NetBSD: Changes and News in 2015
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)
- Changes to pkgsrc
- Security patches
October 2015
- 22 Oct 2015 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2015-009 TCP LAST_ACK state memory exhaustion
- 14 Oct 2015 - New NetBSD Board of Directors
September 2015
August 2015
- 19 Aug 2015 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2015-007 and NetBSD-SA2015-008 OpenSSL, SSLv3 and TLS
- 18 Aug 2015 - NetBSD 7.0_RC3 binaries available
July 2015
June 2015
March 2015
January 2015
October 2015
22 Oct 2015 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2015-009 TCP LAST_ACK state memory exhaustion
One new security advisory was published:
- NetBSD-SA2015-009 TCP LAST_ACK state memory exhaustion
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
14 Oct 2015 - New NetBSD Board of Directors
The NetBSD developers recently elected new board members. The current directors on The NetBSD Foundation Board are: Erik Berls, William J. Coldwell. Jeremy C. Reed, SAITOH Masanobu, Matthew Sporleder, S.P.Zeidler, and Christos Zoulas. The new president is William J. Coldwell. (The other officers continue in their existing positions.)
Thank you to the outgoing board members and former presidents: Amitai Schleier and Matthias Scheler.
See The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. webpage for more information about the Foundation and the board members.
September 2015
25 Sep 2015 - NetBSD 7.0
The final release of NetBSD 7.0 has been announced. Binaries and installation images are available at http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0/.
See https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.0.html for more information.
August 2015
19 Aug 2015 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2015-007 and NetBSD-SA2015-008 OpenSSL, SSLv3 and TLS
Two new security advisories were published:
- NetBSD-SA2015-007 OpenSSL and SSLv3 vulnerabilities
- NetBSD-SA2015-008 OpenSSL and TLS protocol vulnerabilities
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
18 Aug 2015 - NetBSD 7.0_RC3 binaries available
The third release candidate for the upcoming 7.0 release has been announced. The binaries and installation images are available at http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0_RC3/.
Also see the blog article at http://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_0_rc3.
July 2015
28 July 2015 - NetBSD 7.0_RC2 binaries available
The second release candidate for the upcoming 7.0 release has been announced. The binaries and installation images are available at http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0_RC2/.
Also see the blog article at http://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_0_rc2.
June 2015
21 June 2015 - NetBSD 7.0_RC1 binaries available
The first release candidate for the upcoming 7.0 release has been announced. The binaries and installation images are available at http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0_RC1/.
Also see the blog article at http://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_7_0_rc1_binaries.
March 2015
19 Mar 2015 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2015-003 through 006 affecting NTPd, compatibility layers, libevent and OpenSSL
Four new security advisories were published:
- NetBSD-SA2015-003 NTPd multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-929[3-6])
- NetBSD-SA2015-004 Two vulnerabilities in the compatibility layers
- NetBSD-SA2015-005 buffer overflow in libevent (CVE-2014-6272)
- NetBSD-SA2015-006 OpenSSL and SSLv3 vulnerabilities
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
January 2015
08 Jan 2015 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2015-001 Xorg server arbitrary code execution and -002 bind Denial of Service
Two new security advisories were published:
- NetBSD-SA2015-001 Protocol handling issues in X Window System servers
- NetBSD-SA2015-002 bind Denial of Service (CVE-2014-8500)
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.