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NetBSD 11.0 RC1 available!


February 08, 2026 posted by Martin Husemann

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing!
See the release announcement for details.

The netbsd-11 release branch is nearly a year old now, so it is high time the 11.0 release makes it to the front stage.

Please note that various ISO images have been split into small ones for CD/R media and full featured DVD ones. If you are not restricted by the size limits of a CD/R medium, make sure to pick the image with "-dvd.iso" in the name.

If you want to test 11.0 RC1 please check the installation notes for your architecture and download the preferred install image from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-11 builds from the bootable ARM images page.

If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the mailing lists or file a problem report.

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A few days ago I upgraded from 10.1 to 11.0 RC1 amd64 via sysupdate(8). All worked well. I find 11.0 RC1 just as stable as 10.1 with one noticeable improvement. On 10.1, once in a while when streaming Audio, the stream would slowdown and get garbled for a few seconds. On RC1, I have been streaming Audio via mplayer since I upgraded for hours on end, no issues so far. From my experience on 11.0 RC1, I would suggest people should upgrade to it so NetBSD 11.0 will be a awesome release. Great work NetBSD Team!

Posted by John on February 18, 2026 at 04:33 PM UTC #

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