OpenBSD 7.9 arrived on May 19, 2026, marking the project's 60th release. Theo de Raadt's team packed the release with broad platform support across arm64, amd64, riscv64, and several other architectures. New drivers for RK3588, RK3576, and SpacemiT K1 SoCs stand out, alongside AMD-specific fixes for floating point leakage and memory issues on systems with more than 512GB RAM.

Kernel changes include a scheduler tweak that lets admins tag CPU cores by performance tier—SMT, P, E, or L—via hw.blockcpu. Parking locks replace spinlocks in kernel mutexes, and delayed hibernation prevents battery drain by waking a suspended system to hibernate after a configurable timeout. These adjustments target server and laptop reliability under real workloads.

The DRM layer jumped to Linux 6.18.22, and vmd now supports confidential computing through AMD SEV. OpenBSD also boots on Apple Virtualization, with fixes for VM pause deadlocks and networking races. Audio subsystems gained better underrun recovery and fall-back device handling by default. OpenBSD 7.9 is available for download from mirror sites.