syspatch helps provide binary patches to OpenBSD. Simply run: $ doas syspatch This process can be automated by setting up a cronjob: $ doas crontab -e 0 * * * * sleep $((RANDOM % 43200)) && /usr/sbin/syspatch Notice that a random sleep has been inserted to ensure that the update starts at a unique time. This is designed to prevent all machines from running the exact same job at the exact same time, which would cause performance issues.