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The following is a summary of the release history of the OpenBSD

OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995...

operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

1.1: October 18, 1995 –
OpenBSD CVS repository created by Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt , born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and was a founding member of the NetBSD project.- Childhood :...

. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061019013207
While the version number used at this stage was 1.1 (cf. the release history of NetBSD, which OpenBSD branched from), OpenBSD 1.1 was not an official OpenBSD release in the sense which this term subsequently came to be used in.

1.2: July 1, 1996 –
Creation of the intro(9) man page, for documenting kernel internals.
Integration of the update(8) command into the kernel.
As before, while this version number was used in the early development of the OS, OpenBSD 1.2 was not an official release in the subsequently applicable sense.

2.0: October 1, 1996 –
the first official release of OpenBSD, and also the point at which XFree86
XFree86
XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System. It was originally written for Unix-like operating systems on IBM PC compatibles and is now available for many other operating systems and platforms. It is free and open source software under the XFree86 License version 1.1. It is developed by the...

first recognised OpenBSD as separate from NetBSD
NetBSD
NetBSD is a freely available open source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution Unix operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. The NetBSD project is primarily focused on high quality design,...
initial integration of the FreeBSD ports
FreeBSD Ports
The FreeBSD Ports collection is a package management system for the FreeBSD operating system, providing an easy and consistent way of installing software packages. As of October 2011, there are over 22,700 ports available in the collection...

system
replacement of gawk with the AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

awk
integration of zlib
Zlib
zlib is a software library used for data compression. zlib was written by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in their gzip file compression program. Zlib is also a crucial component of many software platforms including Linux, Mac OS X,...
added sudo
Sudo
sudo is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user...

2.1: June 1, 1997 –
replacement of the older sh with pdksh

2.2: December 1, 1997 –
addition of the afterboot(8) man page

2.3: May 19, 1998 –
Introduced the haloed daemon, or aureola beastie
BSD Daemon
The BSD daemon, nicknamed Beastie, is the generic mascot of BSD operating systems.-Overview:The BSD daemon is named after a software daemon, a computer program found on Unix-like operating systems, which through a play on words takes the cartoon shape of a mythical demon. The BSD daemon's nickname...

, in head-only form created by Erick Green.

2.4: December 1, 1998 –
Featured the complete haloed daemon, with trident
Trident
A trident , also called a trishul or leister or gig, is a three-pronged spear. It is used for spear fishing and was also a military weapon. Tridents are featured widely in mythical, historical and modern culture. The major Hindu god, Shiva the Destroyer and the sea god Poseidon or Neptune are...

and a finished body.

2.5: May 19, 1999 –
Introduced the Cop daemon image done by Ty Semaka.

c99: June 4, 1999 – the original hackathon
Hackathon
A hackathon, a hacker neologism, is an event when programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming. The spirit of a hackathon is to collaboratively build programs and applications. Hackathons are typically between several days and a week in length...
10 developers in Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

2.6: December 1, 1999 –
Based on the original SSH
Secure Shell
Secure Shell is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client...

suite and developed further by the OpenBSD team, 2.6 saw the first release of OpenSSH
OpenSSH
OpenSSH is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol...

, which is now available standard on most Unix-like operating systems and is the most widely used SSH suite.

2.7: June 15, 2000 –
support for SSH2 added to OpenSSH

c2k: June 15, 2000 –
18 developers, once more in Calgary

2.8: December 1, 2000 –
isakmpd(8)

2.9: June 1, 2001 –

c2k1: June 21, 2001 –
35 developers in Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

, USA

c2k1-II: August 17, 2001 –
12 developers in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, USA

3.0: December 1, 2001 – E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix), a techno track performed by the release mascot, Puff Daddy the famed rapper and political icon.
After licence restrictions were imposed on IPFilter
IPFilter
IPFilter is an open source software package that provides firewall services and network address translation for many UNIX-like operating systems. The author and software maintainer is Darren Reed. IPFilter supports both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, and is a stateful firewall.IPFilter is delivered...

, the pf
PF (firewall)
PF is a BSD licensed stateful packet filter, a central piece of software for firewalling. It is comparable to iptables, ipfw and ipfilter...

packet filter was developed. pf is now available in DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD is a free Unix-like operating system created as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and a FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began work on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on July...

, NetBSD
NetBSD
NetBSD is a freely available open source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution Unix operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. The NetBSD project is primarily focused on high quality design,...

and FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...

.

3.1: May 19, 2002 – Systemagic, where Puffy, the Kitten Slayer, battles evil script kitties. Inspired by the works of Rammstein
Rammstein
Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...

and a parody of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

c2k2: June 4, 2002 –
42 developers in Calgary,
origin of the "Shut Up and Hack!" motto

3.2: November 1, 2002 – Goldflipper a tale in which James Pond, agent 077, super spy and suave lady's man, deals with the dangers of a hostile internet. Styled after the orchestral introductory ballads of James Bond films.

3.3: May 1, 2003 – Puff the Barbarian, born in a tiny bowl, Puff was a slave, now he hacks through the C, searching for the Hammer. An 80s rock-style song and parody of Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films , television programs, video games, roleplaying games and other media...

dealing with open documentation.
In 2003, code from ALTQ
ALTQ
ALTQ is an ALTernate Queueing framework for BSD. ALTQ provides queueing disciplines and other QoS related components required to realize resource-sharing and Quality of Service. It is most commonly implemented on BSD-based routers...

, which had a licence disallowing the sale of derivatives, was relicensed, integrated into pf and made available in OpenBSD 3.3.

c2k3: May 10, 2003 –
51 developers in Calgary.

3.4: November 1, 2003 – The Legend of Puffy Hood where Sir Puffy of Ramsay, a freedom fighter who, with Little Bob of Beckley, took from the rich and gave to all. Tells of the POSSE project
POSSE project
The Portable Open Source Security Elements, or POSSE project, was a co-operative venture between the University of Pennsylvania Distributed Systems Laboratory, the OpenBSD project and others. It received funding through a grant from the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or...

's cancellation. An unusual blend of both hip-hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

and medievally styled music, a parody of the tale of Robin Hood
Robin Hood
Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....

intended to express OpenBSD's attitude to free speech.
i386 platform switched executable format from a.out to ELF
Executable and Linkable Format
In computing, the Executable and Linkable Format is a common standard file format for executables, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps. First published in the System V Application Binary Interface specification, and later in the Tool Interface Standard, it was quickly accepted among...
The GPL licensed gzip
Gzip
Gzip is any of several software applications used for file compression and decompression. The term usually refers to the GNU Project's implementation, "gzip" standing for GNU zip. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of Lempel-Ziv and Huffman coding...

was replaced by retooling the existing compress
Compress
Compress is a UNIX compression program based on the LZC compression method, which is an LZW implementation using variable size pointers as in LZ78.- Description of program :Files compressed by compress are typically given the extension .Z...

tool to include its functionality.
The GPL licensed grep
Grep
grep is a command-line text-search utility originally written for Unix. The name comes from the ed command g/re/p...

was replaced with FreeGrep, an updated BSD licensed grep. This new grep is now also available in NetBSD.
A public domain diff
Diff
In computing, diff is a file comparison utility that outputs the differences between two files. It is typically used to show the changes between one version of a file and a former version of the same file. Diff displays the changes made per line for text files. Modern implementations also...

was updated and used to replace the GPL licensed diff previously included.
Code from the LGPL
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...

licensed p0f was relicensed to allow pf to feature passive operating system detection.

pf2k4: April 24, 2004 –
pf
PF (firewall)
PF is a BSD licensed stateful packet filter, a central piece of software for firewalling. It is comparable to iptables, ipfw and ipfilter...

hackathon
Sechelt
Sechelt, British Columbia
The District Municipality of Sechelt is on the lower Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Approximately 50 km northwest of Vancouver, Sechelt is accessible to the mainland of British Columbia via a 40 minute ferry trip between Horseshoe Bay and Langdale, and a 25 minute drive from Langdale...

, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

3.5: May 1, 2004 – CARP License and Redundancy must be free where a fish seeking to licence his free redundancy protocol, CARP, finds trouble with the red tape. A parody of the Fish License Skit and Eric the Half-a-Bee Song by Monty Python
Monty Python
Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...

, with an anti-software patents message.
CARP
Common Address Redundancy Protocol
The Common Address Redundancy Protocol or CARP is a protocol which allows multiple hosts on the same local network to share a set of IP addresses. Its primary purpose is to provide failover redundancy, especially when used with firewalls and routers. In some configurations CARP can also provide...

, an open alternative to the HSRP
Hot Standby Router Protocol
Hot Standby Router Protocol is a Cisco proprietary redundancy protocol for establishing a fault-tolerant default gateway, and has been described in detail in RFC 2281....

and VRRP
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol is a computer networking protocol that provides for automatic assignment of available Internet Protocol routers to participating hosts...

redundancy systems available from commercial vendors.
GPL licensed parts of the GNU toolset, bc
Bc programming language
bc, for bench calculator, is "an arbitrary precision calculator language" with syntax similar to the C programming language. bc is typically used as either a mathematical scripting language or as an interactive mathematical shell....

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bc, dc
Dc (Unix)
dc is a cross-platform reverse-polish desk calculator which supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic. It is one of the oldest Unix utilities, predating even the invention of the C programming language; like other utilities of that vintage, it has a powerful set of features but an extremely terse...

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc, nm
Nm (Unix)
The nm command ships with a number of later versions of Unix and similar operating systems. nm is used to examine binary files and to display the contents of those files, or meta information stored in them, specifically the symbol table...

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nm and size
Size (Unix)
size is a command line utility originally written for use with the Unix-like operating systems. It processes one or more ELF files and its output are the dimensions of the text, data and uninitialized sections, and their total.Common use:...

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=size, were all replaced with BSD licensed equivalents.
AMD64 platform becomes stable enough for release and is included for the first time as part of a release.

c2k4: June 19, 2004 –
46 developers, Calgary

3.6: November 1, 2004 – Pond-erosa Puff (live) was the tale of Pond-erosa Puff, a no-guff freedom fighter from the wild west, set to hang a lickin' on no-good bureaucratic nerds who encumber software with needless words and restrictions. The song was styled after the works of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

, a parody of the Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...

and Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

and inspired by liberal licence enforcement
OpenNTPD
OpenNTPD
OpenNTPD is a Unix system daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol to synchronize the local clock of a computer system with remote NTP servers. It is also able to act as an NTP server to NTP-compatible clients....

, a compatible alternative to the reference NTP daemon, was developed within the OpenBSD project. The goal of OpenNTPD was not solely a compatible licence. It also aims to be a simple, secure NTP implementation providing acceptable accuracy for most cases, without requiring detailed configuration http://www.openntpd.org/goals.html.
Because of its questionable security record and doubts of developers for better future development, OpenBSD removed Ethereal
Wireshark
Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education...

from its ports tree prior to its 3.6 release.

3.7: May 19, 2005 – The Wizard of OS
Wizard of OS (song)
For OpenBSD 3.7, released May 19, 2005, a theme song was made titled "The Wizard of OS". The song chronicled the OpenBSD developers' struggle to obtain open documentation for wireless cards and how manufacturers in Taiwan like Ralink and Realtek were the most cooperative of all the companies...

, where Puffathy, a little Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

girl, must work with Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

to save the day by getting unencumbered wireless
Wireless
Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...

. This release was styled after the works of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...

and a parody of The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...

, this dealt with wireless hacking.

c2k5: May 21, 2005 –
60 developers in Calgary.

What the Hack
What the Hack
What The Hack was an outdoor hacker conference held in Liempde, Netherlands between the 28th and 31st of July, 2005. It is an event in a sequence that began with the Galactic Hacker Party in 1989, followed by Hacking at the End of the Universe in 1993, Hacking In Progress in 1997 and Hackers At...

: July 28–31, 2005 –
How many developers?, in Liempde
Liempde
Liempde is a village in the Netherlands in the municipality Boxtel. Annually the Flevo Christian music festival is held here. In 2005 the event What the Hack took place in Liempde....

, The Netherlands.

3.8: November 1, 2005 – Hackers of the Lost RAID, which detailed the exploits of Puffiana Jones, famed hackologist and adventurer, seeking out the Lost RAID, Styled after the radio serials
Serial (radio and television)
Serials are series of television programs and radio programs that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode by episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from...

of the 1930s and 40s, this was a parody
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

of Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Colonel Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...

and was linked to the new RAID tools featured as part of this release.

v2k5: November 1, 2005 –
ports hackathon
12 developers in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

.

OpenCON: November 4, 2005 – The OpenBSD Convention.
v2k5 developers and OpenBSD usergroup OpenBEER members gather for talks, presentations and beer.

3.9: May 1, 2006 – Attack of the Binary BLOB, which chronicles the developer's fight against binary blobs and vendor lock-in
Vendor lock-in
In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products and services, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs...

, a parody of the 1958 film The Blob
The Blob
The Blob is an independently made 1958 American horror/science-fiction film that depicts a giant amoeba-like alien that terrorizes the small community of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania...

and the pop-rock music of the era.
enhanced OpenBGPD
OpenBGPD
OpenBGPD allows general purpose computers to be used as routers. It is a Unix system daemon that provides a free, open-source implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol version 4. This allows a machine to exchange routes with other systems that speak BGP....

feature-set
Improved hardware sensors framework

4.0: Nov 1, 2006 – Humppa Negala, a Hava Nagilah parody with a portion of Entrance of the Gladiators
Entrance of the Gladiators
"Entrance of the Gladiators" or "Entry of the Gladiators" is a military march composed in 1897 by the Czech composer Julius Fučík...

and Humppa
Humppa
Humppa is a type of music from Finland. It is related to jazz and very fast foxtrot, played two beats to a bar . Typical speed is about 220 to 260 beats per minute. Humppa is also the name of a few social dances danced to humppa music. All dances involve bounce that follows the strong bass of the...

music fused together, with no story behind it, simply a homage
Homage
Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic....

to one of the OpenBSD developers' favourite genres of music.

4.1: May 1, 2007 – Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors, a parody of the arabic fable
Fable
A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized , and that illustrates a moral lesson , which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.A fable differs from...

Ali Baba
Ali Baba
Ali Baba is a fictional character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves...

and the Forty Thieves, part of the book of One Thousand and One Nights, in which Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

developers are mocked over their allowance of non-disclosure agreement
Non-disclosure agreement
A non-disclosure agreement , also known as a confidentiality agreement , confidential disclosure agreement , proprietary information agreement , or secrecy agreement, is a legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties...

s when developing software while at the same time implying hardware vendors are criminals for not giving documentation required to make device drivers away.

4.2: Nov 1, 2007 – 100001 1010101, the Linux kernel developers gets a knock for violating the ISC-style license, of OpenBSD's open hardware abstraction layer for Atheros wireless cards.

4.3: May 1, 2008 – Home to Hypocrisy,

4.4: Nov 1, 2008 – Trial of the BSD Knights, summarizes the history of BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995...

including the USL v. BSDi
USL v. BSDi
USL v. BSDi was a lawsuit brought in the United States in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc and the Regents of the University of California over intellectual property related to UNIX...

lawsuit.
sparc64 port now supports many recent processors: Sun
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

UltraSPARC IV, T1
UltraSPARC T1
|right|262px|UltraSPARC T1 processorSun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1 microprocessor, known until its 14 November 2005 announcement by its development codename "Niagara", is a multithreading, multicore CPU...

, and T2
UltraSPARC T2
Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T2 microprocessor is a multithreading, multi-core CPU. It is a member of the SPARC family, and the successor to the UltraSPARC T1. The chip is sometimes referred to by its codename, Niagara 2...

; Fujitsu
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....

SPARC64 V
SPARC64 V
SPARC64 V refers to two unique microprocessors, the SPARC64 V "Zeus" developed by Fujitsu, and an earlier design developed by HAL Computer Systems that never made it into production. The HAL design was canceled in mid-2001 when HAL, a subsidiary of Fujitsu, was closed...

, VI
SPARC64 VI
The SPARC64 VI, code-named Olympus-C, is a microprocessor, developed by Fujitsu. It implements the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture and is compliant with the Joint Programming Specification developed by Fujitsu and Sun. It is used by Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems in their SPARC Enterprise...

, and VII.
New System-on-a-Chip PowerPC port for Freescale devices

4.5: May 1, 2009 – Games.

4.6: Oct 18, 2009 – Planet of the Users.

4.7: May 19, 2010 – I'm Still Here.

4.8: Nov 1, 2010 – El Puffiachi. http://www.openbsd.org/48.html http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128397592926217&w=2

4.9: May 1, 2011 – The Answer. http://www.openbsd.org/49.html

5.0: Nov 1, 2011 – What Me Worry?. http://www.openbsd.org/50.html

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