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OpenBSD 7.7 Released

by ecliptik on 4/27/25, 6:29 PM with 29 comments

  • by brynet on 4/27/25, 7:28 PM

    OpenBSD 7.7 release artwork by Tomáš Rodr.

    https://www.openbsd.org/images/LifeOfAFish.png

    https://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy77.gif

    t-shirts, hoodies, stickers on openbsdstore.com

  • by sillywalk on 4/27/25, 7:29 PM

    Theo did a talk back in 2009 on the OpenBSD release process[0], and how they manage to keep releasing on schedule.

    [0] https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engine...

  • by accrual on 4/27/25, 11:26 PM

    Congrats on another release, OpenBSD team!

    I'm happily using OpenBSD as my core router, my Minecraft server, a laptop OS, and on my retro PCs. Currently updating my Raspberry Pi 4 to 7.7 as well.

  • by accrual on 4/28/25, 1:54 AM

    Anecdata regarding my RPi 4:

    * On 7.5 the built-in `bwmf0` was not detected

    * On 7.6 `bwmf0` was detected and works great, even in AP mode. However, my latest Node project core dumped when running `npm install` and nothing I tried got it working (short of recompiling Node)

    * On 7.7 (today's release) `npm install` is working perfect

    Not worth an entire blog post, but just goes to show improvements in OpenBSD over time on the Pi 4 :)

  • by NoWordsKotoba on 4/27/25, 6:46 PM

    I haven't used OpenBSD since the 3.x days, but I did dearly love it at the time. I'm so glad they're still working on it.

  • by jmclnx on 4/27/25, 7:01 PM

    Congratulations, my upgrades start tomorrow or maybe the next day I am sure all will go well and easy.

  • by ksec on 4/27/25, 7:40 PM

    Wondering how it compares to FreeBSD in terms of performance. OpenBSD used to be slower but in the past 3-4 years there were bunch of optimisations landed.

    I guess I will have to wait for another phoronix benchmarks.

  • by bangonkeyboard on 4/27/25, 8:47 PM

    A note to myself for future upgrades, from the upgrade guide:

    • Check available disk space in /usr. Verify that the /usr partition has a size of at least 1.1G. With less space the upgrade may fail and you should consider reinstalling the system instead.

    When this says "available disk space," it means "total" disk space of the /usr partition, not "free" space. I had less than 1.1GB of unused free space on /usr and had to verify that that was fine before proceeding.

  • by pabs3 on 4/28/25, 3:33 AM

    Hmm, been a while since they had a release song.

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

  • by j3th9n on 4/27/25, 10:19 PM

    I love that it still supports only 32MB of RAM.

  • by brynet on 4/27/25, 9:20 PM

  • by fithisux on 4/27/25, 8:16 PM

    DMD works on OpenBSD.