OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements.

There are a ton of changes to find with the just-released OpenBSD 7.6. Some of the new OpenBSD 7.6 features include:

- OpenBSD 7.6 provides initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite (X1E80100) SoCs. The 7.6 release also has initial Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge boot support in ACPI mode with OpenBSD 7.6.

- ARM64 has additional CPU security mitigations with Spectre-V4 now in place on ARM64 and adding Spectre-BHB for Cortex-A57 cores.

- OpenBSD 7.6 on AMD64 has finally implemented support for AVX-512.

- Mitigating the Intel Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability ib conjunction with updated CPU microcode.

- OpenBSD 7.6 on RISC-V now supports the Milk-V Pioneer board.

- Work has begun for supporting S0 sleep states on OpenBSD as part of working toward suspend-to-idle on AMD64 systems.

- Various SMP kernel improvements.

- Support for Meteor Lake Arc Graphics with the Intel DRM driver and updating their Linux-ported DRM driver code against the Linux 6.6.52 state.

- AMD SEV support within VMM.

- Imported libva for VA-API support for video acceleration.

- Various network driver improvements.

- Many package updates and dozens of other improvements throughout.

Downloads and more details on the OpenBSD 7.6 release via OpenBSD.org.