OpenIKED 6.9.0 has just been released. It will be arriving in the OpenIKED directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. OpenIKED is a free, permissively licensed Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) implementation, developed as part of the OpenBSD project. It is intended to be a lean, secure and interoperable daemon that allows for easy setup and management of IPsec VPNs. This release is based on OpenBSD 6.9. The portable versions take the OpenBSD based source code and add compatibility functions and build infrastructure for other operating systems. Version 6.9.0 is the first release of OpenIKED-portable in quite some time. Since the last portable release a significant amount of features and bug fixes have been added. If you have not used OpenIKED-portable in a while, you will be positively surprised! OpenIKED-portable is known to compile and run on at least the following operating systems: Arch Linux, Debian 10, FreeBSD 12, FreeBSD 13 and NetBSD 9. It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt OpenIKED-portable to more distributions. OpenIKED-portable can be downloaded from any of the mirrors listed at https://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html, from the /pub/OpenBSD/OpenIKED directory. General bugs may be reported to bugs@openbsd.org. Portable bugs may be filed at https://github.com/openiked/openiked-portable. We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community. Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release possible.