NetBSD 9.0 release process has started

• New AArch64 architecture support:
  • Symmetric and asymmetrical multiprocessing support (aka big.LITTLE)
  • Support for running 32-bit binaries
  • UEFI and ACPI support
  • Support for SBSA/SBBR (server-class) hardware.
• The FDT-ization of many ARM boards:
  • the 32-bit GENERIC kernel lists 129 different DTS configurations
  • the 64-bit GENERIC64 kernel lists 74 different DTS configurations
  All supported by a single kernel, without requiring per-board configurations.
• Graphics driver update, matching Linux 4.4, adding support for up to Kaby Lake based Intel graphics devices.
• ZFS has been updated to a modern version and seen many bugfixes.
• New hardware-accelerated virtualization via NVMM.
• NPF performance improvements and bug fixes. A new lookup algorithm, thmap, is now the default.
• NVMe performance improvements
• Optional kernel ASLR support, and partial kernel ASLR for the default configuration.
• Kernel sanitizers:
  • KLEAK, detecting memory leaks
  • KASAN, detecting memory overruns
  • KUBSAN, detecting undefined behaviour
  These have been used together with continuous fuzzing via the syzkaller project to find many bugs that were fixed.
• The removal of outdated networking components such as ISDN and all of its drivers
• The installer is now capable of performing GPT UEFI installations.
• Dramatically improved support for userland sanitizers, as well as the option to build all of NetBSD's userland using them for bug-finding.
• 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.

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 let us know of any bugs you find.

You can find binaries here.