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NetBSD 8.0 release process underway


June 06, 2017 posted by Soren Jacobsen

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.

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.

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.

To download the latest binaries built from the netbsd-8 branch, head to http://daily-builds.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-8/

Thanks in advance for helping make NetBSD 8.0 a stellar release!

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Some highlights: - DTrace! ASan! UBSan! - Most platforms provide fenv.h now! - Toolchain updates! clang 4.0 and GCC 5.4 - USB 3 - The sdmmc stack now supports UHS-I and HS200 transfer modes. The sdhc and the amlogic sd controller (ODROID C1) drivers take advantage of this now. Security: - W\^X memory mappings by default. - ASLR default (for PIE binaries) amd64: - kernel no longer has WX pages - Disallowing mapping of zero page - Kernel is mapped using large 2MB pages - Nouveau DRM driver - Native UEFI bootloader ARM: - Great support for some nvidia tegra boards (go jmcneill go!) - Probably more but I don't follow ARM closely! MIPS: - Now uses generic pmap shared with powerpc (possibly will be shared with ARM too depending on progress). - Much more stable! (lots of little fixes) - pmax (oldest MIPS) switched to common MIPS bus_dma VAX, pmax: - TC USB! you can now use USB via turbochannel.

Posted by shitty_po on June 06, 2017 at 11:47 PM UTC #

Will this version have a threaded IP stack? Either way I love NetBSD and I'm glad to see it continue onward.

Posted by Ch on June 09, 2017 at 10:43 PM UTC #

Hi ! Please fix problems in NetBSD 7 releases - problems with USB stick. Anu USB stick when deatached from port USB was crashed system.

Posted by Capitan Nemo on June 12, 2017 at 09:47 PM UTC #

Pretty excited about dtrace and even more so to see the pmax getting some love and hopefully I can get my tc usb up and running on 24mb ram. Nice one! Looking forward to it all.

Posted by uridium on July 05, 2017 at 01:07 AM UTC #

It would be nice if wvstreams, wvdial, wvconf were added to the base installation set.

Posted by Morioe on July 12, 2017 at 01:54 AM UTC #

When is netbsd 8.0 version released to public. ?

Posted by jyoti allur on July 24, 2017 at 02:34 PM UTC #

Not to be a killjoy, but an in-kernel audio mixer doesn't sound like a great idea to me. Other than that, keep up the good work!

Posted by Yuri D on July 30, 2017 at 08:55 PM UTC #

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