Even with its funding slashed, the open-source development group OpenBSD has released the latest version of its Unix-style operating system.
Last month, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), canceled a contract with OpenBSD, citing "world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly capable nation states."
Among its enhancements, OpenBSD 3.3 features a raft of security improvements, including greater protection against buffer overflows, default RSA binding in OpenSSL, and defenses against hackers modifying return addresses when returning from an operating system function.
On the hardware side, OpenBSD 3.3 now supports the new IDE disk controllers from companies such as Promise and Nvidia, and is more stable on the Sparc64 hardware platform.
OpenBSD 3.3 is free and available for download from the OpenBSD
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