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mparable to unix curses also exists 142 graphical user interfaces edit vws 4 5 running on top of vax vms v5 5 2 decwindows xui window manager running on top of vax vms v5 5 2 over the years vms has gone through a number of different gui toolkits and interfaces the original graphical user interface for vms was a proprietary windowing system known as the vms workstation software vws which was first released for the vaxstation i in 1984 143 it exposed an api called the user interface services uis 144 it ran on a limited selection of vax hardware 145 in 1989 dec replaced vws with a new x11 based windowing system named decwindows 146 it was first included in vax vms v5 1 147 early versions of decwindows featured an interface built on top of a proprietary toolkit named the x user interface xui a layered product named uisx was provided to allow vws uis applications to run on top of decwindows 148 parts of xui were subsequently used by the open software foundation as the foundation of the motif toolkit 149 in 1991 dec replaced xui with the motif toolkit creating decwindows motif 150 151 as a result the motif window manager became the default decwindows interface in openvms v6 0 147 although the xui window manager remained as an option in 1996 as part of openvms v7 1 147 dec released the new desktop interface for decwindows motif based on the common desktop environment cde 152 on alpha and itanium systems it is still possible to select the older mwm based ui referred to as the decwindows desktop at login time the new desktop was never ported to the vax releases of openvms versions of vms running on dec alpha workstations in the 1990s supported opengl 153 and accelerated graphics port agp graphics adapters vms also provides support for older graphics standards such as gks and phigs 154 155 modern versions of decwindows are based on x org server 9 security edit openvms provides various security features and mechanisms including security identifiers resource identifiers subsystem identifiers acls intrusion detection and detailed security auditing and alarms 156 specific versions evaluated at trusted computer system evaluation criteria class c2 and with the sevms security enhanced release at class b1 157 openvms also holds an itsec e3 rating see ncsc and common criteria 158 passwords are hashed using the purdy polynomial vulnerabilities edit early versions of vms included a number of privileged user accounts including system field systest and decnet with default passwords which were often left unchanged by system managers 159 160 a number of computer worms for vms including the wank worm and the father christmas worm exploited these default passwords to gain access to nodes on decnet networks 161 this issue was also described by clifford stoll in the cuckoo s egg as a means by which markus hess gained unauthorized access to vax vms systems 162 in v5 0 the default passwords were removed and it became mandatory to provide passwords for these accounts during system setup 39 a 33 year old vulnerability in vms on vax and alpha was discovered in 2017 and assigned the cve id cve 2017 17482 on the affected platforms this vulnerability allowed an attacker with access to the dcl command line to carry out a privilege escalation attack the vulnerability relies on exploiting a buffer overflow bug in the dcl command processing code the ability for a user to interrupt a running image program executable with ctrl y and return to the dcl prompt and the fact that dcl retains the privileges of the interrupted image 163 the buffer overflow bug allowed shellcode to be executed with the privileges of an interrupted image this could be used in conjunction with an image installed with higher privileges than the attacker s account to bypass system security 164 posix compatibility edit various official unix and posix compatibility layers were created for vms the first of these was dec shell which was a layered product consisting of ports of the bourne shell from version 7 unix and several other unix utilities to vax vms 115 in 1992 dec released the posix for openvms layered product which included a shell based on the kornshell 165 posix for openvms was later replaced by the open source gnv gnu s not vms project which was first included in openvms media in 2002 166 amongst other gnu tools gnv includes a port of the bash shell to vms 167 examples of third party unix compatibility layers for vms include eunice 168 hobbyist programs edit in 1997 openvms and a number of layered products were made available free of charge for hobbyist non commercial use as part of the openvms hobbyist program 169 since then several companies producing openvms software have made their products available under the same terms such as process software 170 prior to the x86 64 port the age and cost of hardware capable of running openvms made emulators such as simh a common choice for hobbyist installations 171 in march 2020 hpe announced the end of the openvms hobbyist program 172 this was followed by vsi s announcement of the community license program clp in april 2020 which was intended as a replacement for the hpe hobbyist program 173 the clp was launched in july 2020 and provides licenses for vsi openvms releases on alpha integrity and x86 64 systems 174 openvms for vax is not covered by the clp since there are no vsi releases of openvms vax and the old versions are still owned by hpe 175 release history edit release history of openvms vendor version release date 176 8 177 end of support 178 179 180 platform significant changes new hardware support 181 147 dec unsupported x0 5 n 1 april 1978 182 vax first version shipped to customers 29 unsupported v1 0 august 1978 first production release unsupported v1 01 n 2 bug fixes 183 unsupported v1 5 february 1979 n 3 support for native cobol bliss compilers 183 unsupported v1 6 august 1979 rms 11 updates 184 unsupported v2 0 april 1980 vax 11 750 new utilities including edt unsupported v2 1 n 4 unsupported v2 2 april 1981 process limit increased to 8 192 186 unsupported v2 3 may 1981 187 security enhancements 188 unsupported v2 4 unsupported v2 5 backup utility 189 unsupported v3 0 april 1982 vax 11 730 vax 11 725 vax 11 782 asmp unsupported v3 1 august 1982 pl i runtime bundled with base os 190 unsupported v3 2 december 1982 support for ra60 ra80 ra81 disks 191 unsupported v3 3 april 1983 hsc50 disk controller backup changes 192 unsupported v3 4 june 1983 ethernet support for decnet 193 vax 11 785 unsupported v3 5 november 1983 support for new i o devices 194 unsupported v3 6 april 1984 bug fixes 195 unsupported v3 7 august 1984 support for new i o devices 196 unsupported v4 0 september 1984 vax 8600 microvms vaxclusters 197 unsupported v4 1 january 1985 microvax vaxstation i ii 198 unsupported v4 2 october 1985 text processing utility unsupported v4 3 december 1985 delua ethernet adapter support unsupported v4 3a january 1986 vax 8200 unsupported v4 4 july 1986 vax 8800 8700 85xx volume shadowing unsupported v4 5 november 1986 support for more memory in microvax ii unsupported v4 5a december 1986 ethernet vaxclusters unsupported v4 5b march 1987 vaxstation microvax 2000 unsupported v4 5c may 1987 microvax 2000 cluster support unsupported v4 6 august 1987 vax 8250 8350 8530 rms journalling unsupported v4 7 january 1988 first release installable from cd rom unsupported v4 7a march 1988 vaxstation 3200 3500 microvax 3500 3600 unsupported v5 0 april 1988 vax 6000 smp lmf modular executive unsupported v5 0 1 august 1988 bug fixes unsupported v5 0 2 october 1988 unsupported v5 0 2a microvax 3300 3400 unsupported v5 1 february 1989 decwindows unsupported v5 1 b vaxstation 3100 30 40 desktop vms unsupported v5 1 1 june 1989 vaxstation 3520 3540 microvax 3800 3900 unsupported v5 2 september 1989 cluster wide process visibility management unsupported v5 2 1 october 1989 vaxstation 3100 38 48 unsupported v5 3 january 1990 support for third party scsi devices unsupported v5 3 1 april 1990 support for vaxstation spx graphics unsupported v5 3 2 may 1990 support for new i o devices unsupported v5 4 october 1990 vax 65xx vax vector architecture unsupported v5 4 0a vax 9000 bug fixes for vax 6000 systems unsupported v5 4 1 november 1990 new models of vax 9000 vaxstation vaxft unsupported v5 4 1a january 1991 vax 6000 400 unsupported v5 4 2 march 1991 vax 4000 model 200 new i o devices unsupported v5 4 3 october 1991 fddi adapter support unsupported v5 5 november 1991 cluster wide batch queue new vax models unsupported a5 5 same as v5 5 but without new batch queue unsupported v5 5 1 july 1992 bug fixes for batch print queue unsupported v5 5 2hw september 1992 vax 7000 10000 and other new vax hardware unsupported v5 5 2 november 1992 september 1995 consolidation of previous hardware releases unsupported v5 5 2h4 august 1993 new vax 4000 models additional i o devices unsupported v5 5 2hf vaxft 810 unsupported v1 0 n 5 november 1992 alpha first release for alpha architecture unsupported v1 5 may 1993 cluster and smp support for alpha unsupported v1 5 1h1 october 1993 new dec 2000 dec 3000 models unsupported v6 0 june 1993 vax tcsec c2 compliance iso 9660 motif unsupported v6 1 april 1994 vax alpha merger of vax and alpha releases pcsi unsupported v6 1 1h1 september 1994 alpha new alphastation alphaserver models unsupported v6 1 1h2 november 1994 unsupported v6 2 june 1995 march 1998 vax alpha command recall dcl path scsi clusters unsupported v6 2 1h1 december 1995 alpha new alphastation alphaserver models unsupported v6 2 1h2 march 1996 unsupported v6 2 1h3 may 1996 unsupported v7 0 january 1996 vax alpha 64 bit addressing fast i o kernel threads unsupported v7 1 january 1997 july 2000 very large memory support dcl pipe cde unsupported v7 1 1h1 november 1997 alpha alphaserver 800 5 500 1200 unsupported v7 1 1h2 april 1998 support for booting from third party devices compaq unsupported v7 1 2 december 1998 additional i o device support unsupported v7 2 february 1999 june 2002 vax alpha openvms galaxy ods 5 dcom unsupported v7 2 1 july 1999 alpha alphaserver gs140 gs60 tsunami unsupported v7 2 1h1 june 2000 alphaserver gs160 gs320 unsupported v7 2 2 september 2001 december 2002 minicopy support for volume shadowing unsupported v7 2 6c1 august 2001 dii coe conformance 199 unsupported v7 2 6c2 july 2002 unsupported v7 3 june 2001 december 2012 vax final release for vax architecture june 2004 alpha atm and gbe clusters extended file cache hp unsupported v7 3 1 august 2002 december 2004 alpha security and performance improvements unsupported v7 3 2 december 2003 december 2006 alphaserver gs1280 ds15 unsupported v8 0 june 2003 december 2003 ia 64 evaluation release for integrity servers unsupported v8 1 december 2003 february 2005 second evaluation release for integrity servers unsupported v8 2 february 2005 june 2010 alpha ia 64 production release for integrity servers unsupported v8 2 1 september 2005 ia 64 support for hp superdome rx7620 rx8620 unsupported v8 3 august 2006 december 2015 alpha ia 64 support for additional integrity server models unsupported v8 3 1h1 november 2007 ia 64 support for hp bl860c dual core itanium unsupported v8 4 june 2010 december 2020 alpha ia 64 support for hpvm clusters over tcp ip 200 vsi unsupported v8 4 1h1 may 2015 december 2022 ia 64 support for poulson processors 201 unsupported v8 4 2 march 2016 support for hpe bl890c systems uefi 2 3 unsupported v8 4 2l1 september 2016 december 2024 openssl updated to 1 0 2 202 supported v8 4 2l1 january 2017 203 december 2035 alpha supported v8 4 2l2 july 2017 final release for alpha architecture 204 supported v8 4 2l3 april 2021 ia 64 final release for integrity servers 204 unsupported v9 0 may 2020 june 2021 x86 64 x86 64 early adopter s kit 205 unsupported v9 1 june 2021 september 2021 x86 64 field test 84 unsupported v9 1 a september 2021 april 2022 decnet plus for x86 64 85 unsupported v9 2 july 2022 june 2023 x86 64 limited production release 206 unsupported v9 2 1 june 2023 june 2025 amd cpus openssl 3 0 native compilers 207 supported v9 2 2 january 2024 december 2027 bug fixes 208 latest version v9 2 3 november 2024 december 2028 vmware vmotion vmdirectpath future version v9 2 4 march 2027 tba iscsi support legend unsupported supported latest version preview version future version x0 5 was also known as base level 5 182 while an exact release date is unknown the v1 01 change log dates in the release notes for v1 5 suggest it was released some time after november 1978 183 for some of the early vax vms releases where an official release date is not known the date of the release notes has been used an approximation the existence of releases v2 0 through v2 5 are documented in the v3 0 release notes 185 while the versioning scheme reset to v1 0 for the first axp alpha releases these releases were contemporaneous with the v5 x releases and had a similar feature set see also edit 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