kernel support to ensure safe and reliable operation of GPT and MBR processing.