OpenBSD 8.0 Arrives With Its Founder's Claim of Two Remote Holes in Thirty Years
OpenBSD 8.0 is the project's 61st release, keeping to a semiannual schedule that dates back to 1996. What started more than thirty years ago as a fork of NetBSD has grown into one of the most security-conscious operating systems in active development.
In a post to the project's announcements mailing list, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt highlights the improvements in the new version and writes that the project remains proud of its record of more than thirty years with only two remote holes in the default install.
On the graphics side, the release adds Intel Arc support and an expanded virtual address space, which should improve compatibility with modern graphics cards and allow the system to map more than 4GB of VRAM.
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The qualifier is the interesting part. The count is scoped to the default install rather than to everything a user layers on top of it, so it is a claim about the smallest configuration the project ships - impressive, and deliberately narrow.
Breadth has a price, though: the same release retires support for the Loongson architecture after the port stopped working with the Clang 22 compiler. Keeping a default install that tight and holding on to every architecture may be two different projects.