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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.

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

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