Software Update: OpenBSD 5.5

The new semi-annual release of OpenBSD came out on Thursday. on this page a comprehensive list of ftp and http download locations can be found. OpenBSD descends from the original Berkeley Software Distribution and has the characteristic that the developers only want to use open source software. Furthermore, the operating system is known for its excellent documentation and safety. As usual with a new version of OpenBSD, there is also a new theme designed around the operating system, accompanied by a real theme song and available on audio CD, as a poster and as a T-shirt. As the title of the theme this time they chose Wrap in Time.

Version 5.5 includes the 2038 problem Fixed, packages are now digitally signed, many improvements have been made to radeondrm and inteldrm drivers, and OpenSMTPD is now used by default in favor of Sendmail.

Some highlights:

• GNOME 3.10.2
• KDE 3.5.10
• KDE 4.11.5
• Xfce 4.10
• MySQL 5.1.73
• PostgreSQL 9.3.2
• Postfix 2.11.0
• OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.38
• Mozilla Firefox 24.3 and 26.0
• Mozilla Thunderbird 24.3.0
• GHC 7.6.3
• LibreOffice 4.1.4.2
• Emacs 21.4 and 24.3
• Vim 7.4.135
• PHP 5.3.28 and 5.4.24
• Python 2.7.6 and 3.3.2
• Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.484, 2.0.0.353 and 2.1.0
• Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 and 8.6.1
• JDK 1.6.0.32 and 1.7.0.21
• Mono 2.10.9
• Chromium 32.0.1700.102
• Coarse 1.22.2
• Go 1.2
• GCC 4.6.4 and 4.8.2
• LLVM/Clang 3.3
• Node.js 0.10.24