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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.

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April 2018

March 2018

February 2018

January 2018

April 2018

09 Apr 2018 - Two New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2018-00[56] (top)

Two new security advisory were published:

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: 

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revision 1.1
date: 1993-03-21 10:45:37 +0100;  author: cgd;  state: Exp;
branches:  1.1.1;
Initial revision
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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:

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:

You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.