NetBSD 11.0 released!

The NetBSD project is pleased to (finally) announce the 11.0 release!
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NetBSD 11.0 RC7 available!

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the seventh release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing!
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Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing

This report was written by Henrique Brito as part of Google Summer of Code 2026.

NetBSD is capable of executing Linux compiled binaries through a thin, in-kernel translation layer, compat_linux, which, among many other things, is responsible for ‘capturing’ the syscalls made by the program and calling a stub, which is responsible for generating the expected output and behavior. Generally this stub ends up calling the NetBSD version of the syscall and translating the results in a way a Linux program would expect. Sometimes it has to do more work.

The goal is to use LTP, the already known and battle-tested Linux test suite, to check how close compat_linux is to a native Linux system. Focusing on the syscall aspect of it.

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NetBSD 11.0 RC6 available!

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the sixth release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing!
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NetBSD 11.0 RC5 available!

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fifth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing!
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Annual General Meeting 2026

Today, the NetBSD Foundation had an open annual general meeting in a public IRC channel. It began with presentations, and was followed by a Q&A session where we took questions from the public. Here's the full log.

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NetBSD 11.0 RC4 available!

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing!
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Welcome to Google Summer of Code 2026 contributors!

We are happy to announce that The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Google Summer of Code 2026 with 5 projects!

Here the list of the projects and contributors:

• Improving and Stabilizing the racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD - Artem Belan
• Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD - Dimitris Gounaridis
• Improving RAIDframe - Emmanuel Nyarko
• Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing - Henrique Brito
• Convert a Wi-Fi driver to the new Wi-Fi stack - Vishal@88

From May 1 to May 24 it starts the community bonding period. Contributors will familiarize with the codebase, get in touch with their mentors and the community and work with the mentors to set the deliverables for the project.

Welcome Artem, Dimitris, Emmanuel, Henrique and Vishal!

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NetBSD 11.0 RC3 available!

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the third (and probably final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing!
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NetBSD 11.0 RC2 available!

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing!
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The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Google Summer of Code 2026!

We are happy to announce that The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Google Summer of Code 2026!

Would you like to learn how to contribute to open source? Google Summer of Code is a great chance to contribute to NetBSD and/or pkgsrc!

You can find a list of possible projects at Google Summer of Code project page. Please do not limit yourself to the project list... If have any cool idea/project about NetBSD and/or pkgsrc please also propose your one!

Please reach us via #netbsd-code IRC channel on Libera.Chat and/or via mailing lists.

If you are more interested about Google Summer of Code, please also check the homepage at g.co/gsoc.

Looking forward to a great Summer!

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NetBSD 11.0 RC1 available!

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.

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