OpenBSD 7.7 improves hibernation support and brings new userland features

Remaining one of the most minimalist and secure Unix-like operating systems on the market, OpenBSD is back with version 7.7. In its long history, this is the 58th release. While it still supports rather old and/or rare hardware such as the PA-RISC boxes by HP and the Omron workstations that use the Motorola 88000 RISC processors, OpenBSD 7.7 also comes with support for AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Intel Arrow Lake chips.

In addition to delivering support for the hardware mentioned above, OpenBSD 7.7 also comes with GNOME 47 and KDE Plasma 6.3.3. Those who can live without a GUI and want to go as light as possible will be pleased to find out that this new release can still operate in just 32 MB of memory when choosing to use the CLI. The Gefs filesystem now finally gets a timed snapshots feature. Additionally, the user has more flexible power management control, and many minor issues have been fixed. For example, false positives are no longer an issue when changing timezones, xmm/ymm registers in lldb feature read/write support, and more.

When looking back at version 7.6, OpenBSD 7.7 comes with a long list of changes worth being mentioned, as usual. The whole list can be found on this page. One last thing that needs to be highlighted is that OpenBSD 7.7 is available for download even as a floppy disk image.