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Calgary and elsewhere, 2023-04-10:
The OpenBSD project today announced the release and general availability of its latest stable version, OpenBSD 7.3.

Eagerly anticipated by users, engineers, enthusiasts and industry pundits all over the world, this release contains a number of improvements over earlier versions, including but not limited to

• Improved hardware support, including new arm64 variants and numerous network and graphics driver updates
• Improved general and network performance due to steadily improving multi-core support
• More flexible network configuration,
  now supporting lladdr-based config
  [See earlier report.]
• retguard for amd64 system calls
  [See earlier report.]
• Enhanced memory and process security [See earlier report]
• Relinking of network exposed daemons at boot time
  [See earlier report.]
• execute-only (xonly)
  [See earlier report.]
• pinsyscall(2)
  [See earlier report.]
• Improved versions of OpenSSH (9.3), LibreSSL (3.7.2), OpenBGPD (7.9) …
• Support for disk encryption in the installer
  [See earlier report.]
• X11 Mesa shader cache enabled.
• More aggressive randomisation of the stack location for all 64-bit architectures except alpha
  [See earlier report.]

You may notice that the list of OpenBSD Innovations has grown a bit too, while the detailed changelog offers more detail.

All reasonably modern architectures had install sets and complete binary packages available on the mirrors at the time of the announcements.

Some slower (historic or just weird) architectures are still building but OpenBSD still supports 14 architectures.

While you are waiting for your downloads, installs or upgrades to complete (or even before starting either), please remember to visit the donations page and/or buy OpenBSD swag to support the project financially.

And finally, this release is the first since OpenBSD 7.0 to feature a release song. The Wizard and the Fish is the new obligatory addition to your hacking playlist.

We’re pleased to announce the release of MediaGoblin 0.12.1. See the release
notes for full
details and upgrading instructions.

This patch release fixes a number of Python dependency issues, allows us to
support newer autoconf versions, fixes a few small bugs and improves the
documentation. Support for Debian Bookwork, Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36 is
notably missing from this release, but will be addressed in the upcoming version
0.13.0.

Thanks go to Olivier Mehani, Elisei Roca, Jgart, Dan Helfman and Peter Horvath
for their contributions in this release. Since our last release, long-time
MediaGoblin user and contributor Olivier has joined me as co-maintainer on the
project. Thanks for all your help Olivier!

To join us and help improve MediaGoblin, please visit our getting
involved page.

Amid the push for technology independence, Chinese companies are pushing out more products to satisfy the need for the rapidly soaring demand for domestic data processing silicon. Today, we have information that Chinese Loongson has launched a 3D5000 CPU with as many as 32 cores. Utilizing chiplet technology, the 3D5000 represents a combination of two 16-core 3C5000 processors based on LA464 cores, based on LoongArch ISA that follows the combination of RISC and MIPS ISA design principles. The new chip features 64 MB of L3 cache, supports eight-channel DDR4-3200 ECC memory achieving 50 GB/s, and has five HyperTransport (HT) 3.0 interfaces. The TDP configuration of the chip is officially 300 Watts; however, normal operation is usually at around 150 Watts, with LA464 cores running at 2 GHz. China’s rapid improvement in microprocessors isn’t really all that interesting for us in other parts of the world, because chips from companies like Loongson don’t really make their way over here. What is interesting about this, however, is the implications this continued trend will have for the geopolitical state of the world. A China not dependent on Taiwan’s TSMC for its chips is a China that can more freely invade Taiwan.