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May 1, 2008.
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3.

This is our 23nd release on CD-ROM (and 24rd via FTP).  We remain

proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote

holes in the default install.
As in our previous releases, 4.3 provides significant improvements,

including new features, in nearly all areas of the system:
- New/extended platforms:

    o OpenBSD/sparc64.

      SMP support. This should work on all supported systems, with

      the exception of the Sun Enterprise 10000.

    o OpenBSD/hppa.

      K-class servers like the K200 and K410 are supported now.

    o OpenBSD/mvme88k

      SMP support on MVME188 and MVME188A systems.

      88110 processor, and thus MVME197LE/SP/DP boards, are supported now.

    o OpenBSD/sgi.

      Contains many new drivers, however the kernel requires an important

      errata fix.
- Improved hardware support, including:

    o The bge(4) driver now supports BCM5906/BCM5906M 10/100 and BCM5755

      10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.

    o The cas(4) driver now supports Cassini+ 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.

    o The em(4) driver now supports ICH9 10/100 and 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet

      devices.

    o The gem(4) driver now supports the onboard 1000base-SX interface on

      the Sun Fire V880 server.

    o The ixgb(4) driver now supports the Sun 10Gb PCI-X Ethernet devices.

    o The msk(4) driver now supports Yukon FE+ 10/100 and Yukon Supreme

      10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.

    o The nfe(4) driver now supports MCP73, MCP77 and MCP79 10/100/Gigabit

      Ethernet devices.

    o The ral(4) driver now supports RT2800 based wireless network devices.

    o The cmpci(4) driver now supports CMI8768 based audio adapters.

    o The it(4) driver now supports ITE IT8705F/8712F/8716F/8718F/8726F and

      SiS SiS950 ICs. Watchdog timer functionality added.

    o The mfi(4) driver now supports Dell CERC6/PERC6 and LS...
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Congratulations and many thanks to all of you! OpenBSD is amazing

version by version.
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Thanks,

Jordi Espasa Clofent

Cool! I was waiting this moment from August 2007, when I bought my new

computer with ICH9 (-: So I am going to order OpenBSD 4.3!
Thanks to all developers!
Borja Tarraso

Thanks Theo and all for another release.
You'll have to find a volunteer to make the ftp servers support OpenSTP for

next release ;-)
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Mark Mathias

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Ok, so to clarify, I was running a snapshot on my macppc machine.
I've been finding it a bit slow, but nice enough, bnut with the release

"realeased" as it were, I should now rebuild the kernel/userland to

incorporate the changes?
Sorry if this is in the FAQ somewhere, I've been unable to find it.
Cheers
Rich Healey

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ok, this is very rough and coarse, but..
if your snap was early march, then you can "upgrade" to release.

if your snap was late march, then it is probably ahead of "release"

(that is to say, some "current" beyond "4.3 release") so you would

want to reinstall.  (downgrade, as it were.)  snapshots are twitchy

things, if you use them you really need to pay close attention to

what is going on.
cel
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Christopher Linn <celinn at mtu.edu>  | By no means shall either the CEC

System Administrator II               | or MTU be held in any way liable

  Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I

    Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Rich Healey wrote:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html
Nick.

Well, it should work if your snapshot is pre-4.3. The FAQ says that

upgrades should work if your current release is minus one from the