Long-time Slashdot reader Noryungi writes: Openbsd 7.4 has been officially released. The 55th release of this BSD operating system, known for being security oriented, brings a lot of new things, including dynamic tracer, pfsync improvements, loads of security goodies and virtualization improvements. Grab your copy today! As mentioned by Phoronix's Michael Larabel, some of the key highlights include: - Dynamic Tracer (DT) and Utrace support on AMD64 and i386 OpenBSD - Power savings for those running OpenBSD 7.4 on Apple Silicon M1/M2 CPUs by allowing deep idle states when available for the idle loop and suspend - Support for the PCIe controller found on Apple M2 Pro/Max SoCs - Allow updating AMD CPU Microcode updating when a newer patch is available - A workaround for the AMD Zenbleed CPU bug - Various SMP improvements - Updating the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver support against the upstream Linux 6.1.55 state - New drivers for supporting various Qualcomm SoC features - Support for soft RAID disks was improved for the OpenBSD installer - Enabling of Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) on x86_64 and Branch Target Identifier (BTI) on ARM64 for capable processors You can download and view all the new changes via OpenBSD.org.

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