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- OpenBSD 6.0 RELEASED -------------------------------------------------

September 1, 2016.

We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.0.
This is our 40th release on CD-ROM (and 41st via FTP/HTTP). We remain
proud of OpenBSD's record of more than twenty years with only two remote
holes in the default install.

As in our previous releases, 6.0 provides significant improvements,
including new features, in nearly all areas of the system:

- New/extended platforms:
o armv7:
- EFI bootloader added, kernels are now loaded from FFS instead
of FAT or EXT filesystems, without U-Boot headers.
- A single kernel and ramdisk are now used for all SoCs.
- Hardware is dynamically enumerated via Flattened Device Tree
(FDT) instead of via static tables based on board id numbers.
- Miniroot installer images include U-Boot 2016.07 with support
for EFI payloads.
o vax:
- Removed.

- Improved hardware support, including:
o New bytgpio(4) driver for the Intel Bay Trail GPIO controller.
o New chvgpio(4) driver for the Intel Cherry View GPIO controller.
o New maxrtc(4) driver for the Maxim DS1307 real time clock.
o New nvme(4) driver for the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host
controller interface.
o New pcfrtc(4) driver for the NXP PCF8523 real time clock.
o New umb(4) driver for the Mobile Broadband Interface Model (MBIM).
o New ure(4) driver for RealTek RTL8152 based 10/100 USB Ethernet
devices.
o New utvfu(4) driver for audio/video capture devices based on the
Fushicai USBTV007.
o The iwm(4) driver now supports Intel Wireless 3165 and 8260
devices, and works more reliably in RAMDISK kernels.
o Support for I2C HID devices with GPIO signalled interrupts has
been added to dwiic(4).
o Support for larger bus widths, high speed modes, and DMA transfers
has been added to sdmmc(4), rtsx(4), sdhc(4), and imxesdhc(4).
o Support for EHCI and OHCI compliant USB controllers on Octeon II
SoCs.
o Many USB device drivers have been enabled on OpenBSD/octeon.
o Improved support for hardware-reduced ACPI implementations.
o Improved support for ACPI 5.0 implementations.
o AES-NI crypto is now done without holding the kernel lock.
o Improved AGP support on PowerPC G5 machines.
o Added support for the SD card slot in Intel Bay Trail SoCs.
o The ichiic(4) driver now ignores the SMBALERT# interrupt to
prevent an interrupt storm with buggy BIOS implementations.
o Device attachment problems with the axen(4) driver have been
fixed.
o The ral(4) driver is more stable under load with RT2860 devices.
o Problems with dead keyboards after resume have been fixed in the
pckbd(4) driver.
o The rtsx(4) driver now supports RTS522A devices.
o Initial support for MSI-X has been added.
o Support MSI-X in the virtio(4) driver.
o Added a workaround for hardware DMA overruns to the dc(4) driver.
o The acpitz(4) driver now spins the fan down after cooling if ACPI
uses hysteresis for active cooling.
o The xhci(4) driver now performs handoff from an xHCI-capable BIOS
correctly.
o Support for multi-touch input has been added to the wsmouse(4)
driver.
o The uslcom(4) driver now supports the serial console of Aruba 7xxx
wireless controllers.
o The re(4) driver now works around broken LED configurations in
APU1 EEPROMs.
o The ehci(4) driver now works around problems with ATI USB
controllers (e.g. SB700).
o The xen(4) driver now supports domU configuration under Qubes OS.

- IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
o The HT block ack receive buffer logic follows the algorithm given
in the 802.11-2012 spec more closely.
o The iwn(4) driver now keeps track of HT protection changes while
associated to an 11n AP.
o The wireless stack and several drivers make more aggressive use of
RTS/CTS to avoid interference from legacy devices and hidden
nodes.
o The netstat(1) -W command now shows information about 802.11n
events.
o In hostap mode, do not reuse association IDs of nodes which are
still cached. Fixes a problem where an access point using the
ral(4) driver would get stuck at 1 Mbps because Tx rate accounting
happened on the wrong node object.

- Generic network stack improvements:
o The routing table is now based on ART offering a faster lookup.
o The number of route lookup per packet has been reduced to 1 in the
forwarding path.
o The prio field on VLAN headers is now correctly set on each
fragment of an IPv4 packet going out on a vlan(4) interface.
o Enabled device cloning for bpf(4). This allows the system to have
just one bpf device node in /dev that services all bpf consumers
(up to 1024).
o The Tx queue of the cnmac(4) driver can now be processed in
parallel of the rest of the kernel.
o Network input path is now run in thread context.

- Installer improvements:
o updated list of restricted usercodes
o install.sh and upgrade.sh merged into install.sub
o update automatically runs sysmerge(8) in batch mode before
fw_update(1)
o questions and answers are logged in a format that can be used as a
response file for use by autoinstall(8)
o /usr/local is set to wxallowed during install

- Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
o Add routing table support to rc.d(8) and rcctl(8).
o Let nc(1) support service names in addition to port numbers.
o Add -M and -m TTL flags to nc(1).
o Add AF_UNIX support to tcpbench(1).
o Fixed a regression in rarpd(8). The daemon could hang if it was
idle for a long time.
o Added the llprio option in ifconfig(8).
o Multiple programs that use bpf(4) have been modified to take
advantage of bpf(4) device cloning by opening /dev/bpf0 instead of
looping through /dev/bpf* devices. These programs include arp(8),
dhclient(8), dhcpd(8), dhcrelay(8), hostapd(8), mopd(8), npppd(8),
rarpd(8), rbootd(8), and tcpdump(8). The libpcap library has also
been modified accordingly.

- Security improvements:
o W^X is now strictly enforced by default; a program can only
violate it if the executable is marked with PT_OPENBSD_WXNEEDED
and is located on a filesystem mounted with the wxallowed mount(8)
option. Because there are still too many ports which violate W^X,
the installer mounts the /usr/local filesystem with wxallowed.
This allows the base system to be more secure as long as
/usr/local is a separate filesystem. If you use no W^X violating
programs, consider manually revoking that option.
o The setjmp(3) family of functions now apply XOR cookies to stack
and return-address values in the jmpbuf on amd64, hppa, i386,
mips64, and powerpc.
o SROP mitigation: sigreturn(2) can now only be used by the
kernel-provided signal trampoline, with a cookie to detect
attempts to reuse it.
o To deter code reuse exploits, rc(8) re-links libc.so on startup,
placing the objects in a random order.
o In the getpwnam(3) family of functions, stop opening the shadow
database by default.
o Allow tcpdump(8) -r to be started without root privileges.
o Remove systrace.
o Remove Linux emulation support.
o Remove support for the usermount option.
o The TCP SYN cache reseeds its random hash function from time to
time. This prevents an attacker from calculating the distribution
of the hash function with a timing attack.
o To work against SYN flooding attacks the administrator can change
the size of the hash array now. netstat(1) -s -p tcp shows the
relevant information to tune the SYN cache with sysctl(8)
net.inet.tcp.
o The administrator can require root privileges for binding to some
TCP and UDP ports with sysctl(8) net.inet.tcp.rootonly and
sysctl(8) net.inet.udp.rootonly.
o Remove a function pointer from the mbuf(9) data structure and use
an index into an array of acceptable functions instead.

- Assorted improvements:
o The thread library can now be loaded into a single-threaded
process.
o Improved symbol handling and standards compliance in libc. For
example, defining an open() function will no longer interfere with
the operation of fopen(3).
o PT_TLS sections are now supported in initially loaded object.
o Improved handling of "no paths" and "empty path" in fts(3).
o In pcap(3), provide the functions pcap_free_datalinks() and
pcap_offline_filter().
o Many bugfixes and structural cleanup in the editline(3) library.
o Remove ancient dbm(3) functions; ndbm(3) remains.
o Add setenv keyword for more powerful environment handling in
doas.conf(5).
o Add -g and -p options to aucat.1 for time positioning.
o Rewrite audioctl(1) with a simpler user interface.
o Add -F option to install(1) to fsync(2) the file before closing
it.
o kdump(1) now dumps pollfd structures.
o Improve various details of ksh(1) POSIX compliance.
o mknod(8) rewritten in a pledge(2)-friendly style and to support
creating multiple devices at once.
o Implement rcctl(8) get all and getdef all.
o Implement the rcs(1) -I (interactive) flag.
o In rcs(1), implement Mdocdate keyword substitution.
o In top(1), allow to filter process arguments if they are being
displayed.
o Added UTF-8 support to fold(1) and rev(1).
o Enable UTF-8 by default in xterm(1) and pod2man(1).
o Filter out non-ASCII characters in wall(1).
o Handle the COLUMNS environment variable consistently across many
programs.
o The options -c and -k allow to provide TLS client certificates for
syslogd(8) on the sending side. With that the receiving side can
verify log messages are authentic. Note that syslogd does not have
this check feature yet.
o When the klog buffer overflows, syslogd will write a log message
to show that some entries is missing.
o On OpenBSD/octeon, CPU cache write buffering is enabled to improve
performance.
o pkg_add(1) and pkg_info(1) now understand a notion of branch to
ease selection of some popular packages such as python or php,
e.g., say pkg_add python%3.4 to select the 3.4 branch, and use
pkg_info -zm to get a fuzzy listing with branch selection suitable
for pkg_add -l.
o fdisk(8) and pdisk(8) immediately exit unless passed a character
special device
o st(4) correctly tracks the current block count for variable sized
blocks
o fsck_ext2fs(8) works again
o softraid(4) volumes can be constructed with disks that have a
sector size other than 512 bytes
o dhclient(8) DECLINE's and discards unused OFFER's.
o dhclient(8) immediately exits if its interface (e.g. a bridge(4))
returns EAFNOSUPPORT when a packet is sent.
o httpd(8) returns 400 Bad Request for HTTP v0.9 requests.
o ffs2's lazy node initialization avoids treating random disk data
as an inode
o fcntl(2) invocations in base programs use the idiom
fcntl(n,F_GETFL) instead of fcntl(n,F_GETFL,0)
o socket(2) and accept4(2) invocations in base programs use
SOCK_NONBLOCK to eliminate the need for a separate fcntl(2).
o tmpfs not enabled by default
o the in-kernel semantics of pledge(2) were improved in numerous
ways. Highlights include: a new chown promise that allows pledged
programs to set setugid attributes, a stricter enforcement of the
recvfd promise and chroot(2) is no longer allowed for pledged
programs.
o a number of pledge(2)-related bugs (missing promises, unintended
changes of behavior, crashes) were fixed, notably in gzip(1),
nc(1), sed(1), skeyinit(1), stty(1), and various disk-related
utilities, such as disklabel(8) and fdisk(8).
o Block size calculation errors in the audio(4) driver have been
fixed.
o The usb(4) driver now caches vendor and product IDs. Fixes an
issue where usbdevs(8) called in a loop would cause a USB mass
storage device to halt operation.
o The rsu(4) and ural(4) drivers are now working again after they
were accidentally broken in 5.9.

- OpenSMTPD 6.0.0
o Security:
- Implement the fork+exec pattern in smtpd(8).
- Fix a logic issue in the SMTP state machine that can lead to
an invalid state and result in a crash.
- Plug a file-pointer leak that can lead to resource exhaustion
and result in a crash.
- Use automatic DH parameters instead of fixed ones.
- Disable DHE by default since it is computationally expensive
and a potential DoS vector.
o The following improvements were brought in this release:
- Add the -r option to the smtpd(8) enqueuer for compatibility
with mailx.
- Add missing date or message-id when listening on the submit
port.
- Fix "smtpctl show queue" reporting "invalid" envelope state.
- Rework the format of the "Received" header so that the TLS
part does not violate the RFC.
- Increase the number of connections a local address is allowed
to establish, and decrease the delay between transactions in
the same session.
- Fix LMTP delivery to servers returning continuation lines.
- Further improve the still experimental filer API and fix
various related issues.
- Start improving and unifying the format of log messages.
- Fix several documentation discrepancies and typos in the man
pages.

- OpenSSH 7.3
o Security:
- sshd(8): Mitigate a potential denial-of-service attack
against the system's crypt(3) function via sshd(8). An
attacker could send very long passwords that would cause
excessive CPU use in crypt(3). sshd(8) now refuses to accept
password authentication requests of length greater than 1024
characters.
- sshd(8): Mitigate timing differences in password
authentication that could be used to discern valid from
invalid account names when long passwords were sent and
particular password hashing algorithms are in use on the
server. CVE-2016-6210.
- ssh(1), sshd(8): Fix observable timing weakness in the CBC
padding oracle countermeasures. Note that CBC ciphers are
disabled by default and only included for legacy
compatibility.
- ssh(1), sshd(8): Improve ordering ordering of MAC
verification for Encrypt-then-MAC (EtM) mode transport MAC
algorithms to verify the MAC before decrypting any
ciphertext. This removes the possibility of timing
differences leaking facts about the plaintext, though no such
leakage is known.
o New/changed features:
- ssh(1): Add a ProxyJump option and corresponding -J
command-line flag to allow simplified indirection through a
one or more SSH bastions or "jump hosts".
- ssh(1): Add an IdentityAgent option to allow specifying
specific agent sockets instead of accepting one from the
environment.
- ssh(1): Allow ExitOnForwardFailure and ClearAllForwardings to
be optionally overridden when using ssh -W. (bz#2577)
- ssh(1), sshd(8): Implement support for the IUTF8 terminal
mode as per draft-sgtatham-secsh-iutf8-00.
- ssh(1), sshd(8): Add support for additional fixed
Diffie-Hellman 2K, 4K and 8K groups from
draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-kex-sha2-03.
- ssh-keygen(1), ssh(1), sshd(8): support SHA256 and SHA512 RSA
signatures in certificates.
- ssh(1): Add an Include directive for ssh_config(5) files.
- ssh(1): Permit UTF-8 characters in pre-authentication banners
sent from the server. (bz#2058)
o The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
- In scp(1) and sftp(1), prevent screwing up terminal settings
by escaping bytes not forming ASCII or UTF-8 characters.
- ssh(1), sshd(8): Reduce the syslog level of some relatively
common protocol events from LOG_CRIT. (bz#2585)
- sshd(8): Refuse AuthenticationMethods="" in configurations
and accept AuthenticationMethods=any for the default
behaviour of not requiring multiple authentication. (bz#2398)
- sshd(8): Remove obsolete and misleading "POSSIBLE BREAK-IN
ATTEMPT!" message when forward and reverse DNS don't match.
(bz#2585)
- ssh(1): Close ControlPersist background process stderr except
in debug mode or when logging to syslog. (bz#1988)
- misc: Make PROTOCOL description for
direct-streamlocal@openssh.com channel open messages match
deployed code. (bz#2529)
- ssh(1): Deduplicate LocalForward and RemoteForward entries to
fix failures when both ExitOnForwardFailure and hostname
canonicalisation are enabled. (bz#2562)
- sshd(8): Remove fallback from moduli to obsolete "primes"
file that was deprecated in 2001. (bz#2559)
- sshd_config(5): Correct description of UseDNS: it affects ssh
hostname processing for authorized_keys, not known_hosts.
(bz#2554)
- ssh(1): Fix authentication using lone certificate keys in an
agent without corresponding private keys on the filesystem.
(bz#2550)
- sshd(8): Send ClientAliveInterval pings when a time-based
RekeyLimit is set; previously keepalive packets were not
being sent. (bz#2252)

- OpenNTPD 6.0
o When a single "constraint" is specified, try all returned
addresses until one succeeds, rather than the first returned
address.
o Relaxed the constraint error margin to be proportional to the
number of NTP peers, avoid constant reconnections when there is a
bad NTP peer.
o Removed disabled hotplug(4) sensor support.
o Added support for detecting crashes in constraint subprocesses.
o Moved the execution of constraints from the ntp process to the
parent process, allowing for better privilege separation since the
ntp process can be further restricted.
o Added pledge(2) support.
o Fixed high CPU usage when the network is down.
o Fixed various memory leaks.
o Switched to RMS for jitter calculations.
o Unified logging functions with other OpenBSD base programs.
o Set MOD_MAXERROR to avoid unsynced time status when using
ntp_adjtime.
o Fixed HTTP Timestamp header parsing to use strptime(3) in a more
portable fashion.
o Hardened TLS for ntpd(8) constraints, enabling server name
verification.

- LibreSSL 2.4.2
o User-visible features:
- Fixed some broken manpage links in the install target.
- cert.pem has been reorganized and synced with Mozilla's
certificate store.
- Reliability fix, correcting an error when parsing certain
ASN.1 elements over 16k in size.
- Implemented the IETF ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher suites.
- Fixed password prompts from openssl(1) to properly handle ^C.
o Code improvements:
- Fixed an nginx compatibility issue by adding an 'install_sw'
build target.
- Changed default EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305(3) implementation
to the IETF version, which is now the default.
- Reworked error handling in libtls so that configuration
errors are more visible.
- Added missing error handling around bn_wexpand(3) calls.
- Added explicit_bzero(3) calls for freed ASN.1 objects.
- Fixed X509_*set_object functions to return 0 on allocation
failure.
- Deprecated internal use of
EVP_[Cipher|Encrypt|Decrypt]_Final.
- Fixed a problem that prevents the DSA signing algorithm from
running in constant time even if the flag BN_FLG_CONSTTIME is
set.
- Fixed several issues in the OCSP code that could result in
the incorrect generation and parsing of OCSP requests. This
remediates a lack of error checking on time parsing in these
functions, and ensures that only GENERALIZEDTIME formats are
accepted for OCSP, as per RFC 6960.
o The following CVEs have been fixed:
- CVE-2016-2105--EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow.
- CVE-2016-2106--EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow.
- CVE-2016-2107--padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check.
- CVE-2016-2108--memory corruption in the ASN.1 encoder.
- CVE-2016-2109--ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation.

- Ports and packages:
o New proot(1) tool in the ports tree for building packages in a
chroot.
o Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
- alpha: 7422 - mips64: 7921
- amd64: 9433 - mips64el: 7767
- hppa: 6346 - powerpc: 8318
- i386: 9394 - sparc64: 8750

- Some highlights:

o Afl 2.19b o Mozilla Thunderbird 45.2.0
o Chromium 51.0.2704.106 o Mutt 1.6.2
o Emacs 21.4 and 24.5 o Node.js 4.4.5
o GCC 4.9.3 o Ocaml 4.3.0
o GHC 7.10.3 o OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.44
o Gimp 2.8.16 o PHP 5.5.37, 5.6.23, and 7.0.8
o GNOME 3.20.2 o Postfix 3.1.1 and 3.2-20160515
o Go 1.6.3 o PostgreSQL 9.5.3
o Groff 1.22.3 o Python 2.7.12, 3.4.5, and 3.5.2
o JDK 7u80 and 8u72 o R 3.3.1
o KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3 (plus o Ruby 1.8.7.374, 2.0.0.648, 2.1.9,
KDE4 core updates) 2.2.5, and 2.3.1
o LLVM/Clang 3.8.0 o Rust 1.9.0-20160608
o LibreOffice 5.1.4.2 o Sendmail 8.15.2
o Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4, and 5.3.3 o Sudo 1.8.17.1
o MariaDB 10.0.25 o Tcl/Tk 8.5.18 and 8.6.4
o Mono 4.4.0.182 o TeX Live 2015
o Mozilla Firefox 45.2.0esr and o Vim 7.4.1467
47.0.1 o Xfce 4.12

- As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.

- The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
o Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.18.3 + patches,
freetype 2.6.3, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 11.2.2, xterm 322,
xkeyboard-config 2.18 and more)
o GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
o Perl 5.20.3 (+ patches)
o SQLite 3.9.2 (+ patches)
o NSD 4.1.10
o Unbound 1.5.9
o Ncurses 5.7
o Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
o Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
o Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
o Expat 2.1.1

If you'd like to see a list of what has changed between OpenBSD 5.9
and 6.0, look at

http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus60.html

Even though the list is a summary of the most important changes
made to OpenBSD, it still is a very very long list.

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- SECURITY AND ERRATA --------------------------------------------------

We provide patches for known security threats and other important
issues discovered after each CD release. As usual, between the
creation of the OpenBSD 6.0 HTTP/CD-ROM binaries and the actual 6.0
release date, our team found and fixed some new reliability problems
(note: most are minor and in subsystems that are not enabled by
default). Our continued research into security means we will find
new security problems -- and we always provide patches as soon as
possible. Therefore, we advise regular visits to

http://www.OpenBSD.org/security.html
and
http://www.OpenBSD.org/errata.html

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- MAILING LISTS --------------------------------------------------------

Mailing lists are an important means of communication among users and developers of OpenBSD. For information on OpenBSD mailing lists, please
see:

http://www.OpenBSD.org/mail.html

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- CD-ROM SALES ---------------------------------------------------------

OpenBSD 6.0 is also available on CD-ROM. The 3-CD set costs 44 EUR and
is available via web order worldwide.

The CD set includes a colourful booklet which carefully explains the installation of OpenBSD. A new set of cute little stickers is also
included (sorry, but our HTTP mirror sites do not support STP, the Sticker Transfer Protocol). As an added bonus, the second CD contains audio tracks
for six songs: "Another Smash of the Stack", "Black Hat", "Money",
"Comfortably Dumb (the misc song)", "Mother", and "Goodbye".
MP3 and OGG versions of the audio tracks can be found on the first CD.

Lyrics (and an explanation) for the songs may be found at:

http://www.OpenBSD.org/lyrics.html#60

Profits from CD sales are the primary income source for the OpenBSD
project -- in essence selling these CD-ROM units ensures that OpenBSD
will continue to make another release six months from now.

The OpenBSD 6.0 CD-ROMs are bootable on the following platforms:

o i386
o amd64
o macppc
o sparc64

(Other platforms must boot from network, floppy, or other method).

For more information on ordering CD-ROMs, see:

http://www.OpenBSD.org/orders.html

All of our developers strongly urge you to buy a CD-ROM and support
our future efforts. Additionally, donations to the project are
highly appreciated, as described in more detail at:

http://www.OpenBSD.org/donations.html

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- OPENBSD FOUNDATION ---------------------------------------------------

For those unable to make their contributions as straightforward gifts,
the OpenBSD Foundation (http://www.openbsdfoundation.org) is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation that can accept larger contributions and
issue receipts. In some situations, their receipt may qualify as a
business expense write-off, so this is certainly a consideration for
some organizations or businesses. There may also be exposure benefits
since the Foundation may be interested in participating in press releases.
In turn, the Foundation then uses these contributions to assist OpenBSD's infrastructure needs. Contact the foundation directors at directors@openbsdfoundation.org for more information.

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- T-SHIRT SALES --------------------------------------------------------

The OpenBSD distribution company also sells T-shirts with new and old
designs and other merchandise, available from its web ordering system.

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- HTTP INSTALLS --------------------------------------------------------

If you choose not to buy an OpenBSD CD-ROM, OpenBSD can be easily
installed via HTTP downloads. Typically you need a single
small piece of boot media (e.g., a USB flash drive) and then the rest
of the files can be installed from a number of locations, including
directly off the Internet. Follow this simple set of instructions
to ensure that you find all of the documentation you will need
while performing an install via HTTP. With the CD-ROMs,
the necessary documentation is easier to find.

1) Read either of the following two files for a list of HTTP
mirrors which provide OpenBSD, then choose one near you:

http://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ftplist

As of September 1, 2016, the following HTTP mirror sites have the 6.0 release:

http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ Stockholm, Sweden
http://ftp.bytemine.net/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ Oldenburg, Germany
http://ftp.ch.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ Zurich, Switzerland
http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ Paris, France
http://ftp5.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ Vienna, Austria
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ Brisbane, Australia
http://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ CO, USA
http://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ CA, USA
http://mirror.esc7.net/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ TX, USA

The release is also available at the master site:

http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ Alberta, Canada

However it is strongly suggested you use a mirror.

Other mirror sites may take a day or two to update.

2) Connect to that HTTP mirror site and go into the directory
pub/OpenBSD/6.0/ which contains these files and directories.
This is a list of what you will see:

ANNOUNCEMENT alpha/ luna88k/ sparc64/
Changelogs/ amd64/ macppc/ src.tar.gz
HARDWARE armish/ octeon/ sys.tar.gz
PACKAGES armv7/ packages/ tools/
PORTS hppa/ ports.tar.gz xenocara.tar.gz
README i386/ root.mail zaurus/
SHA256 landisk/ sgi/
SHA256.sig loongson/ socppc/

It is quite likely that you will want at LEAST the following
files which apply to all the architectures OpenBSD supports.

README - generic README
HARDWARE - list of hardware we support
PORTS - description of our ports tree
PACKAGES - description of pre-compiled packages
root.mail - a copy of root's mail at initial login.
(This is really worthwhile reading).

3) Read the README file. It is short, and a quick read will make
sure you understand what else you need to fetch.

4) Next, go into the directory that applies to your architecture,
for example, amd64. This is a list of what you will see:

BOOTIA32.EFI* bsd* floppy60.fs pxeboot*
BOOTX62.EFI* bsd.mp* game60.tgz xbase60.tgz
BUILDINFO bsd.rd* index.txt xfont60.tgz
INSTALL.amd64 cd60.iso install60.fs xserv60.tgz
SHA256 cdboot* install60.iso xshare60.tgz
SHA256.sig cdbr* man60.tgz
base60.tgz comp60.tgz miniroot60.fs

If you are new to OpenBSD, fetch _at least_ the file INSTALL.amd64
and install60.iso. The install60.iso file (roughly 240MB in size)
is a one-step ISO-format install CD image which contains the various
*.tgz files so you do not need to fetch them separately.

If you prefer to use a USB flash drive, fetch install60.fs and
follow the instructions in INSTALL.amd64.

5) If you are an expert, follow the instructions in the file called
README; otherwise, use the more complete instructions in the
file called INSTALL.amd64. INSTALL.amd64 may tell you that you
need to fetch other files.

6) Just in case, take a peek at:

http://www.OpenBSD.org/errata.html

This is the page where we talk about the mistakes we made while
creating the 6.0 release, or the significant bugs we fixed
post-release which we think our users should have fixes for.
Patches and workarounds are clearly described there.

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