Re: Just spotted a version oddity with sshd on the various stable branches.

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 18/09/2017 05:20, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> On 09/16 19:50, Mike Pumford wrote:
> > NetBSD 6.1-STABLE:
> > # sshd -v
> > sshd: unknown option -- v
> > OpenSSH_7.5 NetBSD_Secure_Shell-20170418, OpenSSL 1.0.1u  22 Sep 2016
> >
> > NetBSD 7.1-STABLE:
> > # sshd -V
> > sshd: unknown option -- V
> > OpenSSH_6.8 NetBSD_Secure_Shell-20150403, OpenSSL 1.0.1u  22 Sep 2016
> >
> > Why is the SSH version on 7.1 stable much older than the one on 6.1?
>
> Because -6 was missing various OpenSSH security fixes and recently got a
> wholesale OpenSSH update (minus a few compat-breaking changes), which
> was the simplest path forward.
Okay but that now leaves a scenario where someone upgrading from 
6-stable to 7-stable gets a downgrade of openssh. How important that is 
depends on what features were added between 6.8 and 7.5.

Mike