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AcademiX GNU/Linux is a Debian Stable-based distribution which works with software which can be used at all levels of education from grade schools through to university. AcademiX includes an installation utility (called EDU) that can be used to install a variety of applications in mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, statistics, electronics, amateur radio, graphics, office, programming - which are accompanied by virtual interactive labs. The distribution uses the MATE desktop by default.
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| 2019-06-05 |
NEW • BSD Release: NetBSD 8.1 |
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NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like open source operating system available for many CPU platforms. The project's latest release is NetBSD 8.1 which provides minor improvements and enhancements over NetBSD 8.0. The project's release announcement reports: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.1, the first update of the NetBSD 8 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Some highlights of the 8.1 release are: x86: Mitigation for INTEL-SA-00233 (MDS). Various local user kernel data leaks fixed. x86: new rc.conf(5) setting smtoff to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading. Various network driver fixes and improvements. Fixes for thread local storage (TLS) in position independent executables (PIE). Fixes to reproducible builds. Fixed a performance regression in tmpfs. DRM/KMS improvements. bwfm(4) wireless driver for Broadcom FullMAC PCI and USB devices added. Various sh(1) fixes. mfii(4) SAS driver added. dhcpcd(8) updated to 7.2.2. httpd(8) updated." A complete list of changes can be found in NetBSD's changes file. Download (pkglist): NetBSD-8.1-amd64.iso (722MB, SHA512, torrent), NetBSD-8.1-i386.iso (684MB, SHA512, torrent). |
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| NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit AlphaServers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through The NetBSD Packages Collection.
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| 2022-12-20 |
Development Release: NetBSD 10.0 BETA |
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NetBSD is a lightweight and highly portable operating system. Following three years of development, the NetBSD project has published a development snapshot for their upcoming 10.0 release: "While NetBSD 10.0 is expected to be a major milestone on performance, especially on multi-core systems, currently the BETA builds have some extra kernel diagnostics enabled that may reduce performance somewhat. Among the features you can expect to find in NetBSD 10 are reworked cryptography, including compatibility with WireGuard, automatic swap encryption, new disk encryption methods, and CPU acceleration in the kernel. In hardware support, there are updated GPU drivers from Linux 5.6, support for more ARM hardware (including Rockchip RK356X, NXP i.MX 8M, Amlogic G12¸ Apple M1, and Raspberry Pi 4), support for new security features found in the latest ARM CPUs, and support for Realtek 2.5 gigabit and new Intel 10/25/40 gigabit ethernet adapters. compat_linux has been ported to AArch64 and DTrace has been ported to MIPS. For retrocomputing enthusiasts, there's improved multiprocessor support on Alpha, and more iMac G5 support. The Xen hypervisor support has received a major rework." Additional information is provided in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA512, pkglist): NetBSD-10.0_BETA-amd64.iso (562MB), NetBSD-10.0_BETA-i386.iso (712MB). |
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| 2022-08-06 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 9.3 |
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The NetBSD project creates a highly portable operating system which runs on a wide range of processors. The project has published a new version in the 9.x series: NetBSD 9.3. "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.3, the third release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch. 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. Aside from many bug fixes, 9.3 includes backported improvements to suspend and resume support, various minor additions of new hardware to existing device drivers, compatibility with UDF file systems created on Windows 10, enhanced support for newer Intel Gigabit Ethernet chipsets, better support for new Intel and AMD Zen 3 chipsets, support for configuring connections to Wi-Fi networks using sysinst(8), support for wsfb-based X11 servers on the Commodore Amiga, and minor performance improvements for the Xen hypervisor." Additional information is provided in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (MD5, pkglist): NetBSD-9.3-amd64.iso (467MB, torrent), NetBSD-9.3-i386.iso (571MB, torrent). |
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| 2021-05-17 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 9.2 |
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NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit AlphaServers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. The project's latest release is NetBSD 9.2 which introduces a number of networking fixes as well as ZFS stability improvements when working with network shares. "netinet: avoid information disclosure, NetBSD-SA2021-001: Predictable ID disclosures in IPv4 and IPv6. netinet: fixed 'multicast router sends multicast packet with invalid UDP checksum'. xen: fixes for XSA-362 - backends treating grant mapping errors as bugs. A malicious DomU could trigger a Dom0 kernel panic. xen: removed support for rx-flip mode in xennet(4) and xvif(4) as part of XSA-362 fixes (driver already defaulted to the faster rx-copy mode). zfs: various stability fixes. Fixed 'panic when creating a directory on a NFS served ZFS'. coda: fixed 'coda client opens wrong files instead of cache containers'. hyperv: fixed 'unable to ifconfig(8) up/down with hvn device'. msdosfs: fixed 'BOOTSIG0 and BOOTSIG1 checks prevent mounting Raspberry Pi Pico’s USB mass storage'." A complete list of changes can be found in the project's release notes. Download (pkglist): NetBSD-9.2-amd64.iso (466MB, MD5, torrent), NetBSD-9.2-i386.iso (571MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2020-10-20 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 9.1 |
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NetBSD is a lightweight, highly portable operating system that can run on many CPU hardware architectures. The project's latest release, NetBSD 9.1, introduces a number of performance improvements, bug fixes, and improved stability for ZFS volumes. The default graphical user interface has been changed too: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.1, the first update of the NetBSD 9 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Here are some highlights of this new release. Parallelized disk encryption with cgd(4). Added the C.UTF-8 locale. Added support for Xen 4.13. Various reliability fixes and improvements for ZFS. Added support for ZFS on dk(4) wedges on ld(4). NVMM hypervisor updated, bringing improved emulation, performance, and stability. Additional settings for the NPF firewall, updated documentation, and various npfctl(8) usability improvements. X11 improvements, default window manager switched to ctwm(1), enabled sixel support in xterm(1), fixes for older Intel chipsets." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): NetBSD-9.1-amd64.iso (465MB, SHA256, torrent), NetBSD-9.1-i386.iso (570MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2020-04-02 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 8.2 |
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The NetBSD team have announced a new release of the project's highly portable operating system. The new version, NetBSD 8.2, provides minor updates and fixes to the project's 8.x series. "The third release in the NetBSD-8 is now available. This release includes all the security fixes in NetBSD-8 up until this point, and other fixes deemed important for stability. Some highlights include: x86: fixed regression in booting old CPUs. x86: Hyper-V Gen.2 VM framebuffer support. httpd(8): fixed various security issues. ixg(4): various fixes / improvements. x86 efiboot: add tftp support, fix issues on machines with many memory segments, improve graphics mode logic to work on more machines. Various kernel memory info leaks fixes. Update expat to 2.2.8. Fix ryzen USB issues and support xHCI version 3.10. Accept root device specification as NAME=label...." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. A more detailed list of changes can be found in the NetBSD changes file. Download links can be found on the project's home page. Download (pkglist): NetBSD-8.2-amd64.iso (722MB, MD5, torrent), NetBSD-8.2-i386.iso (682MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2020-02-15 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 9.0 |
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The developers of NetBSD, a highly portable operating system that runs across over two dozen CPU architectures, have published a new release. The new version, NetBSD 9.0, improves support for 64-bit ARM processors, introduces kernel ASLR, and improves ZFS support. "Sixth months after the start of the release engineering process, NetBSD 9.0 is now available. Since the start of the release process a lot of improvements went into the branch - over 700 pullups were processed! 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. We hope this will lead to the best NetBSD release ever (only to be topped by NetBSD 10 - hopefully later this year). Here are a few highlights of the new release: Support for Arm AArch64 (64-bit Armv8-A) machines, including "Arm ServerReady" compliant machines (SBBR+SBSA). Enhanced hardware support for Armv7-A. Updated GPU drivers (e.g. support for Intel Kabylake). Enhanced virtualization support." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): NetBSD-9.0-amd64.iso (466MB, MD5, torrent), NetBSD-9.0-i386.iso (570MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2020-02-03 |
Development Release: NetBSD 9.0 RC2 |
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Martin Husemann has announced the availability of the second (and possibly final) release candidate for NetBSD 9.0: "Sixth months after the start of the release engineering process for 9.0, the second (and most likely final) release candidate is now available. Shortly after the first release candidate had been published and feedback came in, 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). 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. Since the start of the release process a lot of improvements went into the branch - nearly 700 pullups were processed. 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." Please see the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download (SHA512): NetBSD-9.0_RC2-amd64.iso (466MB, torrent), NetBSD-9.0_RC2-i386.iso (570MB, torrent). |
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| 2019-12-02 |
Development Release: NetBSD 9.0 RC1 |
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Martin Husemann has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 9.0. The new development snapshot features kernel address space layout randomization (ASLR), updated ZFS support and support for AArch64 processors. "Here are a few highlights of the new release: Support for Arm AArch64 (64-bit Armv8-A) machines, including "Arm ServerReady" compliant machines (SBBR+SBSA). Enhanced hardware support for Armv7-A. Updated GPU drivers (e.g. support for Intel Kabylake). Enhanced virtualization support. Support for hardware-accelerated virtualization (NVMM). Support for Performance Monitoring Counters. Support for Kernel ASLR. Support several kernel sanitizers (KLEAK, KASAN, KUBSAN). Support for userland sanitizers. Audit of the network stack. Many improvements in NPF. Updated ZFS. Reworked error handling and NCQ support in the SATA subsystem. Support a common framework for USB Ethernet drivers (usbnet)." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): NetBSD-9.0_RC1-amd64.iso (465MB, torrent), NetBSD-9.0_RC1-i386.iso (569MB, torrent). |
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| 2019-05-20 |
Development Release: NetBSD 8.1 RC1 |
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Martin Husemann has announced the availability of a new release candidate for NetBSD 8.1. The new release candidate ships with CPU vulnerability workarounds, a new wireless driver and several performance improvements. Husemann writes: "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. 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. 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 8.1 RC1 announcement." Additional details can be found in the CHANGES-8.1 file. Download (SHA512) links: NetBSD-8.1_RC1-amd64.iso (722MB), NetBSD-8.1_RC1-i386.iso (684MB). |
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| 2018-09-03 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 7.2 |
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The NetBSD project develops a lightweight operating system which runs on a wide range of hardware architectures. The project's latest release in the 7.x series is NetBSD 7.2, which offers USB 3.0 support, enhancements to Linux emulation, support for running on the Raspberry Pi 3 computer and updated drivers. "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. Some highlights of the 7.2 release are: support for USB 3.0; enhancements to the Linux emulation subsystem; fixes in binary compatibility for ancient NetBSD executables; iwm(4) driver for Intel Wireless 726x, 316x, 826x and 416x series added; support for Raspberry Pi 3 added; fix interrupt setup on Hyper-V VMs with Legacy Network Adapter; SVR4 and IBCS2 compatibility subsystems have been disabled by default (besides IBCS2 on VAX), these subsystems also do not auto-load their modules any more; various USB stability enhancements; numerous bug fixes and stability improvements." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (MD5): NetBSD-7.2-amd64.iso (389MB, torrent), NetBSD-7.2-i386.iso (419MB, torrent). |
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| 2018-07-21 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 8.0 |
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The NetBSD team has announced a new version of their project's highly portable operating system. The new version, NetBSD 8.0, included support for USB 3, reproducible builds, in-kernel audio mixing and address layout randomization for improved security. "USB stack rework, USB3 support added. In-kernel audio mixer (audio_system(9)). Reproducible builds (MKREPRO, see mk.conf(5)). Full userland debug information (MKDEBUG, see mk.conf(5)) 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 analysis. 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. PaX ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) enabled by default on: i386, amd64, evbarm, landisk, pmax, sparc64. Position independent executables by default for userland on: i386, amd64, arm, m68k, mips, sh3, sparc64." Further details can be found in the project's release notes. Download (SHA512): NetBSD-8.0-amd64.iso (716MB, torrent), NetBSD-8.0-i386.iso (677MB, torrent). |
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| 2018-07-03 |
Development Release: NetBSD 8.0 RC2 |
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Martin Husemann has announced the availability of the second (and probably final) release candidate for NetBSD 8.0, a highly portable operating system available for dozens of processor architectures. The new release candidate fixes a number of issues that existed in the previous snapshot and includes kernel security fixes for CPU bugs. "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. 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. 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. " More information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA512): NetBSD-8.0_RC2-amd64.iso (716MB), NetBSD-8.0_RC2-i386.iso (677MB). |
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| 2018-04-24 |
Development Release: NetBSD 8.0 RC1 |
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Martin Husemann has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 8.0, a highly portable operating system available for over 50 processor architectures: "On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the first release candidate of NetBSD 8.0. Many changes have been made since 7.0. Here are a few highlights: USB stack rework, USB 3 support added; in-kernel audio mixer; reproducible builds; 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; PaX ASLR enabled by default on i386, amd64, evbarm, landisk, pmax, sparc64; MKPIE (position independent executables) by default for userland on: i386, amd64, arm, m68k, mips, sh3, sparc64; added can(4), a socket layer for CAN busses; added ipsecif(4) for route-based VPNs; made part of the network stack MP-safe NET_MPSAFE kernel option is required to try; WAPBL stability and performance improvements...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download (SHA512) the installation images for the amd64 and i386 architectures from here: NetBSD-8.0_RC1-amd64.iso (563MB), NetBSD-8.0_RC1-i386.iso (573MB). |
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| 2018-03-19 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 7.1.2 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 7.1.2. NetBSD is a lightweight operating system specifically designed to run on a large range of hardware and processor platforms. Version 7.1.2 is a security and bug-fix upgrade: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1.2, the second security and bug-fix 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. Changes between 7.1.1 and 7.1.2: security advisory fixes - NetBSD-SA2018-003 remote DoS in IPsec (IPv6) and NetBSD-SA2018-004 remote memory corruption in IPv6; disable compat_svr4 and compat_svr4_32 by default on all ports; disable compat_ibcs2 everywhere but on Vax; remove svr4, svr4_32, ibcs2, freebsd from the module autoload list; disable LSRR (loose source and record route) and SSRR (strict source and record route) by default; amd64 - make the direct map non-executable...." See the release announcement and release notes for more details. Installation images of NetBSD 7.1.2 are available for over 50 different platforms; here are the links to the amd64 and i386 architectures (SHA512): NetBSD-7.1.2-amd64.iso (376MB, torrent), NetBSD-7.1.2-i386.iso (408MB, torrent). |
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| 2017-12-28 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 7.1.1 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 7.1.1, a security and bug-fix update from the project that develops a lightweight operating system that runs on a wide range of hardware platforms: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1.1, the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 7.1 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. The following security advisories were fixed: buffer overflow via cmap for 4 graphics drivers; x86 - vulnerabilities in context handling; Vnode reference leak in the openat system call. Userland changes: dhcrelay(8) - fix bug that prevented proper operation when run in the background; Heimdal - update to 7.1; mtree(8) - don't modify strings stored in hash, otherwise filling up of directory hierarchy stops if the same hash value occurs in directory and leaf...." Here is the brief release announcement, with a detailed changelog provided in the release notes. Installation images of NetBSD 7.1.1 are available for 54 different platforms; here are the quick links to the amd64 and i386 architectures (SHA512): NetBSD-7.1.1-amd64.iso (376MB, torrent), NetBSD-7.1.1-i386.iso (408MB, torrent). |
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| 2017-03-15 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 7.1 |
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The NetBSD project develops a lightweight operating system which runs on a wide range of hardware architectures. The project's latest release, NetBSD 7.1, features support for running on the minimal Raspberry Pi Zero computer and includes initial KMS support for NVIDIA video cards with the nouveau open source driver. NetBSD's Linux compatibility layer has been updated and can now run the Linux version of Adobe Flash Player. "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. Some highlights of the 7.1 release are: support for Raspberry Pi Zero; initial DRM/KMS support for NVIDIA graphics cards via nouveau (disabled by default, uncomment nouveau and nouveaufb in your kernel config to test); the addition of vioscsi, a driver for the Google Compute Engine disk; Linux compatibility improvements, allowing, the use of Adobe Flash Player 24." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): NetBSD-7.1-amd64.iso (373MB, torrent), NetBSD-7.1-i386.iso (406MB, torrent). |
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| 2016-10-27 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 7.0.2 |
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The NetBSD project has announced a second security update to the highly portable operating system's 7.0.x branch. The new release, NetBSD 7.0.2, mostly fixes bugs and potential crashes in the operating system's core components. "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." In addition, the OpenSSL, ntp and BIND components have updated: "Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1u. Update ntp to 4.2.8p8. Update BIND to 9.10.4-P3. Fix several protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries. libsa getpass: check bounds on input." The project's release announcement, the release notes for NetBSD 7.0.2 and the detailed changes file have further information on the new update. Download (MD5): NetBSD-7.0.2-amd64.iso (372MB, torrent), NetBSD-7.0.2-i386.iso (405MB, torrent). |
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| 2016-05-28 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 7.0.1 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 7.0.1, the first bug-fix and security update of the project's 7.x release branch: "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.0.1, the first security/bug-fix 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 7.0.1." This brief release announcement was published on the NetBSD blog, with a detailed changelog provided in the release notes. Some of the technical changes include: "Add wip.pkgsrc.org to ssh_known_hosts; void 'vnconfig -l' infinite loop with netbsd-6 or older userland; avoid a crash when mounting an ados file system; avoid a panic when unplugging a mounted umass(4) device; don't leak garbage from the kernel stack on sleep(0) and equivalents; fix ARM1136 function selection...." This NetBSD release is available for 54 processor architectures; quick links to download the installation ISO images for the amd64 and i386 platforms: NetBSD-7.0.1-amd64.iso (372MB, MD5, torrent), NetBSD-7.0.1-i386.iso (405MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2015-10-08 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 7.0 |
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The NetBSD project has announced the release of NetBSD 7.0. NetBSD is a highly portable operating system which runs on most CPU architectures. The latest release features several improvements, including better graphics performance, multiprocessor ARM support and NetBSD has been tested on Raspberry Pi 2 and BeagleBoard mini computers. This release also includes the blacklist daemon (blacklistd), a service which protects network services from brute force attacks. "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.0, the fifteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. This release brings stability improvements, hundreds of bug fixes, and many new features. Some highlights of the NetBSD 7.0 release are: DRM/KMS support brings accelerated graphics to x86 systems using modern Intel and Radeon devices. Multiprocessor ARM support. Support for many new ARM boards: Raspberry Pi 2, ODROID-C1, BeagleBoard, BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, MiraBox, Allwinner A20, A31: Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, etc. Freescale i.MX50, i.MX51: Kobo Touch, Netwalker, Xilinx Zynq: Parallella, ZedBoard...." A full list of changes and improvements can be found in the project's release notes. Download: NetBSD-7.0-amd64.iso (371MB, MD5, torrent), NetBSD-7.0-i386.iso (404MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2015-08-18 |
Development Release: NetBSD 7.0-RC3 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of a new NetBSD 7.0 release candidate. The new development release, NetBSD 7.0-RC3, offers users a number of new features, particularly for people who run small hobbyist computers like the Raspberry Pi. "On behalf of the NetBSD release engineering team, it is my distinct pleasure to announce that the third release candidate of NetBSD 7.0 is now available for download. As the old Schoolhouse Rock song tells us, three is a magic number. We're hoping that RC3 will be the magic/last release candidate of 7.0. Some of the changes since 7.0_RC2 are: Add a resize_root boot operation (disabled by default). If resize_root=YES in rc.conf then the system attempts to resize the root file system to fill its partition prior to mounting read-write. Enable SMP on Raspberry Pi 2. evbarm: Rename beagleboard.img to armv7.img. The new image includes the same kernels as beagleboard.img plus support for Raspberry Pi 2, ODROID-C1, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Hummingbird A31, and Banana Pi. evbarm: For armv7.img and rpi.img, enable support for auto-growing the SD card root file system..." More details are available in the project's release announcement. Installation images for NetBSD's many supported architectures can be found on the project's servers. Here are quick links to the amd64 and i386 images (MD5): NetBSD-7.0_RC3-amd64.iso (372MB), NetBSD-7.0_RC3-i386.iso (405MB). |
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| 2015-07-28 |
Development Release: NetBSD 7.0 RC2 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the second release candidate for the upcoming NetBSD 7.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the second release candidate of NetBSD 7.0. Some of the changes since 7.0_RC1 are: OpenSSL updated to 1.0.1p; BIND updated to 9.10.2-P2; IPSEC support is now included by default in Xen kernels; fix several security issues in calendar(1); installboot(8) now supports wedge names; fix a quota panic when using WAPBL (PR 49948); fix a memory leak in the drm2 code; avoid an X crash on i915 DRMKMS; add a postinstall(8) check to ensure that /etc/man.conf reflects the modern mandoc world (PR 50020); add a postinstall(8) check to ensure that /etc/fonts/fonts.conf is up to date; tset(1) - fix handling of the erase character; gdb(1) - fix attaching to a running process again after previously detaching; NPF - handle unregistered interfaces correctly; npfctl(8) - fix a NULL dereference...." Read the release announcement for further details. Installation CD images are available for several dozens of architectures; here are the quick links to download the amd64 and i386 images (MD5): NetBSD-7.0_RC2-amd64.iso (372MB), NetBSD-7.0_RC2-i386.iso (405MB). |
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| 2015-06-21 |
Development Release: NetBSD 7.0 RC1 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 7.0. The new development release, NetBSD 7.0 RC1, introduces several new features that have been developed since NetBSD 6.0 was launched. The release candidate includes GPT support, the ability to run NetBSD on several new ARM boards (including the Raspberry Pi 2 and Cubieboard 2), and improvements to NetBSD's packet filter (NPF). "On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the first release candidate of NetBSD 7.0. Many changes have been made since 6.0. Here are a few highlights: greatly improved support for modern Intel and Radeon graphics hardware through a port of the Linux DRM/KMS code; most X.Org components have been updated; ARM multiprocessor support; support for new ARM boards; GPT support in sysinst; Lua kernel scripting; multiprocessor USB stack; many improvements to NPF, the NetBSD packet filter; GCC 4.8.4 (and optionally, LLVM/Clang 3.6.1)...." More details can be found in the release announcement. Download (MD5): NetBSD-7.0_RC1-amd64.iso (371MB), NetBSD-7.0_RC1-i386.iso (404MB). |
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| 2014-11-21 |
BSD Releases: NetBSD 5.2.3, 5.1.5 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 5.2.3 and 5.1.5, the project's legacy versions in the 5.2 and 5.1 release branches: "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce NetBSD 5.1.5, the fifth security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 5.1 release branch, and NetBSD 5.2.3, the third security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 5.2 release branch. They represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, and if you are running a prior release of either branch, we strongly suggest that you update to one of these releases. For more details, please see the release notes at NetBSD-5.1.5.html and NetBSD-5.2.3.html. 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 here." This is the brief release announcement. Quick download links to the amd64 installation images: NetBSD-5.2.3-amd64.iso (241MB, MD5, torrent), NetBSD-5.1.5-i386.iso (242MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2014-10-07 |
BSD Releases: NetBSD 6.1.5, 6.0.6 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 6.1.5, the latest stable version of NetBSD incorporating fixes to all recent security vulnerabilities: "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1.5, the fifth security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch, and NetBSD 6.0.6, the sixth security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. They represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, and if you are running a prior release of either branch, we strongly suggest that you update to one of these releases." Some of the critical security advisory fixes include: "libXfont multiple vulnerabilities; multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities; bozohttpd basic http authentication bypass; multiple vulnerabilities in the execve system call; multiple vulnerabilities in the compatibility layers; user-controlled memory allocation in the modctl system call...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download (MD5) links to amd64 and i386 installation images: NetBSD-6.1.5-amd64.iso (331MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.1.5-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). |
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| 2014-04-19 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 6.1.4 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 6.1.4, the latest stable version of NetBSD incorporating all the recent security and bug fixes, including a fix to OpenSSL's "heartbleed" vulnerability. Simultaneously, the 6.0 branch was updated to version 6.0.5. From the release announcement: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1.4, the fourth security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch, and NetBSD 6.0.5, the fifth security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. They represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, and if you are running a prior release of either branch, we strongly suggest that you update to one of these releases." Important security fixes include: "posix_spawn unbounded kernel memory allocation; OpenSSL information disclosure." Read the release notes for a full list of changes. Download (MD5) links to amd64 and i386 installation images: NetBSD-6.1.4-amd64.iso (331MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.1.4-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). |
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| 2014-01-28 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 6.1.3 |
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Manuel Bouyer has announced the release of NetBSD 6.1.3, the latest stable version of the project that develops a functional operating system for nearly 50 processor architectures: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1.3, the third security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. Please note that all fixes in the prior security and bug-fix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3 and 6.0.4), as well as those in 6.1.1 and 6.1.3, are also in 6.1.3. Changes between 6.1.3 and 6.1.3: security fixes - use after free in Xserver handling of ImageText requests, embryonic TCP sockets local DoS, router advertisement sysctl local denial of service, memory leak when trying to execute bogus ELF binaries...." Read the detailed release notes for a more complete list of changes and links to relevant documents. Download (MD5) links to amd64 and i386 installation images: NetBSD-6.1.3-amd64.iso (331MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.1.3-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). Updates to the NetBSD 6.0, 5.2 and 5.1 branches were also announced yesterday. |
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| 2013-09-30 |
BSD Releases: NetBSD 6.1.2, 6.0.3 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of NetBSD 6.1.2 and 6.0.3, two new updates to the NetBSD 6.1 and 6.0 release branches: "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1.2, the second security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch, and NetBSD 6.0.3, the third security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. They represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons and if you are running a prior release of NetBSD 6.x, you are recommended to update." Some of the changes in the 6.1.2 release include: "virtio(4) - fixed a panic during shutdown on KVM; uhci(4) - fixed USB device enumeration in some cases, fixed some ops on big-endian machines...." See the brief release announcement and read the more detailed release notes for further information. Installation images for a large number of processor architectures are available from the NetBSD mirrors; quick links to the amd64 and i386 CD images (MD5): NetBSD-6.1.2-amd64.iso (331MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.1.2-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). Updates to the NetBSD 5.2 and 5.1 branches were announced earlier. |
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| 2013-08-22 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 6.1.1 |
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NetBSD 6.1.1 today was announced as the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch: "It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2), as well as those in 6.1, are also in 6.1.1. See the release map graph on the NetBSD website for a visual representation of the relationship between releases. Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.1.1 are available for download at many sites around the world. We encourage users who wish to install via ISO or USB disk images to download via BitTorrent by using the torrent files supplied in the images area." Read the release announcement and the release notes for full information. Download (SHA512): NetBSD-6.1.1-amd64.iso (331MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.1.1-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-18 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 6.1, 6.0.2 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the release of NetBSD 6.1, a new stable version of the highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for a wide range of platforms: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Major changes between 6.0 and 6.1: posix_spawn() - fix processes with attributes; resolve races between vget() and vrele() resulting in vget() returning dead vnodes; prevent crash when unsupported fd's are used with kevent; fix a bug where kmem_alloc() could be called from interrupt context; WAPBL - coalesce writes to the journal to speed up wapbl_flush() on raid5 by a factor of 3 to 4...." Read the rest of the release notes for a detailed list of changes and related links. Download (MD5): NetBSD-6.1-amd64.iso (335MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.1-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). Besides version 6.1, the project also released NetBSD 6.0.2, the second security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. |
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| 2013-05-02 |
Development Release: NetBSD 6.1 RC4 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for NetBSD 6.1. From the release announcement: "The fourth release candidate of NetBSD 6.1 is now available for download. It is expected that this will be the final release candidate, with the official release following very soon. (Please note that while the third release candidate (RC3) was tagged and built, it was never officially released.) NetBSD 6.1 will be the first feature update for the NetBSD 6 branch. There are many new drivers, some new features, and many bug fixes! Fixes since RC2 include: updated the fix for SA-2013-003 (RNG bug may result in weak cryptographic keys); fixes to npfctl(8) parsing and error handling; fix sendto(2) issue with IPv6 UDP datagrams; fixed ACPI issues affecting some AMD systems; change vax MAXPARTITION from 16 to 12, addressing boot issues on some systems...." Quick links to download (MD5) installation CD images for the amd64 and i386 architectures: NetBSD-6.1_RC4-amd64.iso (331MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.1_RC4-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). |
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| 2013-03-18 |
Development Release: NetBSD 6.1 RC2 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the second release candidate for NetBSD 6.1: "The second release candidate of NetBSD 6.1 is now available for download. NetBSD 6.1 will be the first feature update for the NetBSD 6 branch. There are many new drivers, some new features, and many bug fixes. Fixes since RC1 include: various terminfo fixes; fixed a segfault in awk(1); moved boottime50 and its associated sysctl into the compat module; updated tzdata to 2013b, with the latest timezone info; fixed a crash when the security.curtain sysctl is enabled; fixed some IPF locking issues; fix a crash on statically-linked programs for NetBSD/alpha. A complete list of changes can be found here. Please help us test this and any upcoming release candidates as much as possible." Here is the brief blog post announcing the release. Download the installation CD image for your preferred architecture from the NetBSD download server. Quick links for the amd64 and i386 images (MD5): NetBSD-6.1_RC2-amd64.iso (331MB, torrent), 6.1_RC2/NetBSD-6.1_RC2-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). |
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| 2013-02-22 |
Development Release: NetBSD 6.1 RC1 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 6.1: "The first release candidate of NetBSD 6.1 is now available for download. NetBSD 6.1 will be the first feature update for the NetBSD 6 branch. There are many new drivers, some new features, and many bug fixes. Highlights include: bug fixes and feature improvements to NPF, the NetBSD Packet Filter; improvements to several ARM platforms, including Raspberry Pi which now has nearly-complete support; support for dtrace on amd64; MIPS ports switched to gdb 7.3.1, gdb6 removed; additional device support in key drivers including wm(4), uftdi(4), mfi(4), bge(4), aac(4), tlp(4) and others; various port-specific improvements to the amiga, arm, sparc64 and x68k ports." Here is the brief release announcement with a link to a full changelog. Installation CD images for 51 processor architectures are available for download from here; quick link to the amd64 image: NetBSD-6.1_RC1-amd64.iso (331MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-12-26 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 6.0.1 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the release of NetBSD 6.0.1, the first security and bug-fix update of the project's 6.0 branch: "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0.1, the first security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. Please note that all fixes in security and bug-fix updates (i.e., NetBSD 6.0.1, 6.0.2, etc.) are cumulative, so the latest update contains all such fixes from the corresponding minor release (in this case, 6.0). Major changes: posix_spawn() - fix processes with attributes; resolve races between vget() and vrele() resulting in vget() returning dead vnodes...." For more details please read the comprehensive release notes. Download the installation CD images for your preferred architecture from the NetBSD FTP server or one of its mirrors. Quick links to the i386 and amd64 variants (MD5): NetBSD-6.0.1-i386.iso (313MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.0.1-amd64.iso (330MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-12-03 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 5.2 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the release of NetBSD 5.2, an updated version of the project's legacy branch: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 5.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 5.2 is the second feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Users running NetBSD 5.0.3 or earlier are encouraged to upgrade to either NetBSD 5.2 or NetBSD 6.0, depending upon their specific requirements. Please note that all fixes in security/critical updates (i.e. NetBSD 5.0.2, 5.1.2, etc.) are cumulative, so the latest update contains all such fixes since the corresponding minor release. These fixes will also appear in future minor releases (i.e. NetBSD 5.3, etc.), together with other less-critical fixes and feature enhancements." See the brief release announcement and the detailed release notes for more information. For downloads please visit the NetBSD's main FTP server or one of its mirrors. Quick links to the i386 and amd64 installation images (SHA512): i386cd-5.2.iso (242MB, torrent), amd64cd-5.2.iso (241MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-11-15 |
Development Release: NetBSD 5.2 RC1 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 5.2, the project's legacy branch. "The first release candidate of NetBSD 5.2 is now available. NetBSD 5.2 is intended for those who have an application using NetBSD 5.0.x or 5.1.x who don't want the churn of upgrading to NetBSD 6.0, but would like bug fixes and some stable new features. There have been a number of changes since 5.1. Those of you who prefer to build from source can continue to follow the netbsd-5 branch, but the netbsd-5-2-RC1 tag is available as well. Please help us test this and any upcoming release candidates as much as possible. Remember, any feedback is good feedback. We'd love to hear from you, whether you've got a complaint or a compliment." Here is the brief release announcement with information on where to find a complete changelog. The installation ISO images for a large number of processor architectures are ready for download from the NetBSD FTP server; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd-5.2_RC1.iso (242MB, torrent), amd64cd-5.2_RC1.iso (241MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-10-17 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 6.0 |
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NetBSD 6.0, a major new update of the free and highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for a large number of platforms and processor architectures, has been released: "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0, the fourteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. Changes from the previous release include scalability improvements on multi-core systems, many new and updated device drivers, Xen and MIPS port improvements, and brand new features such as a new packet filter. Some NetBSD 6.0 highlights are: support for thread-local storage (TLS), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) functionality, rewritten disk quota subsystem, new subsystems to handle Flash devices and NAND controllers...." Read the full release announcement and release notes for more information. Quick links to download the installation CD images for the i386 and amd64 architectures: NetBSD-6.0-i386.iso (313MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.0-amd64.iso (330MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-09-21 |
Development Release: NetBSD 6.0 RC2 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the second release candidate for NetBSD 6.0: "On behalf of NetBSD's developers, I'm happy to announce the availability of the second release candidate of NetBSD 6.0. Adding a little more polish before the 6.0 release, RC2 fixes these additional issues: the vax port shared library issue is resolved, and vax is once again bootable; ntpd(8) broadcast transmission is fixed; i486 support is fixed in the i386 port; interrupt issues on some PowerPC machines are fixed; X.Org display on a Xen amd64 DOM0 is now working again; a pmap_growkernel() issue which causes some systems to reset very early in the boot process is fixed; CVE-2012-4244 was addressed by updating BIND to 9.9.1-P3...." Here is the full release announcement. Installation CD images for nearly 50 processor architectures can be downloaded from the project's FTP server; quick links to the i386 and amd64 ISOs (MD5): NetBSD-6.0_RC2-i386.iso (313MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.0_RC2-amd64.iso (330MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-08-31 |
Development Release: NetBSD 6.0 RC1 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 6.0: "On behalf of NetBSD developers, I'm happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of NetBSD 6.0. A number of improvements and fixes have been made since NetBSD 6.0_BETA2. Here's a sampling: fixed bugs in iscsid target handling and with large writes to iscsi devices; fixed some amd64 trap-handling issues; lots of fixes and improvements for npf(4); renamed wake(8) to wakeonlan(8); pass 'boothowto' from the bootloader to the kernel on sparc/sparc64; various PUFFS/libperfuse fixes in support of glusterfs on NetBSD; update BIND to 9.9.1-P2...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a full changelog, list of known issues and bug reporting notes. Installation CD images for nearly 50 processor architectures can be downloaded from the project's FTP server; quick links to the i386 and amd64 ISOs (MD5): NetBSD-6.0_RC1-i386.iso (313MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.0_RC1-amd64.iso (330MB, torrent).
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| 2012-05-27 |
Development Release: NetBSD 6.0 Beta 2 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the second beta release of NetBSD 6.0: "On behalf of NetBSD developers, I'm happy to announce the availability of the second (and final) public beta of NetBSD 6.0, for testing. ISO images (for amd64 and i386) and images suitable for installing from USB sticks or other hard drives and torrent files for downloading via BitTorrent are also available, as well as Amazon EC2 machine images and .xva files for use with Citrix XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform. We are very pleased with the state of NetBSD 6.0_BETA2. With your help, we have made improvements since NetBSD 6.0_BETA. A sampling: fixes to hdaudio; fixed detaching ehci(4); added the ability to configure RAIDframe components on raw disks; fixed iwi(4) firmware decoding on bigendian platforms...." See the release announcement for a full list of fixed bugs. Download: NetBSD-6.0_BETA2-i386.iso (316MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.0_BETA2-amd64.iso (332MB, torrent).
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| 2012-03-13 |
Development Release: NetBSD 6.0 Beta |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced that the initial beta builds of NetBSD 6.0 are now available for download and testing: "On behalf of NetBSD developers, I'm happy to announce the availability of a public beta of NetBSD 6.0, for your testing pleasure. This beta is substantially feature-complete; there may be some additional changes to the installer and possibly some additional hardware support if some is found missing and is easily added, but the major changes are done. What we need now is for you, the end users, to test it in your preferred configuration. Here are some highlighted changes since NetBSD 5.0: time_t is now 64 bits; syslog improvements - reliable TCP connections, encryption, syslog protocol API; LKMs removed, superseded by the new module(7) framework...." Read the rest of the release announcement on the official NetBSD blog. Quick links to download installation CD images for i386 and amd64 platforms (see here for other architectures): NetBSD-6.0_BETA-i386.iso (316MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.0_BETA-amd64.iso (331MB, torrent).
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| 2012-02-11 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 5.1.2 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 5.1.2: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 5.1.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 5.1.2 is the second critical/security update of the NetBSD 5.1 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical for security or stability reasons. Please note that all fixes in critical/security updates (i.e., NetBSD 5.0.1, 5.0.2, etc.) are cumulative, so the latest update contains all such fixes since the corresponding minor release. These fixes will also appear in future minor releases (i.e., NetBSD 5.1, 5.2, etc.), together with other less-critical fixes and feature enhancements. NetBSD 5.1.2 is dedicated to the memory of Yoshihiro Masuda, who passed away in May 2011. See the brief release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. Installation CD images for 53 processor architectures are available for download from NetBSD mirrors worldwide; here are the quick links to the i386 and amd64 images: i386cd-5.1.2.iso (238MB, SHA512, torrent), amd64cd-5.1.2.iso (242MB, SHA512, torrent).
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| 2010-11-19 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 5.1 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 5.1: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 5.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 5.1 is the first feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in security/critical updates are cumulative, so the latest update contains all such fixes since the corresponding minor release. Some highlights include: RAIDframe parity maps, which greatly improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown; X.Org updates; support for many more network devices; Xen PAE dom0 support; Xen PCI pass-through support." See the release announcement and release notes for a complete list of changes. Installation CD images for 42 processor architectures are available for download from the project's FTP/HTTP mirrors and also via BitTorrent; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images (SHA512): i386cd-5.1.iso (238MB, torrent), amd64cd-5.1.iso (240MB, torrent).
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| 2010-04-29 |
Development Release: NetBSD 5.1 RC1 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 5.1: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am proud to announce that the first release candidate of NetBSD 5.1 is now available for download. Those of you who prefer to build from source can continue to follow the netbsd-5 branch, but the netbsd-5-1-RC1 tag is available as well. There have been quite a lot of changes since 5.0. See src/doc/CHANGES-5.1 for the full list, or your platform's INSTALL notes for a summary. Please help us test this and any upcoming release candidates as much as possible. Remember, any feedback is good feedback. We'd love to hear from you, whether you've got a complaint or a compliment." See the release announcement and the changelog for further information. Installation CD images for 41 processor architectures are available for download from here; quick links to i386 and amd64 ISOs (SHA512): i386cd-5.1_RC1.iso (237MB), amd64cd-5.1_RC1.iso (240MB).
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| 2010-02-12 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 5.0.2 |
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NetBSD 5.0.2, the second critical/security update of the NetBSD 5.0 branch, was released today: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 5.0.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical for security or stability reasons. Please note that all fixes in critical/security updates (i.e., NetBSD 5.0.1, 5.0.2, etc.) are cumulative, so the latest update contains all such fixes since the corresponding minor release. These fixes will also appear in future minor releases (i.e., NetBSD 5.1, 5.2, etc.), together with other less-critical fixes and feature enhancements." See the detailed release announcement. Installation CD images for 42 processor architectures are available for download from the project's ISO image mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images (SHA512): i386cd-5.0.2.iso (229MB, torrent), amd64cd-5.0.2.iso (242MB, torrent).
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| 2009-08-02 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 5.0.1 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 5.0.1: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 5.0.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 5.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for security or stability reasons. Please note that all fixes in security/critical updates (i.e., NetBSD 5.0.1, 5.0.2, etc.) are cumulative, so the latest update contains all such fixes since the corresponding minor release. These fixes will also appear in future minor releases (i.e., NetBSD 5.1, 5.2, etc.), together with other less-critical fixes and feature enhancements." See the detailed release notes for a complete list of all changes, security fixes and known issues. Installation CD images for 42 processor architectures are available for download from the project's FTP mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images (SHA512): i386cd-5.0.1.iso (229MB, torrent), amd64cd-5.0.1.iso (242MB, torrent).
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| 2009-04-29 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 5.0 |
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The NetBSD project has announced the release of NetBSD 5.0: "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce that NetBSD 5.0, the thirteenth release of the NetBSD operating system, is now available. NetBSD 5.0 features greatly improved performance and scalability on modern multiprocessor (SMP) and multi-core systems. In addition to scalability and performance improvements, a significant number of major features have been added. Some highlights are: a preview of metadata journaling for FFS file systems (known as WAPBL), the jemalloc memory allocator, X.Org instead of XFree86 on a number of ports, the Power Management Framework, ACPI suspend/resume support on many laptops, write support for UDF file systems...." See the release announcement and release notes for a full list of changes and new features. Installation CD images for 42 processor architectures are available from NetBSD's main FTP server and its mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd-5.0.iso (229MB, MD5, torrent), amd64cd-5.0.iso (242MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2009-04-17 |
Development Release: NetBSD 5.0 RC4 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for NetBSD 5.0, a BSD operating system designed to run on a large number of processor architectures: "Today, we have two things to be happy about. First, the fourth release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is available for download. Second, this announcement, like RC3's, coincides with an important birthday: that of Billy West. Below are some highlighted changes since RC3: added the RLIMIT_AS resource, which limits the total address space available to processes; improved NFS server stability; FFS improvements; a fix for a pf(4) DoS; re(4) now works with the RealTek 8111C, which is found on many current motherboards with Intel chipsets. As usual, src/doc/CHANGES-5.0 has the full details." Here is the brief release announcement. As usual, CD images for 41 processor architectures are available from NetBSD's FTP server and its mirrors. Two quick links to the i386 and amd64 installation CD images: i386cd.iso (229MB), amd64cd.iso (241MB).
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| 2009-03-22 |
Development Release: NetBSD 5.0 RC3 |
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Celebrating NetBSD's 16th birthday, Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the third release candidate for NetBSD 5.0: "Today, on the 16th birthday of NetBSD, I have the pleasure of announcing the availability of NetBSD 5.0 RC3. Below are some highlighted changes since RC2: considerable improvements to WAPBL; further X.Org refinements, including switching sgimips to X.Org; scheduler activations support is now disabled by default in sysctl.conf; ddb.onpanic is now set to 1 in the kernel by default, but 0 in sysctl.conf - this avoids trying to dump if a crash occurs during the install phase; puffs is now enabled by default on amd64, i386, macppc, and sparc64; SSP kernels should work again; a handful of assorted stability improvements. As always, see src/doc/CHANGES-5.0 for full details." Here is the brief release announcement. Installation CD images for 40 processor architectures are available for download from these mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd.iso (229MB), amd64cd.iso (242MB).
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| 2009-02-11 |
Development Release: NetBSD 5.0 RC2 |
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Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the second release candidate for NetBSD 5.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am proud to announce that the second release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for download. Since RC1, 103 tickets were pulled up. Interested readers can find the details of these tickets in src/doc/CHANGES-5.0. RC2 represents a great deal of progress over RC1, but with that amount of change, increased time for testing is required. To put it bluntly, there will definitely be a third release candidate. We are aware of a number of release-blocking issues, but it is important that we get a jump on testing the many changes made since RC1." Here is the brief release announcement. As always, installation CD images for 40 processor architectures are available for download from these mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd.iso (238MB), amd64cd.iso (252MB).
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| 2008-10-15 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 4.0.1 |
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Manuel Bouyer has announced the release of NetBSD 4.0.1, the first update of the stable NetBSD 4.0 branch: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that update 4.0.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 4.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 4.0 release branch. This represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons, no new features have been added. NetBSD 4.0.1 runs on 54 different system architectures featuring 17 machine architectures across 17 distinct CPU families, and is being ported to more. The NetBSD 4.0.1 release contains complete binary releases for 51 different machine types." Read the detailed release announcement for further information. Download the installation CD images from one of the NetBSD mirrors or via BitTorrent. Quick links to the i386 and amd64 ISO images: i386cd-4.0.1.iso (242MB, MD5, torrent), amd64cd-4.0.1.iso (166MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2007-12-19 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 4.0 |
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Geert Hendrickx announced the availability of the official release of NetBSD 4.0: "Major achievements in NetBSD 4.0 include support for version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor, Bluetooth, many new device drivers and embedded platforms based on ARM, PowerPC and MIPS CPUs. New network services include iSCSI target (server) code and an implementation of the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. Also, system security was further enhanced with restrictions of mprotect(2) to enforce WX policies, the Kernel Authorization framework, and improvements of the Veriexec file integrity subsystem, which can be used to harden the system against Trojan horses and virus attacks." See the release announcement and the complete list of changes for more information. ISO images for a variety of architectures are available from the NetBSD mirrors; quick links to the i386 and x86_64 CD images: i386cd-4.0.iso (242MB, MD5), amd64cd-4.0.iso (166MB, MD5). Torrent files are available here.
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| 2007-12-08 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC5 |
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Manuel Bouyer has announced the availability of the fifth release candidate for NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 5. This release candidate has several bug fixes and other changes since the previous release candidate - RC4. Most important bug fixes are: a bug that could prevent hpcmips from booting has been fixed; aac(4) is now fully supported on amd64; a bug in the st(4) driver that could cause a kernel panic or data corruption on tape error has been fixed; a bug that would cause kernel panic with lfs has been fixed; com*/lpt* at acpi has been removed from GENERIC kernels, so that the on-board com(4) and lpt(4) ports will be at their traditional locations." See the release announcement and changelog for a more detailed list of changes. As usual, ISO images for a variety of architectures are available from these NetBSD mirrors; quick links to the i386 and x86_64 CD images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (166MB).
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| 2007-11-10 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC4 |
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Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 4. This release candidate has several bug fixes and other changes since the previous release candidate - RC3. Most important bug fixes are: a transition mechanism from Sendmail to Postfix was implemented; a security issue in OpenSSL was fixed; an earlier pullup to ipf has been reverted, because it prevented RDR sessions from expiring; a bug in MTRR handling causing a reboot on amd64 when starting the X server has been fixed; a security issue in FAST_IPSEC has been fixed; bio(4) has been updated to handle RAID volumes larger than 4GB; fix a heap corruption in rpc.lockd...." More details about the changes can be found in the release announcement. Download: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (166MB).
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| 2007-10-19 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC3 |
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Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the third release candidate for NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 3. This release candidate has several bug fixes and other changes since the previous release candidate - RC2. The most important ones are: build of the 32-bit sparc64 kernel is fixed, allowing the sparc release to be built; many fixes to nfe(4) and bge(4) drivers; fixed PR 37037 - kernel memory corruption due to ipnat; support for the HP ML110 G2 / Adaptec 2610SA SATA RAID added to aac(4); fix of an off-by-one error in OpenSSL; avoid kernel crashes in signal handling (PR 37004) and Linux emulation (PR 36920); fix ACPI related interrupt storms due to differences between IOAPIC and classic interrupt routing." Here is the complete release announcement. Installation CD images for a large number of architectures are available from the NetBSD mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (165MB).
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| 2007-10-04 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC2 |
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Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the second release candidate of NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 2. There have been many fixes since the previous release candidate, RC1. The most important ones are: ICH9 support in wm(4); enhanced Speedstep support for VIA C7/Eden and amd64; many bug fixes for IPF; FAST_IPSEC fixes; wpi(4) bug fix; proplib local DoS fix; fix procfs exposing the real path of an executable inside chroot; msdosfs bug fix; fix of crash dumps on sparc64; ACPI SCI (system control interrupt) bug fix, addresses interrupt storms seen on some machines. Please note that in this release candidate, the sparc platform has been accidentally omitted. This will be corrected in the next RC cycle. We plan to release another release candidate next week." Read the release announcement for further details. Installation CD images for a variety of processor platforms are available for download from these mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (165MB).
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| 2007-09-04 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC1 |
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Liam Foy has announced the availability of the first release candidate of NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the first release candidate for NetBSD 4.0 has been released. The NetBSD 4.0 release provides numerous significant functional enhancements, including support for many new devices, integration of hundreds of bug fixes, new and updated kernel subsystems, and many user-land enhancements. The result of these improvements is a stable operating system fit for production use that rivals most commercially available systems." For more information and further links please read the release announcement and visit the list of changes and features. Installation CD images for 36 processor architectures are available for download from this directory; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (165MB).
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| 2006-11-09 |
BSD Release: NetBSD Live! 2007 |
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The NetBSD project has released a complete live CD with automatic hardware detection and an option to boot into a graphical desktop with KDE. Called NetBSD Live! 2007, the CD image is available for the i386 processor architectures: "This CD-ROM contains a specially constructed version of NetBSD 4.0_BETA sporting a modified kernel based on NetBSD-CURRENT. Booting is done using an adapted version of the GRUB boot loader. The CD contains the following software packages in addition to the base operating system files: XFree86, KDE 3.5.4 with multiple language sets; joe and kvim text editors; AbiWord word processor, Dia 0.9.4 flow-charting and diagramming application, Inkscape 0.44 vector graphic application; The GNU Image Processor (GIMP) 2.2; Firefox web browser...." Read the complete release notes for further information. Download: netbsd-live-2007.iso (701MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-11-04 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 3.1 |
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NetBSD 3.1 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 3.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available in both source and binary form. NetBSD is a general-purpose Open Source operating system that provides interfaces for running a wide range of applications on a big number of different hardware platforms, all from one source tree. NetBSD 3.1 contains many bug fixes, security updates, new drivers and new features like support for Xen3 DomU." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of changes and new features. Download (MD5): i386cd-3.1.iso (208MB), amd64cd-3.1.iso (151MB). The CD images for a large number of processor architectures are also available for download via BitTorrent. On a related note, NetBSD 3.0.2, an updated version of the NetBSD 3.0 branch, is also out.
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| 2006-10-12 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC4 |
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Geert Hendrickx has announced that the fourth release candidate of NetBSD 3.1 is ready for testing: "We had become aware of a few OpenSSL vulnerabilities which we didn't want to leave unfixed in the NetBSD 3.1 release, hence we've extended the release cycle with a fourth release candidate. Binaries and ISOs for NetBSD 3.1_RC4 are available on the releng FTP mirrors. Apart from the OpenSSL fixes, we took advantage of this extra release candidate to add some more improvements: MS DOS file system: write performance of large files has been improved; toolchain: NetBSD 3.1_RC4 can be cross-built from NetBSD 4.0_BETA and -current (GCC 4.x); daily security report for /etc/exports has been improved; dhclient(8) exits gracefully if another instance is already running...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and download links. Download (i386): i386cd-3.1_RC4.iso (208MB, MD5).
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| 2006-09-18 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC3 |
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The third release candidate of NetBSD 3.1 is ready for testing: "It is my pleasure to announce that the third release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. Improvements since the second release candidate include: fixed recent security issues with BIND, OpenSSL and X11 font handling; added 'xm shutdown' support for Xen3 domUs; honor the user's umask when creating UNIX domain sockets; fixed some Xen timing and clock issues; fixed serial console on the second serial port of sparc64 machines; fixed DHCP in sysinst on 64-bit archs. We anticipate this to be the final release candidate for the NetBSD 3.1 release, so, if no serious problems arise, we expect NetBSD 3.1 to be released on October 2." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download the i386 ISO image from here: i386cd-3.1_RC3.iso (208MB, MD5).
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| 2006-09-05 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC2 |
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Geert Hendrickx has announced the availability of a second release candidate of NetBSD 3.1: "on behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the second release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. Improvements over the first release candidate include: fixed the build of NetBSD-vax; fixed a buffer overflow in PPPoE/ISDN PPP; closed a socket leach in accept(2); removed references to sushi(8) from the afterboot(8) manpage; fixed an integer overflow in FreeType; disabled threading in named(8) to avoid a crash on sparc and sparc64; fixed a potential DoS vulnerability in sendmail(8)...." More details about the changes can be found in the release announcement. CD images for a number of processor architectures are available from the project's main FTP server and its mirrors; here is a quick link to the i386 image: i386cd-3.1_RC2.iso (208MB, MD5).
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| 2006-08-22 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC1 |
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Geert Hendrickx has announced the first release candidate of NetBSD 3.1: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the first release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. NetBSD 3.1 is a feature update for NetBSD 3.0, and features domU support for Xen3, massive LFS stability improvements, and lots of other, smaller improvements, additions, and bug fixes. If you want to build NetBSD 3.1_RC1 from source, cvs up your source tree to 'netbsd-3-1-RC1', or just along the 'netbsd-3' branch. NetBSD 3.1_RC2 is expected to be released in two weeks, and will have fixed the build for NetBSD-vax." More details can be found in the release announcement. Download the i386 ISO image from here: i386cd-3.1_RC1.iso (208MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-07-25 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 3.0.1 |
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After being available for free download for one week, NetBSD 3.0.1 is now officially announced: "NetBSD 3.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 3.0 release branch. This represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons, no new features have been added. NetBSD 3.0.1 runs on 57 different system architectures featuring 17 machine architectures across 17 distinct CPU families, and is being ported to more. The NetBSD 3.0.1 release contains complete binary releases for 53 different machine types, with the platforms amigappc, bebox, pc532 and playstation2 released in source form only. Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 3.0.1 are available for download at many sites around the world." More details can be found in the release announcement. CD images for all the supported architectures are available from a number of mirrors worldwide, as well as via BitTorrent; here is a quick link to the i386 CD image: i386cd-3.0.1.iso (200MB, MD5).
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| 2005-12-23 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 3.0 |
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NetBSD 3.0 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 3.0 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports 57 different system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. NetBSD 3.0 continues our long tradition with major improvements in stability, performance, networking, security, also includes support for two new platforms (iyonix and hp700), and many new peripherals." More details can be found in the release announcement. CD images for all the supported architectures are available from a number of mirrors worldwide, as well as via BitTorrent; here is a quick link to the i386 CD image: i386cd-3.0.iso (200MB, BSDSUM).
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| 2005-12-13 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.0 RC6 |
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The sixth (and possibly the final) release candidate of NetBSD 3.0 is available: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I'm happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 3.0 RC6 for testing. NetBSD 3.0 RC6 (including ISO images) is available in the 'daily builds' section of your local FTP mirror and we encourage you to test it out and report any bugs. We expect that this will be the final release candidate for NetBSD 3.0, barring any major issues or security problems. Here is a brief summary of changes from NetBSD 3.0_RC5 to 3.0_RC6: fix problems with USB keyboards on newer amd64 and i386 systems; added support for Intel ICH7 and 6300ESB to auich(4)...." Find more details in the release announcement. The binary files and installation ISO images are available from NetBSD mirrors; here is a quick link to the i386 installation ISO: i386cd-3.0_RC6.iso (200MB, BSDSUM).
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| 2005-12-04 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.0 RC5 |
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The fifth release candidate of NetBSD 3.0 is out, inclusive of installation ISO images: "NetBSD 3.0 RC5 available. In a message to the netbsd-announce list, Matthias Scheler announced the availability of NetBSD 3.0 RC5 on the FTP server of the NetBSD project. This latest release candidate solves some security issues and fixes a few driver problems. For downloads of NetBSD 3.0 RC5, please consider one of the mirrors of the release engineering FTP server. In addition to the usual set of archive files there were also ISO images created for NetBSD 3.0 RC5." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement. Here is a quick link to the ISO image for i386 processors: i386cd.iso (200MB, MD5).
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| 2005-11-19 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.0 RC1 |
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The first release candidate of NetBSD 3.0 is out: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I'm happy to announce that the release process for NetBSD 3.0 has officially begun. The first release candidate is available for download here. We expect to have RC2 available on the FTP server in about a week, and we hope this will be the final release candidate. So if all goes well the release of 3.0 is approximately three weeks away. We appreciate your patience and support which we hope will make this the best NetBSD release to date!" See the release announcement and installation instructions (i386) for further details. A list of NetBSD mirrors can be found here.
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| 2005-11-02 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 2.1 |
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NetBSD 2.1 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 2.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 2.1 is the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch. This release provides numerous functional enhancements, including support for many new devices, hundreds of bug fixes, patches and updates to kernel subsystems, and many enhancements to the user environment. In addition, all of the security fixes and critical bug fixes from the NetBSD 2.0.3 update are included as well." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of changes. NetBSD 2.1 is available for 54 processor architectures; here is a quick link to the ISO image for i386: i386cd.iso (178MB, MD5, BSDSUM).
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| 2005-09-26 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.1 RC5 |
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A new release candidate of NetBSD 2.1 is now available for testing: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I'm happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 2.1 RC5 for testing. (A security issue came up shortly after RC4 was tagged, so it was never announced). NetBSD 2.1 RC5 is available in the 'daily builds' section of your local FTP mirror, and we encourage you to test it out and report any bugs using send-pr(1). We anticipate that this will be the final release candidate for NetBSD 2.1, barring any major issues or security problems." Read the rest of the release announcement and installation instructions (i386) for more information. The list of FTP mirrors carrying the RC5 binary packages can be found on this page.
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| 2005-09-11 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.1 RC3 |
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The third release candidate of NetBSD 2.1 has been announced and is ready for testing: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I'm happy to announce that the release process for NetBSD 2.1 has begun. Those of you paying close attention will notice that NetBSD 2.1 RC3 is available in the 'daily builds' section of your local FTP mirror, and we encourage you to test it out and report any major bugs using send-pr(1). We expect to have RC4 available on FTP mirrors in about a week, and we expect this to be the final release candidate." See the release announcement and the installation notes (i386) for further details. A comprehensive list of FTP mirror sites carrying the release can be found on this page.
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| 2005-04-15 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 2.0.2 |
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The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that update 2.0.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available: "NetBSD 2.0.2 is the second security/critical update of the NetBSD 2.0 release branch. This represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons. This is also the first binary security/critical update since NetBSD 2.0. NetBSD 2.0.1 was tagged within the CVS repository, and is available from there as a source update, but its full binary release was preempted by patches incorporated into 2.0.2 and build hardware issues." Read the full announcement and check the complete list of changes. Download (i386): i386cd.iso (171MB), also available via BitTorrent. Our regular readers may have already known about the availability of NetBSD 2.0.2 mentioned in the Reader Comment Area of DistroWatch Weekly.
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| 2005-02-25 |
NetBSD 2.0 Rendezvous |
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ONLamp has published an interview with the developers of NetBSD: "We are planning to have more frequent releases. We have made a lot of mistakes in the past that have delayed the release schedules, but hopefully we have learned from them. We were very aggressive about committing large sub-system upgrades just before a release, and that added a lot of bugs to the code that needed to be fixed for the release. This not only delays the releases, but also adds extra work, since each bug needs to be tested on head and pulled up via patches by the release engineering group." The 2-page interview starts here.
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| 2005-01-05 |
Understanding NetBSD 2.0's New Technology |
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NewsForge has published an interview with several prominent NetBSD developers: "NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports 52 system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. NetBSD 2.0 continues the long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, significant security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals. To celebrate the release, we've asked several well-known NetBSD developers to comment on some of NetBSD 2.0's new features." The questions and answers are highly technical, but they give an interesting overview of recent changes in this multi-platform operating system. Read the interview here.
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| 2004-12-09 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 2.0 |
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The long awaited NetBSD 2.0 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 2.0 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 2.0, the tenth major release of the NetBSD Operating System, has been released, with binary distributions for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.0 release announcement. NetBSD 2.0 continues our long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, major security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals. The addition of a native threads implementation for all platforms and symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) on i386 and other popular platforms were long-standing goals for NetBSD 2.0. Both of these goals have now been met -- SMP support has been added for i386, SPARC, and PowerPC, and the SMP support on Alpha and VAX has been improved." Download (i386): i386cd.iso (171MB), also available via BitTorrent. A large number of screenshots can be viewed here.
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| 2004-10-10 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.0 RC4 |
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The fourth release candidate of NetBSD 2.0 is now available: "A new release candidate RC4 of NetBSD 2.0 has been tagged. The changes since RC3 include fixes for IP Filter (concerning IPv6 and better backwards compatibility with existing configurations), checksum processing for bridge interfaces, support for the Adaptec AAR 2810SA raid controller, linux compatibility and changes to the pagedaemon in order to improve performance under heavy disk load. To allow for testing of this new release candidate, the final release of NetBSD 2.0 is expected to be pushed back about 1-2 weeks. Binary snapshots will soon be available on the mirrors of the NetBSD release engineering FTP server." This is the announcement. Unofficial ISO images for i386, mac68k, macppc and sparc can be downloaded from here.
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| 2004-10-04 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.0 RC2 |
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The development branch of NetBSD 2.0 has been tagged as "RC2": "NetBSD 2.0 RC2 tagged. After tagging NetBSD-2.0_RC1, there have been a few pullups that fix some issues with Linux emulation under NetBSD/i386 as well as some installation problems under some of the arm-based ports. This means that the final release of NetBSD 2.0 will need to be pushed back approximately 1-2 weeks to allow for testing of this Release Candidate. As usual, binary snapshots will soon be available on the release engineering FTP server." Read here for more information.
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| 2004-09-28 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.0 RC1 |
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Moving closer towards the release of version 2.0, the NetBSD project has announced the first release candidate of NetBSD 2.0: "The NetBSD Releng Team has announced that the first Release Candidate for NetBSD 2.0 (ie NetBSD-2.0_RC1) has been tagged. This is a major milestone in the much anticipated release of NetBSD 2.0: from now on, any pullups must address some form of show-stopping issue to even be considered. The NetBSD Project encourages all users to test the binary snapshots that will soon be available on the release engineering ftp server. If no pullups are necessary, then the 2.0 release should occur around the middle of October." The full release announcement. There are no ISO images for download (except for these unofficial ones), but the product can be installed directly from the NetBSD Release Engineering Server or mirrors by following these instructions.
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