New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx

Fortunately, sometimes the user facing the problematic hardware is an experienced developer like Ian Darwin, and he took the time to write up his experience in a blog post titled Un-hanging the HP Envy 17-DA0013dx for OpenBSD.

The article leads in with,

I recently acquired a lightly-used HP Envy 17" laptop, model DA0013dx, and of course wanted to run OpenBSD on it. It came with Windows 11 on an internal NVME drive. Booting OpenBSD from a USB device failed fast: it hung. To get there, first of course I had to disable "secure boot" in the BIOS.

and chronicles the steps until he reaches the conclusion,

Last words

If you want a modern laptop with a 16:9 touchscreen display to run OpenBSD, the HP Envy is not a bad choice.

If this sounds good to you, go on read the whole thing

openssh-10.6 released

The full text of the 10.6 release nodes reads:

OpenSSH 10.6 was released on 2026-10-06. It is available from the
mirrors listed at https://www.openssh.com/.

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol 2.0 implementation and
includes sftp client and server support.

Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security
bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with
AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have
security impact when considered in the context of a realistic
threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when
combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly
when accompanied by proposed fixes.

Read more…

LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released

The announcement reads,

List:       openbsd-announce
Subject:    LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released
From:       Brent Cook <busterb () gmail ! com>
Date:       2026-10-06 0:38:40

We have released LibreSSL 4.3.3 and 4.2.2, which are available in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror.

Read more…

Headers Up! What's New in httpd and relayd

As previously noted, Rafael Sadowski (radowski@) has been behind a recent pickup in development of httpd(8) and relayd(8).

Now Rafael has written a new piece, entitled Headers Up! What's New in httpd and relayd, on some of his recent work on httpd(8) and relayd(8).

Among the notable additions are expanded and improved filtering and pattern matching features which make it harder to make a case for putting something like nginx in front of your httpd(8) and relayd(8) setups.

So while we at Undeadly were making notes with a view to reporting on all these features, Rafael himself beat us to it.

His latest article is well worth reading, here.

OpenBGPD 9.3 released

In another hint that a new OpenBSD release is close, the OpenBGPD project has announced a new release of its software, version 9.3:

We have released OpenBGPD 9.3, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

    * Add shorthand for well-known "DOWNGRADE" BGP community.

    * Remove support old aspa-set table format that included per-provider AFI.
      Rpki-client stopped issuing those with the 8.5 release in July 2023.

    * Use getexecpath in the fork-and-execute privilege separation setup
      and implement portable shims for various other operating systems.

    * Various minor fixes:
       - Improve graceful restart timer handling for multi-AFI/SAFI sessions.
       - Clear the connected nexthop flag when nexthops and nexthops are
	 no longer connected.
       - Fix edge case where an ASPA table update was not applied because the
	 system erroneously thought the table did not change.

OpenBGPD-portable is known to compile and run on FreeBSD and the
Linux distributions Alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu.
It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt OpenBGPD-portable
to more distributions.

We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community.
Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release
possible.

OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current"

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) updated the version of OpenBSD -current from "8.0" to "8.0-current".

List:       openbsd-cvs
Subject:    CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
From:       Theo de Raadt <deraadt () cvs ! openbsd ! org>
Date:       2026-09-30 20:44:06
Message-ID: 93920a1f5b4035b8 () cvs ! openbsd ! org

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org	2026/09/30 14:44:06

Modified files:
	sys/conf       : newvers.sh 

Log message:
8.0 -current development

Thes means that those running the latest-and-greatest [via a sufficiently new snapshot or built from source] no longer need to use "-D snap" with pkg_add(1) (and pkg_info(1)).