OpenBSD 5.9 - Hackdot

Re:OpenBSD 5.9 by gnoway on Friday April 15, 2016 @09:49PM (#11508911)

OpenBSD releases on a 6 month cadence, and they don't typically hold a release to fit something in at the last minute. I think they finalize the release well before the release date too; 5.9 was released on 3/29, but the errata page[0] shows 3 issues with patches from before that date.

[0] http://www.openbsd.org/errata59.html

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Re:OpenBSD 5.9 by wolf550e on Saturday April 16, 2016 @07:56AM (#11510258)

GCC changed their system for numbering versions with version 5.

GCC 4.9.X [1] was the stable branch first released on 2014-04-22 with latest patch 4.9.4 released on 2015-06-26.

GCC 5.X is the next stable branch first released exactly a year after 4.9 on 2015-04-22 with latest patch 5.3 released on 2015-12-04.

LLVM 3.5 [2] was released on 2014-09-03, latest patch 3.5.2 was released on 2015-04-02.

LLVM 3.6 was released on 2015-02-27, latest patch 3.6.2 was released on 2015-07-16.

LLVM 3.7 was released on 2015-09-01, latest patch 3.7.1 was released on 2016-06-05.

6 months before the 2016-03-29 release of OpenBSD 5.9, i.e. at the end of September of 2015, GCC 5.2 was the stable version, not GCC 4.9.3, but they chose GCC 4.9.3. LLVM 3.7 was the stable release, but they chose 3.5 (I hope it's 3.5.2 though it doesn't say).

So, OpenBSD's compilers are the stable branch from ~14 months before the release, with relevant updates applied. Not Debian, but not Arch either.

1 - https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html 2 - http://llvm.org/releases/

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Re:OpenBSD 5.9 by _asummers on Friday April 15, 2016 @11:22PM (#11509148)

Here's a Theo de Raadt talk on the OpenBSD release cycle, for those who are curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM

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