Links:
OpenSSH URL: https://www.openssh.com/
Announcement to freebsd-security@ URL: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2021-September/010473.html

Contact: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>

OpenSSH, a suite of remote login and file transfer tools, was updated from version 8.7p1 to 8.8p1 in the FreeBSD base system.

NOTE: OpenSSH 8.8p1 disables the ssh-rsa signature scheme by default. For more information please see the Important note for future FreeBSD base system OpenSSH update mailing list post.

OpenSSH supports FIDO/U2F devices, and support is now enabled in the base system.

Next steps include integrating U2F key devd rules into the base system, and merging the updated OpenSSH and FIDO/U2F support to stable branches.

Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation