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OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

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OpenBSD 8.0 will release with updated drivers for Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA graphics cards, including the latest Linux 6.18 kernel, marking a significant milestone for the operating system. This release supports Clang/LLVM 22, the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series, the Intel Arc A-Series, and the Qualcomm WCN7850 "ath12k" WiFi driver, among other features. The release also includes support for OpenBSD vmm/vmd(8), accelerated swap encryption, a new battery status monitor driver, and custom HTTP response headers and blocking/filtering rules based on received HTTP headers. OpenBSD 8.0 is set to support OpenSSH in the release cycle.

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  • OpenBSD 8.0 will release with updated drivers for Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA graphics cards,…: OpenBSD 8.0 will release with updated drivers for Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA graphics cards, including the latest Linux 6.18 kernel, marking a significant milestone for the operating system.
  • This release supports Clang/LLVM 22, the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series, the Intel Arc A-Serie…: This release supports Clang/LLVM 22, the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series, the Intel Arc A-Series, and the Qualcomm WCN7850 "ath12k" WiFi driver, among other features.
  • The release also includes support for OpenBSD vmm/vmd(8), accelerated swap encryption, a…: The release also includes support for OpenBSD vmm/vmd(8), accelerated swap encryption, a new battery status monitor driver, and custom HTTP response headers and blocking/filtering rules based on received HTTP headers. OpenBSD 8.0 is set to support OpenSSH in the release cycle.

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I think it's about time for some #OpenBSD #80HYPE

Clang/LLVM 22 is now OpenBSD's base compiler on clang architectures, including updated libc++{,abi}, compiler-rt & libunwind support libraries.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116658062479940402

OpenBSD/sparc64 switches to Clang by default! This was the last significant architecture to switch. This makes OpenBSD the only operating system to support sparc64 with a modern toolchain.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117130130536792528

Since 7.9, Jonathan Gray (jsg@) has continued to update the drm graphics stack (inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu) bringing OpenBSD 8.0 to Linux 6.18.y/6.18.53, adding driver support for Intel Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) cards.

Increased KVA (kernel virtual addresses) on amd64 (to 512G) now allows mapping more than 4G of VRAM (for example, GPU compute w/ Vulkan)

https://freshbsd.org/openbsd/src?q=drm&committer[]=jsg

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116794461642940154

After a ton of work in Edmonton by Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) and Dave Voutila (dv@), OpenBSD vmm/vmd(8) now supports SMP guests up to 64 VCPUs per VM! 🎉

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117295044109301163

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117299753668348206

OpenBSD 8.0 adds qwz(4), new WiFi driver for Qualcomm WCN7850 "ath12k" devices.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116574369382033904

A new driver, sambat(4), for monitoring battery status, cycle count/charge info on Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (Snapdragon arm64) machines.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116600674574234896

Accelerated swap encryption on amd64 and arm64 by using AES CPU instructions.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117090842236460135

OpenBSD/arm64 and OpenBSD/riscv64 boards can now heartbeat blinking LEDs to show system load averages.

Das Blinkenlights!!

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116879479168132932

#OpenBSD httpd(8) now supports many new features:

- Setting custom HTTP response headers.

- New blocking/filtering rules based on received HTTP headers (e.g: User-Agent: )

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117371604463587328

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116979133275422995

See also rsadowski@'s report: https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/w2k26-edmonton-openbsd-hackathon/

.. and finally,

I made my first commit to #OpenSSH this release cycle!

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117007833531799959

And lots more to see in 8.0!

@brynet OpenBSD is the only OS I would contemplate running on an internet-facing host. So easy to keep it patched and updated!

@brynet

I wish I still had my UltraSPARC box. With BlueSCSI, I could have kept it running.

@brynet that is so cool #BSD is full of so much great stuff, wish I could switch my hubby easily to it for gaming

Original source: bsd.network

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