emulators/wine (re)entering OpenBSD ports
talking not about the beverage, but the Windows Emulator that enables running binaries for that operating system on other systems.
Among the editors there is no one with enough recent Windows exposure to comment seriously on this, but we do vaguely remember that a port of this software existed back in the day.
So if this falls withing the things you are interested in or actually need, we would encourage you to read the entire emulators/wine thread and the later supplement on new port: emulators/wine-extras: scripts for winetricks and wine-steam to keep up to date on developments.
ports@
mailing list, Thomas Frohwein (
thfr@
) leads in,
In what might the most surprising port proposal of the year, I'm proud
to present a new port for wine.
undeadly rss
Theo de Raadt (
deraadt@) has
committed
to -current
a (WIP) new utility for updating system databases:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2026/10/20 19:08:58
Added files:
usr.sbin/dbupdate: Makefile dbupdate.8 dbupdate.sh
Log message:
initial draft of dbupdate(8) for updating (signed) zoneinfo and cert.pem
from a new cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/dbupdates/ directory. We can't
do this nicely with syspatch(8) because it requires patches in sequence
so a new tool had to be written. It is intentionally kept very simple
so that it can be studied because we intend to run this in root cron,
(the non-simple parts figure out quickly when not to update).
looked at by sthen beck lucas dgl
The OpenBSD project has
announced
OpenBSD 8.0,
its 61st release. The new release
contains a number of significant improvements, including but certainly
not limited to:
In addition, this release offers a number of bug fixes and as well as numerous improvements in hardware support.
See the
full changelog
for more details of the changes made over this latest six month
development cycle. The
Installation Guide
details how to get the system up and running with a fresh install,
while those who already run earlier releases should follow the
Upgrade Guide,
in most cases using
Readers are encouraged to celebrate the new release by
donating
to the project to support further development of our favourite OS!
OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space is now 512GB [See earlier report]amd64 and arm64 when available) to increase speed of swap encryption/decryption [See commit]OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform has been retired [See earlier report]getexecpath(3) added [See commit]drm(4) has been updated to Linux 6.18.53vmm(4)/vmd(8) improvements:syslogd(8) privileged and non-privileged parts now separate binaries [See earlier report]qwz(4) driver for Qualcomm Technologies WCN7850 wireless network devices added [See commit]httpd(8) and smtpd(8) are now randomly relinked at boot [See earlier report]httpd(8) has seen many improvements:
relayd(8) has received several improvements:patterns(7) [See earlier report]rtrd(8), a RTR-To-Router protocol daemon, and its control program, rtrctl(8), were imported [See earlier report]acme-client(1) gained support for external account binding [See commit]rpki-client(8) [See earlier reports]tmux(1) gained support for floating panes [See commit]llvm/clang(1)/lld(1) updated to version 22.1.6 [See earlier report]sysupgrade(8).
Version 0.130
of Game of Trees
has been released (and the port
updated). Complete release notes are as follows:
In a post to tech@, Jan Schreiber submitted a driver for USB network control mode, uncm(4). Jan writes:
I noticed newer Android devices (since Android 6 if I'm not mistaken)
do not use urndis(4) for USB tethering any more.
They now use CDC NCM which is missing a driver in OpenBSD.
Below is my first go at it.
I moved some defines and structs out of mbim.h into usbcdc.h
to not include everything for mobile broadband. (No functional change
for umb(4)).