OpenBSD taking 3.4 pre-orders!

Saturday, September 06 2003 @ 09:35 PM EST

Contributed by: Anonymous

Pre-orders for the <a href="http://www.OpenBSD.org>OpenBSD</a> project's latest release, 3.4, are now being taken. This release will ship around November 1st.

Significant enhancements have been made in this release, including i386 switch to ELF executable format, further W^X improvements for i386, ld.so on ELF platforms now loads libraries in a random order for greater resistance to attacks, inclusion of a static bounds checker to the compiler for basic checks on functions which accept buffers and sizes, strcpy/strcat function audit to replace with safer strlcpy/strlcat, ProPolice stack protection in the kernel, further manual page cleanups, large number of bug fixes and optimizations to the packet filter (PF) including packet tagging, stateful TCP normalization, passive OS detection, SYN proxy, and adaptive state timeouts, and many other improvements to the rest of the system.

Order a CD from the OpenBSD store:
http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html

For information on this release including new features:
http://www.openbsd.org/34.html

For a changelog between 3.3 and 3.4:
http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html

Ordering a CD helps support the project, as a bonus you get cool stickers, artwork, and an audio track!

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