NetBSD: Recent Changes and News
On this page you will find a summary of significant changes to NetBSD. For those interested in every change to the source tree, there is no substitute for subscribing to the source-changes mailing list. Significant news related to the NetBSD Project is also included here. Changes to pkgsrc are also listed here. All of this information is also available in rss/xml format.
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 7.0 to 8.0 (Updated nightly)
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 6.0 to 7.0 (Updated nightly)
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 5.0 to 6.0 (Updated nightly)
- Recent packages changes (Updated nightly)
- Security patches
- Changes and News in 2017
- Changes and News in 2016
- Changes and News in 2015
- Changes and News in 2014
- Changes and News in 2013
- Changes and News in 2012
- Changes and News in 2011
- Changes and News in 2010
- Changes and News in 2009
- Changes and News in 2008
- Changes and News in 2007
- Changes and News in 2006
- Changes and News in 2005
- Changes and News in 2004
- Changes and News in 2003
- Changes and News in 2002
- Changes and News in 2001
- Changes and News in 2000
- Changes and News in 1999
- Changes and News in 1998
April 2018
- 09 Apr 2018 - Two New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2018-00[56]
- 05 Apr 2018 - pkgsrc-2018Q1 released
- 01 Apr 2018 - New Developer in March 2018
March 2018
- 21 Mar 2018 - NetBSD is 25 years old today
- 15 Mar 2018 - NetBSD 7.1.2 released
- 01 Mar 2018 - New Developers in February 2018
February 2018
- 12 Feb 2018 - Two New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2018-00[34]
- 01 Feb 2018 - New Developers in January 2018
January 2018
April 2018
09 Apr 2018 - Two New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2018-00[56] (top)
Two new security advisory were published:
- NetBSD-SA2018-006 Several vulnerabilities in the network stack
- NetBSD-SA2018-005 Privilege separation bug in Xen-amd64
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
05 Apr 2018 - pkgsrc-2018Q1 released (top)
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2018Q1 branch, the 58th pkgsrc release.
Please see the release announcement for more information.
01 Apr 2018 - New Developer in March 2018 (top)
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:
- Eitan Adler (login: eadler), who will be working on standards, cross-bsd projects and new user experience.
March 2018
21 Mar 2018 - NetBSD is 25 years old today (top)
A "cvs log"
on many files in the NetBSD source tree shows:
---------------------------- revision 1.1 date: 1993-03-21 10:45:37 +0100; author: cgd; state: Exp; branches: 1.1.1; Initial revision ----------------------------
and, hard to believe, this is 25 years ago already!
We are still using cvs (but likely will not do that any more on our next birthday), but lots of other things have changed. The number of architectures has exploded, and so has the amount of third party software buildable on NetBSD.
We are still a small project compared to other operating systems, but like to think of our crowd as the most friendly, welcoming and helpful one.
There is still a lot to do, and room for improvements -- keep up the good work and happy birthday, NetBSD!
15 Mar 2018 - NetBSD 7.1.2 released (top)
NetBSD 7.1.2 is now available! Please see the release notes for details.
01 Mar 2018 - New Developers in February 2018 (top)
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developers:
- Tom Ivar Helbekkmo (login: tih), who will be working on various general tasks and bug fixing.
- Tomohiro Kusumi (login: tkusumi), who will be working on file systems and ZFS.
February 2018
12 Feb 2018 - Two New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2018-00[34] (top)
Two new security advisory were published:
- NetBSD-SA2018-004 Remote Memory Corruption in IPv6
- NetBSD-SA2018-003 Remote DoS in IPsec (IPv6)
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
01 Feb 2018 - New Developers in January 2018 (top)
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developers:
- Mateusz Poszwa (login: f8l), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection and atheros.
- Shoichi Yamaguchi (login: yamaguchi), who will be working on kernel, device drivers and networking.
January 2018
02 Jan 2018 - Two New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2018-00[12] (top)
Two new security advisory were published:
- NetBSD-SA2018-002 Local DoS in virecover
- NetBSD-SA2018-001 Vulnerabilities in context handling
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.