NetBSD Bloghttps://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/feed/entries/atom2024-03-17T12:20:22+00:00Apache Roller (incubating)https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc6_availableNetBSD 10.0 RC6 available!martin2024-03-13T23:10:11+00:002024-03-13T23:10:11+00:00<p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the sixth
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC6/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p><p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the sixth
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC6/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p>
<p>The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release.
</p>
<p>
This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.
</p>
<p>
Since RC1 there have been numerous changes, including major updates to external software included in the release: Postfix, OpenSSH, and the firmware used for Raspberry PI devices. Various issues with RC1 have been fixed, including installer (sysinst) crashes. Lots of architecture specific fixes happend, e.g. various toolchain changes for VAX (so it is now finaly self-hosting again), and kernel changes for macppc, netwinder, and alpha.
</p>
<p>
For RC3 only few (relatively) minor changes were made, including https certificate verification in libfetch (which is used by pkg_ad(1)), and also improvements to the EFI bootloader to better deal with booting from CD (or in virtual machines ISO images), plus lots of various bug fixes.
</p>
<p>
RC4 became necessary as a few very important DRM/KMS issues especially for Intel GPUs have been resolved.
And as an (unexpected) bonus support for the Nintendo Wii has been added to the evbppc port.
</p>
<p>
RC5 has a few important security related updates of third party components (named, nsd, unbound, wpa_supplicant).
</p>
<p>
RC6 fixes a few issues with the new named/bind imported for RC5 plus several minor issues.
</p>
<p>Especially on amd64 machines please notes that we got a new DRM/KMS subsystem version, and this may lead to fallout on
some hardware. Unfortunately not all known bugs from the release engineering
<a href="https://wiki.NetBSD.org/releng/netbsd-10/">pre-release task list</a> could be fixed in time for this release - we will continue to improve the current state and hope to have more of them solved for the next (10.1) release.
</p>
<p>
If you want to test 10.0 RC6 please check the <a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC6/amd64/INSTALL.html">installation notes</a> for your architecture and download the preferred
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC6/images/">install image</a> from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-10 builds from the <a href="https://armbsd.org">bootable ARM images</a> page.
</p>
<p>
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the
<a href="https://mail-index.NetBSD.org">mailing lists</a> or file a <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd">problem report</a>.
</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc5_availableNetBSD 10.0 RC5 available!martin2024-02-28T19:37:19+00:002024-02-28T19:37:19+00:00<p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and probably last)
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC5/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p><p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fifth (and probably last)
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC5/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p>
<p>The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release.
</p>
<p>
This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.
</p>
<p>
Since RC1 there have been numerous changes, including major updates to external software included in the release: Postfix, OpenSSH, and the firmware used for Raspberry PI devices. Various issues with RC1 have been fixed, including installer (sysinst) crashes. Lots of architecture specific fixes happend, e.g. various toolchain changes for VAX (so it is now finaly self-hosting again), and kernel changes for macppc, netwinder, and alpha.
</p>
<p>
For RC3 only few (relatively) minor changes were made, including https certificate verification in libfetch (which is used by pkg_ad(1)), and also improvements to the EFI bootloader to better deal with booting from CD (or in virtual machines ISO images), plus lots of various bug fixes.
</p>
<p>
RC4 became necessary as a few very important DRM/KMS issues especially for Intel GPUs have been resolved.
And as an (unexpected) bonus support for the Nintendo Wii has been added to the evbppc port.
</p>
<p>
RC5 has a few important security related updates of third party components (named, nsd, unbound, wpa_supplicant).
</p>
<p>Especially on amd64 machines please notes that we got a new DRM/KMS subsystem version, and this may lead to fallout on
some hardware. Unfortunately not all known bugs from the release engineering
<a href="https://wiki.NetBSD.org/releng/netbsd-10/">pre-release task list</a> could be fixed in time for this release - we will continue to improve the current state and hope to have more of them solved for the next (10.1) release.
</p>
<p>
If you want to test 10.0 RC5 please check the <a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC5/amd64/INSTALL.html">installation notes</a> for your architecture and download the preferred
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC5/images/">install image</a> from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-10 builds from the <a href="https://armbsd.org">bootable ARM images</a> page.
</p>
<p>
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the
<a href="https://mail-index.NetBSD.org">mailing lists</a> or file a <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd">problem report</a>.
</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc4_availableNetBSD 10.0 RC4 available!martin2024-02-07T15:58:51+00:002024-02-07T15:58:52+00:00<p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and probably last)
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC4/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p><p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and probably last)
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC4/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p>
<p>The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release.
</p>
<p>
This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.
</p>
<p>
Since RC1 there have been numerous changes, including major updates to external software included in the release: Postfix, OpenSSH, and the firmware used for Raspberry PI devices. Various issues with RC1 have been fixed, including installer (sysinst) crashes. Lots of architecture specific fixes happend, e.g. various toolchain changes for VAX (so it is now finaly self-hosting again), and kernel changes for macppc, netwinder, and alpha.
</p>
<p>
For RC3 only few (relatively) minor changes were made, including https certificate verification in libfetch (which is used by pkg_ad(1)), and also improvements to the EFI bootloader to better deal with booting from CD (or in virtual machines ISO images), plus lots of various bug fixes.
</p>
<p>
RC4 became necessary as a few very important DRM/KMS issues especially for Intel GPUs have been resolved.
And as an (unexpected) bonus support for the Nintendo Wii has been added to the evbppc port.
</p>
<p>Especially on amd64 machines please notes that we got a new DRM/KMS subsystem version, and this may lead to fallout on
some hardware. Unfortunately not all known bugs from the release engineering
<a href="https://wiki.NetBSD.org/releng/netbsd-10/">pre-release task list</a> could be fixed in time for this release - we will continue to improve the current state and hope to have more of them solved for the next (10.1) release.
</p>
<p>
If you want to test 10.0 RC4 please check the <a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC4/amd64/INSTALL.html">installation notes</a> for your architecture and download the preferred
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC4/images/">install image</a> from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-10 builds from the <a href="https://armbsd.org">bootable ARM images</a> page.
</p>
<p>
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the
<a href="https://mail-index.NetBSD.org">mailing lists</a> or file a <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd">problem report</a>.
</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc3_availableNetBSD 10.0 RC3 available!martin2024-01-17T18:11:06+00:002024-01-17T18:11:06+00:00<p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the third (and probably last)
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC3/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p><p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the third (and probably last)
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC3/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p>
<p>The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release.
</p>
<p>
This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.
</p>
<p>
Since RC1 there have been numerous changes, including major updates to external software included in the release: Postfix, OpenSSH, and the firmware used for Raspberry PI devices. Various issues with RC1 have been fixed, including installer (sysinst) crashes. Lots of architecture specific fixes happend, e.g. various toolchain changes for VAX (so it is now finaly self-hosting again), and kernel changes for macppc, netwinder, and alpha.
</p>
<p>
For RC3 only few (relatively) minor changes were made, including https certificate verification in libfetch (which is used by pkg_ad(1)), and also improvements to the EFI bootloader to better deal with booting from CD (or in virtual machines ISO images), plus lots of various bug fixes.
<p>
Especially on amd64 machines please notes that we got a new DRM/KMS subsystem version, and this may lead to fallout on
some hardware. Unfortunately not all known bugs from the release engineering
<a href="https://wiki.NetBSD.org/releng/netbsd-10/">pre-release task list</a> could be fixed in time for this release - we will continue to improve the current state and hope to have more of them solved for the next (10.1) release.
</p>
<p>
If you want to test 10.0 RC3 please check the <a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC3/amd64/INSTALL.html">installation notes</a> for your architecture and download the preferred
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC3/images/">install image</a> from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-10 builds from the <a href="https://armbsd.org">bootable ARM images</a> page.
</p>
<p>
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the
<a href="https://mail-index.NetBSD.org">mailing lists</a> or file a <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd">problem report</a>.
</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc2_availableNetBSD 10.0 RC2 available!martin2024-01-04T08:21:36+00:002024-01-04T08:21:36+00:00<p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the second (and probably last)
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC2/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p><p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the second (and probably last)
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC2/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release announcement</a> for details.
</p>
<p>The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release.
</p>
<p>
This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.
</p>
<p>
Since RC1 there have been numerous changes, including major updates to external software included in the release: Postfix, OpenSSH, and the firmware used for Raspberry PI devices. Various issues with RC1 have been fixed, including installer (sysinst) crashes. Lots of architecture specific fixes happend, e.g. various toolchain changes for VAX (so it is now finaly self-hosting again), and kernel changes for macppc, netwinder, and alpha.
</p>
<p>
Especially on amd64 machines please notes that we got a new DRM/KMS subsystem version, and this may lead to fallout on
some hardware. Unfortunately not all known bugs from the release engineering
<a href="https://wiki.NetBSD.org/releng/netbsd-10/">pre-release task list</a> could be fixed in time for this release - we will continue to improve the current state and hope to have more of them solved for the next (10.1) release.
</p>
<p>
If you want to test 10.0 RC2 please check the <a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC2/amd64/INSTALL.html">installation notes</a> for your architecture and download the preferred
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC2/images/">install image</a> from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-10 builds from the <a href="https://armbsd.org">bootable ARM images</a> page.
</p>
<p>
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the
<a href="https://mail-index.NetBSD.org">mailing lists</a> or file a <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd">problem report</a>.
</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc1_availableNetBSD 10.0 RC1 available!martin2023-11-11T13:56:20+00:002023-11-11T13:56:20+00:00<p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the first
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC1/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release anouncement</a> for details.
</p><p>
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the first
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC1/">release candidate</a> of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!<br />
See the <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html">release anouncement</a> for details.
</p>
<p>The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the developement branch to get ready for branching, a lot of developement went into this new release.
</p>
<p>
This also caused the release anouncement to be one of the longest we ever did.
</p>
<p>
Especially on amd64 machines please notes that we got a new DRM/KMS subsystem version, and this may lead to fallout on
some hardware. Unfortunately not all known bugs from the release engineering
<a href="https://wiki.NetBSD.org/releng/netbsd-10/">pre-release task list</a> could be fixed in time for this release - we will continue to improve the current state and hope to have more of them solved for the next (10.1) release.
</p>
<p>
If you want to test 10.0 RC1 please check the <a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC1/amd64/INSTALL.html">installation notes</a> for your architecture and download the prefered
<a href="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC1/images/">install image</a> from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-10 builds from the <a href="https://armbsd.org">bootable ARM images</a> page.
</p>
<p>
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the
<a href="https://mail-index.NetBSD.org">mailing lists</a> or file a <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd">problem report</a>.
</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_3_releasedNetBSD 9.3 releasedNia Alarie2022-08-06T13:55:55+00:002022-08-06T13:55:55+00:00<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.3, the third release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch.</p>
<p>It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 9.2 in May 2021, as well some enhancements backported from the development branch. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 9.0. Users running 9.2 or an earlier release are strongly recommended to upgrade.</p><p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.3, the third release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch.</p>
<p>It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 9.2 in May 2021, as well some enhancements backported from the development branch. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 9.0. Users running 9.2 or an earlier release are strongly recommended to upgrade.</p>
<p>Aside from many bug fixes, 9.3 includes backported <strong>improvements to suspend and resume support</strong>, various minor additions of new hardware to existing device drivers, compatibility with <strong>UDF file systems created on Windows 10</strong>, enhanced support for newer Intel Gigabit Ethernet chipsets, better support for <strong>new Intel and AMD Zen 3 chipsets</strong>, support for <strong>configuring connections to Wi-Fi networks using sysinst(8)</strong>, support for <strong>wsfb-based X11 servers on the Commodore Amiga</strong>, and minor <strong>performance improvements for the Xen hypervisor</strong>.</p>
<p>The general NetBSD community is very excited about NetBSD 10.0, but it was deemed necessary to make this bug fix release available while we wait for the resolution of some compatibility problems in NetBSD-current concerning FFS Access Control Lists preventing the <code>netbsd-10</code> release.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.3.html">Full release notes, including download links</a></strong></p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_2_releasedNetBSD 9.2 releasedNia Alarie2021-05-17T14:06:03+00:002021-05-17T14:37:04+00:00<p> The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.2 "Nakatomi Socrates", the second update of the NetBSD 9 release branch.</p>
<p>As well as the usual bug, stability, and security fixes, this release includes: support for exporting ZFS filesystems over NFS, various updates to the bozotic HTTP daemon, improvements to ARM 32-bit and Linux compatibility, <code>fread()</code> performance improvements, support for the TP-Link TL-WN821N V6 wireless adapter, support for the Allwinner H5 cryptographic accelerator, Pinebook Pro display brightness fixes, new defaults for <code>kern.maxfiles</code>, and accessibility improvements for the default window manager configuration.</p>
<p><a href="//www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.2.html">Release notes and download links for NetBSD 9.2</a></p><p> The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.2 "Nakatomi Socrates", the second update of the NetBSD 9 release branch.</p>
<p>As well as the usual bug, stability, and security fixes, this release includes: support for exporting ZFS filesystems over NFS, various updates to the bozotic HTTP daemon, improvements to ARM 32-bit and Linux compatibility, <code>fread()</code> performance improvements, support for the TP-Link TL-WN821N V6 wireless adapter, support for the Allwinner H5 cryptographic accelerator, Pinebook Pro display brightness fixes, new defaults for <code>kern.maxfiles</code>, and accessibility improvements for the default window manager configuration.</p>
<p><a href="//www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.2.html">Release notes and download links for NetBSD 9.2</a></p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_1_releasedNetBSD 9.1 releasedmartin2020-10-21T04:19:23+00:002020-10-21T04:19:23+00:00<p>NetBSD 9.1, the first maintenance update for the NetBSD 9 branch, has been released</p><p>After a small delay<super><a href="#footnote_delay">*</a></super>, the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce <a href="https://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2020/10/21/msg000321.html">NetBSD 9.1</a>, the first feature and stability maintenance release of the netbsd-9 stable branch.</p>
<p>
The new release features (among various other changes) many bug fixes,
a few performance enhancements, stability improvements for ZFS and LFS
and support for USB security keys in a mode easily usable in Firefox
and other applications.</p>
<p>
For more details and instructions see the <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.1.html">9.1 announcement</a>.</p>
<p>
Get NetBSD 9.1 from our <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.1/">CDN</a> (provided by <a href="http://www.fastly.com/">fastly</a>) or one of the ftp mirrors.</p>
<p>
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>
<p style="font-size: 0.8em" name="footnote_delay">* for the delay: let us say there was a minor hickup and we took the opportunity to provide up to date timezone files for NetBSD users in Fiji.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/extending_support_for_the_netbsdExtending support for the NetBSD-7 branchMaya Rashish2020-04-02T12:42:55+00:002020-04-02T12:42:55+00:00<p>Typically, some time after releasing a new NetBSD major version (such as NetBSD 9.0), we will announce the end-of-life of the N-2 branch, in this case NetBSD-7.</p>
<p>We've decided to hold off on doing that to ensure our users don't feel rushed to perform a major version update on any remote machines, possibly needing to reach the machine if anything goes wrong.</p>
<p>Security fixes will still be made to the NetBSD-7 branch.</p>
<p>We hope you're all safe. Stay home.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_2_is_availableNetBSD 8.2 is available!Maya Rashish2020-04-02T12:42:51+00:002020-04-02T12:42:51+00:00<p>The third release in the NetBSD-8 is now available.</p>
<p>This release includes all the security fixes in NetBSD-8 up until this point, and other fixes deemed important for stability.</p>
<p>Some highlights include:</p>
<ul>
<li>x86: fixed regression in booting old CPUs</li>
<li>x86: Hyper-V Gen.2 VM framebuffer support</li>
<li><a href="//man.NetBSD.org//NetBSD-8.0/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a>: fixed various security issues</li>
<li><a href="//man.NetBSD.org/NetBSD-8.0/ixg.4">ixg(4)</a>: various fixes / improvements</li>
<li>x86 efiboot: add tftp support, fix issues on machines with many memory segments, improve graphics mode logic to work on more machines.</li>
<li>Various kernel memory info leaks fixes</li>
<li>Update expat to 2.2.8</li>
<li>Fix ryzen USB issues and support xHCI version 3.10.</li>
<li>Accept root device specification as NAME=label.</li>
<li>Add multiboot 2 support to x86 bootloaders.</li>
<li>Fix for CVE-2019-9506: 'Key Negotiation of Bluetooth' attack.</li>
<li>nouveau: limit the supported devices and fix firmware loading.</li>
<li>radeon: fix loading of the TAHITI VCE firmware.</li>
<li><a href="//man.NetBSD.org/NetBSD-8.0/named.8">named(8)</a>: stop using obsolete dnssec-lookaside.</li>
</ul>
<p>
You can download binaries of <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.2/">NetBSD 8.2</a>
from our Fastly-provided CDN.</p>
<p>
For more details refer to the
<a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.2/CHANGES-8.2">CHANGES-8.2</a> file.</p>
<p>Please note that we are looking for donations again, see <a href="//blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/fundraising_2020">Fundraising 2020</a>.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Maya</p>
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_0_availableNetBSD 9.0 available!martin2020-02-15T14:56:08+00:002020-02-15T14:56:08+00:00<p>Six months after the start of the release engineering process, NetBSD 9.0 is now available.</p>
<p>The NetBSD 9.0 release comes with many new features and lots of improvements over the NetBSD 8.1 release...</p><p>Sixth months after the start of the release engineering process, NetBSD 9.0 is now available.</p>
<p>Since the start of the release process a lot of improvements
went into the branch - over 700 pullups were processed!</p>
<p>This includes usbnet (a common framework for usb ethernet drivers), aarch64
stability enhancements and lots of new hardware support, installer/sysinst
fixes and changes to the NVMM (hardware virtualization) interface.</p>
<p>
We hope this will lead to the <b>best NetBSD release ever</b> (only to be topped by NetBSD 10 - hopefully later this year).</p>
<p>Here are a few highlights of the new release:</p>
<ul>
<li> Support for Arm AArch64 (64-bit Armv8-A) machines, including
"Arm ServerReady" compliant machines (SBBR+SBSA)</li>
<li> Enhanced hardware support for Armv7-A</li>
<li> Updated GPU drivers (e.g. support for Intel Kabylake)</li>
<li> Enhanced virtualization support</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/from_zero_to_nvmm">Support for hardware-accelerated virtualization (NVMM)</a></li>
<li> Support for Performance Monitoring Counters</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_aslr_on_amd64">Support for Kernel ASLR</a></li>
<li> Support several kernel sanitizers (<a href="https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/maxv/kleak.pdf">KLEAK</a>, KASAN, KUBSAN)</li>
<li> Support for userland sanitizers</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/network_security_audit">Audit of the network stack</a></li>
<li> Many improvements in NPF</li>
<li> Updated ZFS</li>
<li> Reworked error handling and NCQ support in the SATA subsystem</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/a_story_of_networking_and">Support a common framework for USB Ethernet drivers (usbnet)</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
You can download binaries of <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0/">NetBSD 9.0</a>
from our Fastly-provided CDN.</p>
<p>
For more details refer to the official
<a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.0.html">release announcement</a>.</p>
<p>Please note that we are looking for donations again, see <a href="//blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/fundraising_2020">Fundraising 2020</a>.</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Martin</p>
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/second_final_release_candidate_forSecond (final) release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available!martin2020-02-02T21:35:33+00:002020-02-02T21:42:26+00:00<p>Six months after the start of the release engineering process for 9.0, the second (and most likely final) release candidate is now available.</p>
<p>The NetBSD 9.0 release comes with many new features and lots of improvements over the NetBSD 8.1 release...</p><p>Sixth months after the start of the release engineering process for 9.0, the second (and most likely final) release candidate is now available.</p>
<p>Shortly after the first release candidate had been published and
feedback came it, it became clear that this was not going to be the
final state of 9.0. In the end a lot of fixes were done, but we used
the opportunity to also incorporate more hardware support (Pinebook
Pro) and update a few components (dhcpcd, openssl).</p>
<p>We will be very restrictive with further changes and expect a quick
and smooth release from this point on. Tentative release date
is February 14, 2020.</p>
<p>Since the start of the release process a lot of improvements
went into the branch - nearly 700 pullups were processed!</p>
<p>This includes usbnet (a common framework for usb ethernet drivers), aarch64
stability enhancements and lots of new hardware support, installer/sysinst
fixes and changes to the NVMM (hardware virtualization) interface.</p>
<p>
We hope this will lead to the <b>best NetBSD release ever</b> (only to be topped by NetBSD 10 - hopefully later this year).</p>
<p>Here are a few highlights of the new release:</p>
<ul>
<li> Support for Arm AArch64 (64-bit Armv8-A) machines, including
"Arm ServerReady" compliant machines (SBBR+SBSA)</li>
<li> Enhanced hardware support for Armv7-A</li>
<li> Updated GPU drivers (e.g. support for Intel Kabylake)</li>
<li> Enhanced virtualization support</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/from_zero_to_nvmm">Support for hardware-accelerated virtualization (NVMM)</a></li>
<li> Support for Performance Monitoring Counters</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_aslr_on_amd64">Support for Kernel ASLR</a></li>
<li> Support several kernel sanitizers (<a href="https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/maxv/kleak.pdf">KLEAK</a>, KASAN, KUBSAN)</li>
<li> Support for userland sanitizers</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/network_security_audit">Audit of the network stack</a></li>
<li> Many improvements in NPF</li>
<li> Updated ZFS</li>
<li> Reworked error handling and NCQ support in the SATA subsystem</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/a_story_of_networking_and">Support a common framework for USB Ethernet drivers (usbnet)</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
You can download binaries of <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0_RC2/">NetBSD 9.0_RC2</a>
from our Fastly-provided CDN.</p>
<p>
For more details refer to the official
<a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.0.html">release announcement</a>.</p>
<p>Please help us out by testing 9.0_RC2. We love any and all feedback.
Report problems through the usual channels (submit a PR or write to the
appropriate list). More general feedback is welcome, please mail releng.
Your input will help us put the finishing touches on what promises to be a
great release!</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Martin</p>
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/first_release_candidate_for_netbsdFirst release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available!martin2019-12-02T15:54:09+00:002019-12-02T17:05:39+00:00<p>Four months after the start of the release engineering process for 9.0, the first (and hopefully only) release candidate is now available.</p>
<p>The NetBSD 9.0 release comes with many new features and lots of improvements over the NetBSD 8.1 release...</p><p>Since the start of the release process four months ago a lot of improvements
went into the branch - more than 500 pullups were processed!</p>
<p>This includes usbnet (a common framework for usb ethernet drivers), aarch64
stability enhancements and lots of new hardware support, installer/sysinst
fixes and changes to the NVMM (hardware virtualization) interface.</p>
<p>
We hope this will lead to the <b>best NetBSD release ever</b> (only to be topped by NetBSD 10 next year).</p>
<p>Here are a few highlights of the new release:</p>
<ul>
<li> Support for Arm AArch64 (64-bit Armv8-A) machines, including
"Arm ServerReady" compliant machines (SBBR+SBSA)</li>
<li> Enhanced hardware support for Armv7-A</li>
<li> Updated GPU drivers (e.g. support for Intel Kabylake)</li>
<li> Enhanced virtualization support</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/from_zero_to_nvmm">Support for hardware-accelerated virtualization (NVMM)</a></li>
<li> Support for Performance Monitoring Counters</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_aslr_on_amd64">Support for Kernel ASLR</a></li>
<li> Support several kernel sanitizers (<a href="https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/maxv/kleak.pdf">KLEAK</a>, KASAN, KUBSAN)</li>
<li> Support for userland sanitizers</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/network_security_audit">Audit of the network stack</a></li>
<li> Many improvements in NPF</li>
<li> Updated ZFS</li>
<li> Reworked error handling and NCQ support in the SATA subsystem</li>
<li> <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/a_story_of_networking_and">Support a common framework for USB Ethernet drivers (usbnet)</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
You can download binaries of <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0_RC1/">NetBSD 9.0_RC1</a>
from our Fastly-provided CDN.</p>
<p>
For more details refer to the official
<a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.0.html">release announcement</a>.</p>
<p>Please help us out by testing 9.0_RC1. We love any and all feedback.
Report problems through the usual channels (submit a PR or write to the
appropriate list). More general feedback is welcome, please mail releng.
Your input will help us put the finishing touches on what promises to be a
great release!</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Martin</p>
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_0_release_processNetBSD 9.0 release process has startedMaya Rashish2019-07-31T07:46:57+00:002019-07-31T10:16:30+00:00<p>
NetBSD-9 has been branched, with support for AArch64, a new hypervisor, and support for newer machines.
<a href="https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/latest/">Binaries are available</a>, please test them and let us know of any bugs!
</p>If you have been following source-changes, you may have noticed the creation of the netbsd-9 branch!
It has some really exciting items that we worked on:
<ul>
<li>New AArch64 architecture support:
<ul>
<li>Symmetric and asymmetrical multiprocessing support (aka big.LITTLE)</li>
<li>Support for running 32-bit binaries</li>
<li>UEFI and ACPI support</li>
<li>Support for SBSA/SBBR (server-class) hardware.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The FDT-ization of many ARM boards:
<ul>
<li>the 32-bit GENERIC kernel lists 129 different DTS configurations</li>
<li>the 64-bit GENERIC64 kernel lists 74 different DTS configurations</li>
<div>All supported by a single kernel, without requiring per-board configurations.</div>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Graphics driver update, matching Linux 4.4, adding support for up to Kaby Lake based Intel graphics devices.</li>
<li>ZFS has been updated to a modern version and seen many bugfixes.</li>
<li>New <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/from_zero_to_nvmm">hardware-accelerated virtualization via NVMM.</a></li>
<li>NPF performance improvements and bug fixes. A new lookup algorithm, thmap, is now the default.</li>
<li>NVMe performance improvements</li>
<li>Optional <a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_strongest_kaslr_ever">kernel ASLR</a> support, and partial kernel ASLR for the default configuration.</li>
<li>Kernel sanitizers:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/maxv/kleak.pdf">KLEAK</a>, detecting memory leaks</li>
<li>KASAN, detecting memory overruns</li>
<li>KUBSAN, detecting undefined behaviour</li>
<div>These have been used together with continuous fuzzing via the <a href="https://github.com/google/syzkaller">syzkaller project</a> to find many bugs that were fixed.</div>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The <a href="https://wiki.netbsd.org/attic_museum/">removal of outdated networking components</a> such as ISDN and all of its drivers</li>
<li>The installer is now capable of performing GPT UEFI installations.</li>
<li>Dramatically improved support for userland sanitizers, as well as the option to build all of NetBSD's userland using them for bug-finding.</li>
<li>Update to graphics userland: Mesa was updated to 18.3.4, and llvmpipe is now available for several architectures, providing 3D graphics even in the absence of a supported GPU.</li>
</ul>
<p>We try to test NetBSD as best as we can, but your testing can help NetBSD 9.0 a great release. Please test it and <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd">let us know of any bugs you find</a>.</p>
<p>You can find <a href="https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/latest/">binaries here</a>.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_1_availableNetBSD 8.1 availablemartin2019-06-05T12:08:44+00:002019-06-05T12:08:44+00:00<p>NetBSD 8.1 is available!</p> <p>
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce <a href="https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2019/06/05/msg000300.html">NetBSD 8.1</a>, the first feature and stability maintenance release of the netbsd-8 stable branch.</p>
<p>
Besides the workarounds for the latest CPU specific vulnerabilities, this also includes many bug fixes and a few selected new drivers.
For more details and instructions see the <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.1.html">8.1 announcement</a>.</p>
<p>
Get NetBSD 8.1 from our <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1/">CDN</a> (provided by <a href="http://www.fastly.com/">fastly</a>) or one of the ftp mirrors.</p>
<p>
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>
<p>
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_1_release_candidateNetBSD 8.1 Release Candidate 1martin2019-05-20T13:30:42+00:002019-05-20T13:30:42+00:00<p>Nearly a year after the initial release of NetBSD 8.0, and lots of changes on the stable branch, a new release 8.1 is upcoming.</p>
<p>Binaries of the first (and most likely only) release candidate are available for testing.</p><p>
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.1 RC1, the first (and hopefully final) release candidate for the upcoming NetBSD 8.1 release.</p>
<p>
Over the last year, many changes have been made to the NetBSD 8 stable branch. As a stable branch the release engineering team and the NetBSD developers are conservative with changes to this branch and many users rely on the binaries from our regular auto-builds for production use. Now it is high time to cut a formal release, right before we go into the next release cycle with the upcoming branch for NetBSD 9.</p>
<p>
Besides the workarounds for the latest CPU specific vulnerabilities, this also includes many bug fixes and a few selected new drivers.
For more details and instructions see the <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.1.html">8.1 RC1 announcement</a>.</p>
<p>
Get NetBSD 8.1 RC1 from our <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1_RC1/">CDN</a> (provided by <a href="http://www.fastly.com/">fastly</a>) or one of the ftp mirrors.</p>
<p>
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at <a href="https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>
<p>
Please test RC1, we are looking forward to your feedback. Please send-pr any bugs or mail us at releng at NetBSD.org for more general comments.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_2_releasedNetBSD 7.2 releasedmartin2018-09-03T13:30:02+00:002018-09-03T13:30:02+00:00<p>
The NetBSD 7.2 release is available now.
</p>
<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.2, the second feature update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.
</p>
<p>If you are running an earlier release of NetBSD and are (for whatever reasons) not able to update to the latest major release,
<a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.0.html">NetBSD 8.0</a>, we
suggest updating to 7.2.</p>
<p>For more details, please see the
<a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.2.html">
release notes</a>.</p>
<p>Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at
many sites around the world and our
<a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.2/">CDN</a>.
A list of download sites providing FTP,
AnonCVS, and other services may be found at the <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">list of mirrors</a>.
</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/end_of_life_for_netbsd1End of life for NetBSD 6.xsnj2018-08-23T06:20:38+00:002018-08-23T06:20:38+00:00<p>In keeping with NetBSD's policy of supporting only the latest (8.x) and next most recent (7.x) major branches, the recent release of NetBSD 8.0 marks the end of life for NetBSD 6.x. As in the past, a month of overlapping support has been provided in order to ease the migration to newer releases.</p>
<p>As of now, the following branches are no longer maintained:
<ul>
<li>netbsd-6-1</li>
<li>netbsd-6-0</li>
<li>netbsd-6</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>This means:
<ul>
<li>There will be no more pullups to those branches (even for security issues)</li>
<li>There will be no security advisories made for any those branches</li>
<li>The existing 6.x releases on ftp.NetBSD.org will be moved into /pub/NetBSD-archive/</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>May NetBSD 8.0 serve you well! (And if it doesn't, please submit a PR!)</p>
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/changes_to_netbsd_release_supportChanges to NetBSD release support policysnj2018-07-25T16:36:15+00:002018-07-25T16:36:15+00:00<p>The NetBSD release engineering team is announcing a new support policy for our release branches. This affects NetBSD 8.0 and subsequent major releases (9.0, 10.0, etc.). All currently supported releases (6.x and 7.x) will keep their existing support policies.</p>
<p>Beginning with NetBSD 8.0, there will be no more teeny branches (e.g., netbsd-8-0).</p>
<p>This means that netbsd-8 will be the only branch for 8.x and there will be only one category of releases derived from 8.0: update releases. The first update release after 8.0 will be 8.1, the next will be 8.2, and so on. Update releases will contain security and bug fixes, and may contain new features and enhancements that are deemed safe for the release branch.</p>
<p>With this simplification of our support policy, users can expect:</p>
<ul>
<li>More frequent releases</li>
<li>Better long-term support (example: quicker fixes for security issues, since there is only one branch to fix per major release)</li>
<li>New features and enhancements to make their way to binary releases faster (under our current scheme, no major release has received more than two feature updates in its life)</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>We understand that users of teeny branches may be concerned about the increased number of changes that update releases will bring. Historically, NetBSD stable branches (e.g., netbsd-7) have been managed very conservatively. Under this new scheme, the release engineering team will be even more strict in what changes we allow on the stable branch. Changes that would create issues with backwards compatibility are not allowed, and any changes made that prove to be problematic will be promptly reverted.</p>
<p>The support policy we've had until now was nice in theory, but it has not worked out in practice. We believe that this change will benefit
the situation for vast majority of NetBSD users.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_0_releasedNetBSD 8.0 releasedmartin2018-07-22T09:00:00+00:002018-07-22T09:00:00+00:00<p>
The NetBSD 8.0 release is available now.
</p>
<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.0, the sixteenth
major release of the NetBSD operating system. It represents many bug fixes, additional hardware support and
new security features.
If you are running an earlier release of NetBSD, we strongly
suggest updating to 8.0.</p>
<p>For more details, please see the
<a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.0.html">
release notes</a>.</p>
<p>Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at
many sites around the world and our
<a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/">CDN</a>.
A list of download sites providing FTP,
AnonCVS, and other services may be found at the <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">list of mirrors</a>.
</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_0_release_candidate1NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2martin2018-07-02T19:36:34+00:002018-07-02T19:36:34+00:00<p>
The second (and hopefully final) release candidate for NetBSD 8.0 is available now.
</p>
<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.0 RC 2, the second (and hopefully final) release candidate for the upcoming NetBSD 8.0 release.</p>
<p>
Unfortunately the first release candidate did not hold up in our extensive testing (also know as eating our own dog food):
many NetBSD.org servers/machines were updated to it and worked fine, but the auto build cluster, where we produce our binaries, did
not work well. The issue was tracked down to a driver bug (Intel 10 GBit ethernet), only showing up in certain configurations, and it
has been fixed now.
</p>
<p>
Other security events, like the new FPU related exploit on some Intel CPUs, caused further kernel changes, so we are not going
to release NetBSD 8.0 directly, but instead provide this new release candidate for additional testing.
</p>
<p>The official <a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2018/07/02/msg000288.html">RC2 announcement</a> list these major changes compared to older releases:
<ul>
<li>USB stack rework, USB3 support added</li>
<li>In-kernel audio mixer</li>
<li>Reproducible builds</li>
<li>Full userland debug information (MKDEBUG) available. While most install media do not come with them (for size reasons), the debug and xdebug sets can be downloaded and extracted as needed later. They provide full symbol information for all base system and X binaries and libraries and allow better error reporting and (userland) crash analyzis. </li>
<li>PaX MPROTECT (W^X) memory protection enforced by default on some
architectures with fine-grained memory protection and suitable
ELF formats: i386, amd64, evbarm, landisk, pmax</li>
<li>PaX ASLR enabled by default on:<br />
i386, amd64, evbarm, landisk, pmax, sparc64</li>
<li>MKPIE (position independent executables) by default for userland
on: i386, amd64, arm, m68k, mips, sh3, sparc64</li>
<li>added can(4), a socket layer for CAN busses</li>
<li>added ipsecif(4) for route-based VPNs</li>
<li>made part of the network stack MP-safe</li>
NET_MPSAFE kernel option is required to try</li>
<li>WAPBL stability and performance improvements</li>
</ul><br />
Specific to i386 and amd64 CPUs:
<ul>
<li>Meltdown mitigation: SVS (separate virtual address spaces)</li>
<li>Spectre mitigation (support in gcc, used by default for kernels)</li>
<li>Lazy cpu saving disabled on some Intel CPUs ("eagerfpu")
<li>SMAP support</li>
<li>(U)EFI bootloader</li>
</ul><br />
Various new drivers:
<ul>
<li>nvme(4) for modern solid state disks</li>
<li>iwm(4), a driver for Intel Wireless devices (AC7260, AC7265, AC3160...)</li>
<li>ixg(4): X540, X550 and newer device support.</li>
<li>ixv(4): Intel 10G Ethernet virtual function driver.</li>
<li>bta2dpd - new Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile daemon</li>
</ul><br />
Many evbarm kernels now use FDT (flat device tree) information
(loadable at boot time from an external file) for device configuration,
the number of kernels has decreased but the numer of boards has vastly
increased.<br />
</ul><br />
Lots of updates to 3rd party software included:
<ul>
<li>GCC 5.5 with support for Address Sanitizer and Undefined Behavior Sanitizer</li>
<li>GDB 7.12</li>
<li>GNU binutils 2.27</li>
<li>Clang/LLVM 3.8.1</li>
<li>OpenSSH 7.6</li>
<li>OpenSSL 1.0.2k</li>
<li>mdocml 1.14.1</li>
<li>acpica 20170303</li>
<li>ntp 4.2.8p11-o</li>
<li>dhcpcd 7.0.6</li>
<li>Lua 5.3.4</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>The NetBSD developers and the release engineering team have spent a lot of effort to make sure NetBSD 8.0 will be a superb release, but we have not yet fixed most of the accompanying documentation. So the included release notes and install documents will be updated before the final release, and also the above list of major items may lack important things.</p>
<p>Get NetBSD 8.0 RC2 from <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0_RC2/">our CDN</a> (provided by <a href="http://www.fastly.com/">fastly</a>) or one of the ftp mirrors.</p>
<p>Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>
<p>Please test RC2, so we can make the final release the best one ever so far. We are looking forward to your feedback. Please send-pr any bugs or mail us at releng at NetBSD.org for more general comments.</p>
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https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_0_release_candidateNetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 1martin2018-04-25T11:55:07+00:002018-04-25T11:55:07+00:00<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.0 RC 1, the first release candidate for the upcoming NetBSD 8.0 release.</p>
<p>25 years and a few days after the first official NetBSD release (<a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-0.8/">NetBSD 0.8 on April 19, 1993</a>) we are now quickly approaching the first final release from the netbsd-8 branch that has been in the work for more most of a year now.</p>
<p>The official <a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2018/04/23/msg000285.html">RC1 announcement</a> list these major changes compared to older releases:
<ul>
<li>USB stack rework, USB3 support added</li>
<li>In-kernel audio mixer</li>
<li>Reproducible builds</li>
<li>PaX MPROTECT (W^X) memory protection enforced by default on some
architectures with fine-grained memory protection and suitable
ELF formats: i386, amd64, evbarm, landisk, pmax</li>
<li>PaX ASLR enabled by default on:<br />
i386, amd64, evbarm, landisk, pmax, sparc64</li>
<li>MKPIE (position independent executables) by default for userland
on: i386, amd64, arm, m68k, mips, sh3, sparc64</li>
<li>added can(4), a socket layer for CAN busses</li>
<li>added ipsecif(4) for route-based VPNs</li>
<li>made part of the network stack MP-safe</li>
NET_MPSAFE kernel option is required to try</li>
<li>WAPBL stability and performance improvements</li>
</ul><br />
Specific to i386 and amd64 CPUs:
<ul>
<li>Meltdown mitigation: SVS (separate virtual address spaces)</li>
<li>Spectre mitigation (support in gcc, used by default for kernels)</li>
<li>SMAP support</li>
<li>(U)EFI bootloader</li>
</ul><br />
Various new drivers:
<ul>
<li>nvme(4) for modern solid state disks</li>
<li>iwm(4), a driver for Intel Wireless devices (AC7260, AC7265, AC3160...)</li>
<li>ixg(4): X540, X550 and newer device support.</li>
<li>ixv(4): Intel 10G Ethernet virtual function driver.</li>
<li>bta2dpd - new Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile daemon</li>
</ul><br />
Many evbarm kernels now use FDT (flat device tree) information
(loadable at boot time from an external file) for device configuration,
the number of kernels has decreased but the numer of boards has vastly
increased.<br />
</ul><br />
Lots of updates to 3rd party software included:
<ul>
<li>GCC 5.5 with support for Address Sanitizer and Undefined Behavior Sanitizer</li>
<li>GDB 7.12</li>
<li>GNU binutils 2.27</li>
<li>Clang/LLVM 3.8.1</li>
<li>OpenSSH 7.6</li>
<li>OpenSSL 1.0.2k</li>
<li>mdocml 1.14.1</li>
<li>acpica 20170303</li>
<li>ntp 4.2.8p11-o</li>
<li>dhcpcd 7.0.3</li>
<li>Lua 5.3.4</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>The NetBSD developers and the release engineering team have spent a lot of effort to make sure NetBSD 8.0 will be a superb release, but we have not yet fixed most of the accompanying documentation. So the included release notes and install documents will be updated before the final release, and also the above list of major items may lack important things.</p>
<p>Get NetBSD 8.0 RC1 from <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0_RC1/">our CDN</a> (provided by <a href="http://www.fastly.com/">fastly</a>) or one of the ftp mirrors.</p>
<p>Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>
<p>Please test RC1, so we can make the final release the best one ever so far. We are looking forward to your feedback. Please send-pr any bugs or mail us at releng at NetBSD.org for more general comments.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/boosting_the_netbsd_release_handlingBoosting the NetBSD release handlingmartin2018-03-25T10:13:44+00:002018-03-25T10:13:44+00:00Trying to make the NetBSD release process quicker and smoother...<br /><p>In recent years, no one in the releng team has had adequate time
to devote to release engineering work. To address this shortcoming, the
foundation has agreed to pay me part time to carry out the following duties:
<ul>
<li>process pullup tickets</li>
<li>write and update release notes</li>
<li>coordinate with the security team</li>
<li>plan for future releases and release milestones</li>
<li>identify and document critical bugs preventing a release</li>
<li>create documents/web-/wikipages describing the current status of
releases/release branches and keep them up to date</li>
<li>identify missing pullups and push developers to submit pullup
requests</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>While this does not automatically provide developer time (still
subject to volunteer time and motivation), it is however still a major
step forward towards handling the release cycle, which is (currently)
taking too long, in a professional manner.
</p>
<p>We hope to
<ul>
<li>Speed up the release process for all pending releases on all active
branches, as specified by the releng team and documented
on the releng wiki page(s)</li>
<li>Make the release process more transparent by providing up to date
and easily accessible status documents</li>
<li>Create better releases by making sure critical bugs get identified
and fixed (if possible)</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>To help the other issue mentioned above, we plan to offer (small) bug
bounties for bugs identified as release show-stoppers.</p>
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_1_2_releasedNetBSD 7.1.2 releasedsnj2018-03-19T05:51:19+00:002018-03-19T05:51:19+00:00<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1.2, the second security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 7.1 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. If you are running an earlier release of NetBSD, we strongly suggest updating to 7.1.2.</p>
<p>For more details, please see the <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.1.2.html">release notes</a>.</p>
<p>Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_1_1_releasedNetBSD 7.1.1 releasedsnj2017-12-28T08:22:55+00:002017-12-29T19:30:58+00:00<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1.1, the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 7.1 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. If you are running an earlier release of NetBSD, we strongly suggest updating to 7.1.1.</p>
<p>For more details, please see the <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.1.1.html">release notes</a>.</p>
<p>Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_0_release_processNetBSD 8.0 release process underwaysnj2017-06-06T08:31:15+00:002017-06-06T08:31:15+00:00<p>If you've been reading source-changes@, you likely noticed the recent creation of the netbsd-8 branch. If you haven't been reading source-changes@, here's some news: the netbsd-8 branch has been created, signaling the beginning of the release process for NetBSD 8.0.</p>
<p>We don't have a strict timeline for the 8.0 release, but things are looking pretty good at the moment, and we expect this release to happen in a shorter amount of time than the last couple major releases did.</p>
<p>At this point, we would love for folks to test out netbsd-8 and let us know how it goes. A couple of major improvements since 7.0 are the addition of USB 3 support and an overhaul of the audio subsystem, including an in-kernel mixer. Feedback about these areas is particularly desired.</p>
<p>To download the latest binaries built from the netbsd-8 branch, head to <a href="http://daily-builds.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-8/">http://daily-builds.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-8/</a></p>
<p>Thanks in advance for helping make NetBSD 8.0 a stellar release!</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_1_releasedNetBSD 7.1 releasedsnj2017-03-15T09:52:19+00:002017-03-15T09:52:19+00:00<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.</p>
<p>Some highlights of NetBSD 7.1 are:
<ul>
<li>Support for Raspberry Pi Zero.</li>
<li>Initial DRM/KMS support for NVIDIA graphics cards via nouveau (Disabled by default. Uncomment nouveau and nouveaufb in your kernel config to test).</li>
<li>The addition of vioscsi, a driver for the Google Compute Engine disk.</li>
<li>Linux compatibility improvements, allowing, e.g., the use of Adobe Flash Player 24.</li>
<li>wm(4):
<ul>
<li>C2000 KX and 2.5G support.</li>
<li>Wake On Lan support.</li>
<li>82575 and newer SERDES based systems now work.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>ODROID-C1 Ethernet now works.</li>
<li>Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>For more details, please see the <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.1.html">release notes</a>.</p>
<p>Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_1_rc1_availableNetBSD 7.1_RC1 availablesnj2017-01-09T08:56:47+00:002017-01-09T08:56:47+00:007.1_RC1 is out! Help us by testing it!<p>The first release candidate of NetBSD 7.1 is now available for download at:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1_RC1/">http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1_RC1/</a></p>
<p>Those of you who prefer to build from source can continue to follow the netbsd-7 branch or use the netbsd-7-1-RC1 tag.</p>
<p>There have been quite a lot of changes since 7.0. See <a href="http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/doc/Attic/CHANGES-7.1?rev=1.1.2.144&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=netbsd-7">src/doc/CHANGES-7.1</a> for the full list.</p>
<p>Please help us out by testing 7.1_RC1. We love any and all feedback. Report problems through the usual channels (submit a PR or write to the appropriate list). More general feedback is welcome at releng@NetBSD.org.</p>https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_0_1_released1NetBSD 7.0.2 releasedsnj2016-10-27T04:02:37+00:002016-10-27T04:02:37+00:00<p>The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.0.2, the second security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 7.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. If you are running an earlier release of NetBSD, we strongly suggest updating to 7.0.2.</p>
<p>For more details, please see the <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.0.2.html">release notes</a>.</p>
<p>Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/">http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/</a>.</p>