Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 8.0 today as the 61st release of this BSD operating system.
OpenBSD 8.0 ships a wide variety of changes, especially many hardware support improvements and security enhancements coming in heavy too. There continues to be a lot of OpenBSD hardware activity especially on x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V environments. Plus the wide assortment of package updates too.
Some of the OpenBSD 8.0 release highlights include:
- The AMD64 kernel's virtual address space has been raised from 4G to 512G.
- Faster swap encryption by making use of AES CPU instructions.
- Hibernate support on ARM64.
- OpenBSD 8.0 on RISC-V has support for the "V" vector extension and other new CPU ISA capabilities.
- OpenBSD 8.0 on SPARC64 transitioned to using the LLVM/Clang toolchain.
- OpenBSD retired Loongson architecture support due to not working on LLVM Clang 22.
- The DRM kernel graphics drivers are updated against their Linux 6.18 kernel state. There is now initial support for Intel Arc A-Series Alchemist graphics cards with OpenBSD 8.0.
- Many hardware device IDs and other hardware support improvements, including a lot of new wired and wireless network driver support.
- Many security improvements.
- Among the package offerings in OpenBSD 8.0 are GCC 16.1, GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.7.5, LLVM Clang 22, Python 3.14.7, Rust 1.98.1, Wayland 1.26, Xfce 4.20, and others.
Downloads and all the details on OpenBSD 8.0 via OpenBSD.org.