It has been a busy two weeks in the OpenBSD ports tree. Between major toolchain updates in base causing some fallout, expanding our Software Defined Radio (SDR) ecosystem, updating my repository of GNUstep app wrappers, and performing long-overdue dependency pruning for some popular web scanners, there is plenty to cover.

Here is a comprehensive breakdown of the updates, new imports, and maintenance work happened over the last fortnight.

The LLVM 22 Upgrade & GNUstep Fallout

The update of LLVM to version 22 in OpenBSD base was a fantastic milestone, but as with many major compiler jumps, it introduced a wave of stricter compilation constraints and deprecations. As the maintainer of a significant portion of our GNUstep ecosystem, I watched the build infrastructure light up with failures.

I spent a chunk of time this week on a focused OpenBSD ports updating sprint, putting a number of other projects a bit to the side to finally tackle this overdue activity. As it usually goes, what started as a few simple bumps quickly turned into a giant domino effect of interconnected dependencies—especially in the Ruby and Python ecosystems ;)

It’s not worth listing every single minor bump explicitly, but here is a breakdown of the major updates that just hit the tree.