New Release of OpenBSD

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 22, 2025,
updated Oct 23, 2025

• Undeadly ☛ OpenBSD 7.8 Released

  See the full changelog for more details of the changes made over this latest six month development cycle.

• Mailing list ARChives ☛ 'OpenBSD 7.8 released: Oct 22, 2025'

  We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 7.8. This is our 59th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of thirty years with only two remote holes in the default install.

  As in our previous releases, 7.8 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: [...]

Update

• Distro Watch ☛ BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.8

  Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.8, the latest of the regular biannual updates of the project's free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. This version adds support for Raspberry Pi 5, among many other changes: [...]

• Rafael Sadowski ☛ OpenBSD 7.8 highlights

  I think the biggest commercial use case for OpenBSD is still in the area of network security. SSH gateway, firewall, etc. Or, as with my customer, as a secure, resilient server solution that simply works.

  I am even more pleased that this is really gaining momentum in the network stack: [...]

LWN and DW:

• OpenBSD 7.8

  The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform BSD 4.4-based UNIX-like operating system. Its efforts emphasize portability, standardisation, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project also develops the widely-used and popular OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) software, which provides encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol.

• OpenBSD 7.8 released

  OpenBSD 7.8 has been released. As usual, this release includes a long list of changes; see the changelog for all of the details.

The Register:

• OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release'

  The 59th version of the OpenBSD operating system is here, six months after 7.7, with multiple improvements in various areas.

  OpenBSD's installer is not for the timid, so we do not recommend dual-booting if you don't have previous experience. That means it's best to dedicate a machine to it while you learn your way around. With version 7.8 there's an new, affordable, and fairly high performance way to do this: it now has official support for the Raspberry Pi 5 (along with multiple other Arm64 platforms.)