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

[Soren Jacobsen <snj%blef.org@localhost>]

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.

Soren