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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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See also

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April 2012

March 2012

February 2012

January 2012

April 2012

07 Apr 2012 - pkgsrc-2012Q1 has been branched (top)

pkgsrc-2012Q1 has been released.

01 Apr 2012 - New Developers (top)

The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developers:

  • Julian Fagir (login: jdf), who will be working on bug fixing.
  • Joseph Koshy (login: jkoshy), who will be working on toolchain and debugging.

March 2012

13 Mar 2012 - NetBSD 6.0_BETA binaries available (top)

On behalf of the NetBSD developers, Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of a public beta of NetBSD 6.0. The binaries can be found at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_BETA/; ISO images are available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_BETA/iso.

Please see our blog entry for more details.

February 2012

11 Feb 2012 - NetBSD 5.1.2 released (top)

The NetBSD release engineering team has announced that the NetBSD 5.1.2 release is now available for download. 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. All users are encouraged to upgrade. See the NetBSD 5.1.2 Release Announcement for more information.

04 Feb 2012 - Hackathon 16 (top)

The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February 12th. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.

Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net). Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs to be done. See the Hackathon wiki page for more details.

January 2012

01 Jan 2012 - New Developer in December 2011 (top)

The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:

  • Adrian Steinmann (login: ast), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, kernel and tracking FreeBSD development.