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- OpenBSD 3.2 RELEASED -------------------------------------------------
Nov 1, 2002.
It is our pleasure to officially announce the release of OpenBSD
3.2. This is our 12th release on CD-ROM (and 13th via FTP). We
remain proud of OpenBSD's record of six years with only a single
remote hole in the default install. As in our previous releases,
3.2 provides significant improvements, including new features, in
nearly all areas of the system:
- Improved hardware support (http://www.OpenBSD.org/plat.html)
o Asymmetric and symmetric hardware encryption support is enabled
by default if a supported crypto accelerator is present.
o Improved frame buffer and X Window System performance on the sparc,
sparc64, and alpha platforms.
o Builtin AGP-based video on i386 machines using ALI, AMD, Intel, SiS,
and VIA chipsets is now supported and usable by the X Window System.
o Intel Gigabit Ethernet adapters are now supported by the em(4)
driver which replaces the gx(4) driver. The em(4) driver supports
more models and has better performance than the old gx(4) driver.
o Fixed a stability problem with the twe(4) driver and some UDMA drives.
o Added support for more PCI-based Cyclades serial boards.
o IDE disks larger than 128GB and UDMA133 are now supported.
o Updated isp(4) and siop(4) SCSI drivers.
o Added support for sbus-PCMCIA bridges on the sparc64 platform.
o The wi(4) driver (Wavelan, Prism, and Symbol 802.11b) now works
on the sparc64 platform.
o DMA handling in the hme(4) driver has been fixed.
- Major improvements in the pf packet filter, including:
o New "antispoof" keyword: spoofing protection made easy.
o Much simplified filter rule language.
o Extended filtering capabilities.
o All known bugs with filtering bridged interfaces have been fixed.
o It is now possible to control state table entries with a per-r...
