Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2017-10-09 from the Puffy's 44th release dept.

A few days ahead of the date hinted at by the work-in-progress release page, OpenBSD 6.2 was released today, October 9th 2017.

Notable changes in this release are as always numerous, and include:

Improved hardware support on modern platforms including ARM64/ARMv7 and octeon, while amd64 users will appreciate additional support for the Intel Kaby Lake video cards.

Network stack improvements include extensive SMPization improvements and a new FQ-CoDel queueing discipline, as well as enhanced WiFi support in general and improvements to iwn(4), iwm(4) and anthn(4) drivers.

Improvements in vmm(4)/vmd include VM migration, as well as various compatibility and performance improvements.

Security enhancements including a new freezero(3) function, further pledge(2)ing of base system programs and conversion of several daemons to the fork+exec model.

Trapsleds, KARL , and random linking for libcrypto and ld.so, dramatically increase security by making it harder to find helpful ROP gadgets, and by creating a unique order of objects per-boot.

, and random linking for libcrypto and ld.so, dramatically increase security by making it harder to find helpful gadgets, and by creating a unique order of objects per-boot. The base system compiler on the amd64 and i386 platforms has switched to clang(1).

New versions of OpenSSH, OpenSMTPd, LibreSSL and mandoc are also included.

The full story is, as always, to be found in the release page, an upgrade guide is available, and of course the project Donations page is always open for business.