Changes Coming For OpenBSD 5.6

OpenBSD 5.6 is expected to be released at the start of November and with this release will come a large number of changes.

Among the slated OpenBSD 5.6 changes include:

- New qlw, qla, upd, brswphy, uscom and axen drivers.
- Suspend and resume support for the Intel and Radeon DRM/KMS drivers.
- SCSI Multi-pathing support via the mpath driver.
- New product support for existing chipsets.
- IPv6 support is turned off for new devices to instead to enable IPv6 address support when assigning it.
- Various installer improvements.
- New HTTPD server instance with FastGI and SSL support.
- Security Improvements.
- Various other improvements.

For more information on the other tentative OpenBSD 5.6 changes due for its early November release see the notes at OpenBSD.org.