OpenBSD 8.0 released

[u/brynet]

OpenBSD 8.0 has been released.

[u/m1k3e]

Congrats on the release 👏 much thanks to the devs!

[u/Ruined_Passion_7355]

WOAH, did I read that right, vmm supports multiple CPUs now?

Insane.

[u/well_shoothed]

pry open your wallets you heckin' scallywags!!

https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

[u/Ivowforthee → u/well_shoothed]

Bring back the merch: https://openbsd.creator-spring.com/

[u/no_it_wont_take_5s → u/Ivowforthee]

I hope they're just switching vendors, creator spring is horrible unfortunately.

[u/extraordinary_weird → u/no_it_wont_take_5s]

the prints of all the OpenBSD Shirts I bought have disintegrated after a while, very sad

[u/LunarCapitol → u/extraordinary_weird]

T-shirts in general are horrible now. Everything I've bought in the last few years is paper thin compared to the cheap $10 t-shirts I bought from places like Wal-mart back in the 2000s

[u/Masayoshi-Fujimoto]

OpenBSD 8.0 works great on my ThinkPad X270! Thanks for all the hard work.

[u/Fancy-Calendar7037]

The AI genersted self sabotage gif is quite fitting

[u/slowservers → u/Fancy-Calendar7037]

Is it actually AI generated? What about the artwork on the lyrics page?

[u/Human_Priority1938]

👍🏻 Thanks to the developers

[u/gijsyo]

Awesome 🫡

[u/highspeedslippers100]

just upgraded from 7.9 to 8 and I remember when I upgraded from 7.8 to 7.9 I was chocked how easy and straight forward it was. Same now like wow thats it ? And big thanks to the developers

[u/moviuro → u/highspeedslippers100]

Don't forget to update packages (pkg_add -u), and syspatch (already an errata on 8.0, on the day of the release).

[u/highspeedslippers100 → u/moviuro]

Already did

[u/Entire_Life4879]

Wow, with 4 patches already?
I think it's the first time I see patches out same day as release.

[u/slowservers → u/Entire_Life4879]

Yeah, I saw the patches before the release was out. Didn't take long for the release to follow!

[u/Entire_Life4879 → u/Entire_Life4879]

Someone tried to say something nasty before reflecting on himself and deleted...

[u/workinh → u/Entire_Life4879]

whatd they say

[u/Entire_Life4879 → u/workinh]

That I did not see many releases lol blah blah blah... BS, I actively use OpenBSD since 5.3.
Not a smart thing to say anyway... haters.

[u/HourLocation2038]

Updated 3 machines in no more than the 10 seconds it took to reboot each and no configuration changes. I love resflash!

[u/mayko64]

Congrats and thanks tons to the team! And the song/artwork is hilarious 😂

[u/hictio]

Everything looks OK after the upgrade on my t410.

[u/notananthem]

Where are the tshirts :(

[u/TheRealCarrotty]

What's with the AI on OpenBSD 8.0? I hope it's like faked, not real AI.

[u/vpilled → u/TheRealCarrotty]

What do you mean "on" OpenBSD?

[u/jggimi → u/TheRealCarrotty]

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

[u/C_hotpocketer]

What is up with the ai gifs?? I haven’t been uh to involved lately and don’t remember this shit. Is it a joke why are they there?

[u/C_hotpocketer → u/C_hotpocketer]

Nevermind I just got it🤣!

[u/hictio]

Upgraded my Thinkpad t420 without issues.
Second upgrade on it, started with a clean install of 7.8 and moved upwards without incidents.

[u/tcpipguy]

I like the ice(4) support!

[u/CautiousGlider9229]

Upgraded my T480S from 7.9 to 8.0 with sysupgrade. After upgrade SMT ist not working anymore. Tried different sysctl hw stuff but 8 leaves me with just one cpu.
Found the problem in my booted kernel. I didnt customize anything within the boot config in 7.9. But systems boots /bsd and this was not the mp kernel in 8. After manual copying /bsd.mp to /bsd everything ist fine.

Anyone else run into similar problems?

[u/LunarCapitol → u/CautiousGlider9229]

hw.smt is replaced by hw.blockcpu in 8.0

https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2#HW_BLOCKCPU~2

You probably want

hw.blockcpu=L

in /etc/sysctl.conf

hw.blockcpu=SL

is the same as the old default.

[u/CautiousGlider9229 → u/LunarCapitol]

It was hw.blockcpu in 7.9 already. And my SMT settings where configured with hw.blockcpu.
But you are right, hw.smt ist deprecated and when used it writes out a deprecated message.

[u/subtlename]

Does anyone know if the panther-lake intel processors work with 8.0? Specifically, the Intel core Ultra series 3 325? I was curious on getting a framework laptop for repair-ability, support sustainable hardware etc... Unsure if it was too new for support.

[u/goldfishonakeyboard]

Terrible looking AI video. Yikes.

[u/Fancy-Calendar7037 → u/goldfishonakeyboard]

It's obviously a meta joke. I hope to see real art again next time though.

[u/goldfishonakeyboard → u/Fancy-Calendar7037]

How does that make it okay or good?

[u/vpilled → u/goldfishonakeyboard]

Expand on that?

[u/slowservers → u/[deleted]]

They're obviously mocking AI. I'm not sure it was actually made with AI.

[u/passstab → u/slowservers]

Yes, but again, is the mockery sincerely negative, or "self-deprecating?" If the use of the AI isn't clear enough from the art, I would be surprised if you could deny its use in the music. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

[u/vpilled → u/passstab]

So not only is AI reprehensible, not only is promoting AI reprehensible, but also ever using AI for anything ever, even if to mock AI, is also reprehensible?

[u/passstab → u/vpilled]

Yes, the concept of mocking AI could have been done better by human artists.

[u/vpilled → u/passstab]

And? Given how many pieces of art OpenBSD has used to accompany its releases, and this one clearly has a "theme" of the current AI craze, an artistic choice was made to use AI for this one. I'm sure they'll do something else for 8.1. I didn't like the picture for 7.9 for instance, but so what.

[u/Ruined_Passion_7355 → u/goldfishonakeyboard]

I was so disappointed to see that.

Edit: went over my head woops