Phoronix’s Michael Larabel reports: OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements. There are a ton of changes to find with the just-released OpenBSD 7.6.
Some of the new OpenBSD 7.6 features include:
– OpenBSD 7.6 provides initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite (X1E80100) SoCs. The 7.6 release also has initial Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge boot support in ACPI mode with OpenBSD 7.6.
– ARM64 has additional CPU security mitigations with Spectre-V4 now in place on ARM64 and adding Spectre-BHB for Cortex-A57 cores.
– OpenBSD 7.6 on RISC-V now supports the Milk-V Pioneer board.
– OpenBSD 7.6 on AMD64 has finally implemented support for AVX-512.
– Various SMP kernel improvements.
You can view the full list of features and download the OpenBSD 7.6 release via OpenBSD.org.
