Bryan Steele :flan_beard:: “I feel it is about time for some #OpenBSD #80HYPE…”

I feel it is about time for some #OpenBSD #80HYPE ![]()
Clang/LLVM 22 is now OpenBSD’s base compiler on clang architectures, together with up to date libc++{,abi}, compiler-rt & libunwind help libraries.
https://bsd.network/@brynet/116658062479940402
OpenBSD/sparc64 switches to Clang by default! This was the final vital structure to change. This makes OpenBSD the one working system to help sparc64 with a contemporary toolchain.
https://bsd.network/@brynet/117130130536792528
Since 7.9, Jonathan Gray (jsg@) has continued to replace the drm graphics stack (inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu) bringing OpenBSD 8.0 to Linux 6.18.y/6.18.53, including driver help for Intel Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) playing cards.
Increased KVA (kernel digital addresses) on amd64 (to 512G) now permits mapping greater than 4G of VRAM (for instance, GPU compute w/ Vulkan)
https://freshbsd.org/openbsd/src?q=drm&committer[]=jsg
https://bsd.network/@brynet/116794461642940154
After a ton of labor in Edmonton by Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) and Dave Voutila (dv@), OpenBSD vmm/vmd(8) now helps SMP visitors as much as 64 VCPUs per VM!
🎉
https://bsd.network/@brynet/117295044109301163
https://bsd.network/@brynet/117299753668348206
OpenBSD 8.0 provides qwz(4), new WiFi driver for Qualcomm WCN7850 “ath12k” units.
https://bsd.network/@brynet/116574369382033904
A brand new driver, sambat(4), for monitoring battery standing, cycle rely/cost data on Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (Snapdragon arm64) machines.
https://bsd.network/@brynet/116600674574234896
Accelerated swap encryption on amd64 and arm64 through the use of AES CPU directions.
https://bsd.network/@brynet/117090842236460135
OpenBSD/arm64 and OpenBSD/riscv64 boards can now heartbeat blinking LEDs to indicate system load averages.
Das Blinkenlights!!
https://bsd.network/@brynet/116879479168132932
#OpenBSD httpd(8) now helps many new options:
- Setting customized HTTP response headers.
- New blocking/filtering guidelines primarily based on acquired HTTP headers (e.g: User-Agent: )
https://bsd.network/@brynet/117371604463587328
https://bsd.network/@brynet/116979133275422995
See additionally rsadowski@’s report: https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/w2k26-edmonton-openbsd-hackathon/
.. and at last,
I made my first decide to #OpenSSH this launch cycle!
https://bsd.network/@brynet/117007833531799959
And tons extra to see in 8.0!
