Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 7.8 today as the newest feature release to this popular BSD operating system.
OpenBSD 7.8 features initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 when using the console over serial port. OpenBSD 7.8 also brings Apple ARM improvements and some work on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite support, including new drivers for the Qualcomm Snapdragon DRM graphics and Qualcomm DisplayPort controller support.
OpenBSD 7.8 also brings multiple improvements around enabling AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (AMD SEV) support with support for the PSP ioctl for encrypting and measuring state for SEV-ES, a new VMD option to run guests in SEV-ES mode, and other enablement work pertaining to that AMD SEV work in SEV-ES form at this point as a precursor to SEV-SNP. AMD SEV-ES should be working to start confidential virtual machines (VMs) when using the VMM/VMD hypervisor and the OpenBSD guests with KVM/QEMU.
OpenBSD 7.8 also improves compatibility of the FUSE file-system support with the Linux implementation, suspend/hibernate improvements, SMP improvements, updating to the Linux 6.12.50 DRM graphics drivers, several new Rockchip drivers, Raspberry Pi RP1 drivers, H.264 video support for the uvideo driver, and many network driver improvements.
Downloads and more details on today’s OpenBSD 7.8 release via OpenBSD.org.
