NetBSD: Changes and News in 2012
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 6.0 to 7.0 (Updated nightly)
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 5.0 to 6.0 (Updated nightly)
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 4.0 to 5.0 (Updated nightly)
- Changes to pkgsrc
- Security patches
The NetBSD Project's BlogDecember 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
- 25 Jul 2012 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2012-004 BIND resolver DoS when using DNSSEC Validation
- 01 July 2012 - pkgsrc-2012Q2 has been released
June 2012
- 14 Jun 2012 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2012-003 Intel processors sysret to non-canonical address behaviour
- 06 Jun 2012 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2012-001 OpenSSL buffer overflow in DER and -002 TLS/DTLS record attack
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2012
26 December 2012 - NetBSD 6.0.1 Released
NetBSD 6.0.1 is now available! Please see the release notes, or just dive in and grab the binaries from your closest NetBSD mirror.
3 December 2012 - NetBSD 5.2 Released
NetBSD 5.2 is now available. Please see the release notes or the blog entry for more information.
November 2012
14 November 2012 - NetBSD 5.2_RC1 binaries available
On behalf of the NetBSD developers, Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of a public rc 1 of NetBSD 5.2. The binaries can be found at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.2_RC1/; ISO images are available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.2_RC1/iso/.
Please see our blog entry for more details.
October 2012
17 October 2012 - NetBSD 6.0 released!
NetBSD 6.0 is now available! Please see the release notes, or just dive in and grab the binaries from your closest NetBSD mirror. We hope you're as excited as we are.
1 October 2012 - pkgsrc-2012Q3 released
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the pkgsrc-2012Q3 branch. There are many new packages, and some bug fixes. More work has gone into making packages build with Clang (as well as different versions of GCC), and pkgsrc actively maintains packages, removing unused or abandoned packages, while still adding new ones.
www.pkgsrc.org was converted to a wiki. We hope the contents will be a bit less static now, and keep you better informed about changes in pkgsrc.
September 2012
22 Sept 2012 - NetBSD 6.0_RC2 binaries available
On behalf of the NetBSD developers, Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of a public rc 2 of NetBSD 6.0. The binaries can be found at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_RC2/; ISO images are available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_RC2/iso/.
Please see our blog entry for more details.
August 2012
31 Aug 2012 - NetBSD 6.0_RC1 binaries available
On behalf of the NetBSD developers, Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of a public rc 1 of NetBSD 6.0. The binaries can be found at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_RC1/; ISO images are available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_RC1/iso/.
Please see our blog entry for more details.
July 2012
25 Jul 2012 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2012-004 BIND resolver DoS when using DNSSEC Validation
One new security advisory was published:
- NetBSD-SA2012-004 BIND resolver DoS when using DNSSEC Validation
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
01 July 2012 - pkgsrc-2012Q2 has been released
The new quarterly branch for pkgsrc, pkgsrc-2012Q2, was released. See the release announcement for more information.
June 2012
14 Jun 2012 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2012-003 Intel processors sysret to non-canonical address behaviour
One new security advisory was published:
- NetBSD-SA2012-003 Intel processors sysret to non-canonical address behaviour
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
06 Jun 2012 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2012-001 OpenSSL buffer overflow in DER and -002 TLS/DTLS record attack
Two new security advisories were published:
- NetBSD-SA2012-001 OpenSSL buffer overflow in DER read function
- NetBSD-SA2012-002 OpenSSL Invalid TLS/DTLS record attack
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
May 2012
26 May 2012 - NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 binaries available
On behalf of the NetBSD developers, Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of a public beta 2 of NetBSD 6.0. The binaries can be found at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_BETA2/; ISO images are available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_BETA2/iso/.
Please see our blog entry for more details.
23 May 2012 - New Developers
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developers:
- Pierre Pronchery (login: khorben), who will be working on desktop integration and security.
- Patrick Welche (login: prlw1), who will be working on Gnome Desktop accessibility in pkgsrc.
- Tamas Toth (login: ttoth), who will be working on CHFS.
- Paul Fleischer (login: xpg), who will be working on the FriendlyARM port.
April 2012
07 Apr 2012 - pkgsrc-2012Q1 has been branched
pkgsrc-2012Q1 has been released.
01 Apr 2012 - New Developers
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
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
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
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
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.