The OpenBSD project released OpenBSD 8.0 on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. It is the project's 61st release.

For desktop users, the most visible change is in graphics. The drm(4) stack, which covers the inteldrm, radeondrm and amdgpu drivers, is now based on Linux 6.18.53, and inteldrm adds support for Intel Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) cards. OpenBSD contributor Bryan Steele flagged the update in an October 8 #80HYPE thread on bsd.network , crediting developer Jonathan Gray (jsg@) for the work.

Gray moved OpenBSD-current to Linux 6.18.y drm code in March, with sponsorship from the OpenBSD Foundation, Steele wrote at the time . Before that, -current tracked the 6.12.y longterm branch, and OpenBSD 7.8 shipped drivers based on 6.12.50.

Other platform changes help the graphics work too. On amd64 the kernel virtual address space grew from 4G to 512G, which now allows mapping more than 4GB of VRAM, and the pmap(9) direct map sits at a random location.…