1.4.0 - OpenBSD Support

Released September 13, 2025

Exosphere now fully supports OpenBSD as a remote platform

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The major feature in this release is the addition of a new PkgAdd provider, which targets OpenBSD remote systems. If you add OpenBSD systems to your inventory, discovery should enumerate them fully and you will be able to perform refresh actions on it, and obtain host details, just like any other supported remote Operating System.

Notes

If you already have OpenBSD hosts in your inventory , and they have been discovered as unsupported, that state will not automatically change. You must run exosphere inventory discover at least once after updating to 1.4.0 to have them fully setup and integrated into exosphere.

By default, on a release or stable install, all package updates are Security Updates, by definition, and will show up as such in Exosphere.

If you are running -current or -beta, the security status of package updates can’t be ascertained and none of them will show up as security updates.

Special Thanks

Thanks to Solène (@solene@bsd.network) on the Fediverse for the helpful pointers regarding the specific semantics of package updates on OpenBSD

What’s Changed

  • Add OpenBSD Support