NetBSD: Changes and News in 2020
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.
October 2020
- 20 Oct 2020 - NetBSD 9.1 released
- 13 Oct 2020 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2020-003
- 09 Oct 2020 - pkgsrc-2020Q3 released
- 01 Oct 2020 - New Developer in September 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
- 06 Apr 2020 - pkgsrc-2020Q1 released
- 02 Apr 2020 - Extended support of the netbsd-7 branch
- 02 Apr 2020 - NetBSD 8.2 released
- 01 Apr 2020 - New Developer in March 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
October 2020
20 Oct 2020 - NetBSD 9.1 released
The NetBSD 9.1 release has been announced. The binaries and installation images are available at from our CDN.
Please see the blog post for more information.
13 Oct 2020 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2020-003
A security advisory was published:
- NetBSD-SA2020-003 USB network interface jumbo packet memory corruption
09 Oct 2020 - pkgsrc-2020Q3 released
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2020Q3 branch, the 68th pkgsrc release.
Please see the release announcement for more information.
01 Oct 2020 - New Developer in September 2020
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:
- Michael Forney (login: mcf), who will be working on Linux and the NetBSD Packages Collection.
June 2020
30 Jun 2020 - pkgsrc-2020Q2 released
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2020Q2 branch, the 67th pkgsrc release.
Please see the release announcement for more information.
May 2020
01 May 2020 - New Developer in April 2020
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:
- Jonathan Schleifer (login: js), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection.
April 2020
06 Apr 2020 - pkgsrc-2020Q1 released
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2020Q1 branch, the 66th pkgsrc release.
Please see the release announcement for more information.
02 Apr 2020 - Extended support of the netbsd-7 branch
The support for netbsd-7 branch has been extended for another three months (for now).
Please see the blog post for more information.
02 Apr 2020 - NetBSD 8.2 released
NetBSD 8.2 release has been announced. The binaries and installation images are available at //cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.2/.
Please see the blog post for more information.
01 Apr 2020 - New Developer in March 2020
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:
- Pedro Pinho (login: pin), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection.
March 2020
10 Mar 2020 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2020-002
A security advisory was published:
- NetBSD-SA2020-002 Specific ICMPv6 error message packet can crash the system
February 2020
14 Feb 2020 - NetBSD 9.0 released
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.0, the seventeenth major release of the NetBSD operating system.
For more information please read the Release Anouncement.
13 Feb 2020 - 2020 fundraising
The NetBSD Foundation has announced our 2020 fundraising campaign, with a goal of raising $50,000 for funded development projects.
For more information please read the Fundraising 2020 blog post.
January 2020
21 Jan 2020 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2020-001
A security advisory was published:
- NetBSD-SA2020-001 Missing permissions checks for network ioctls
06 Jan 2020 - pkgsrc-2019Q4 released
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2019Q4 branch, the 65th pkgsrc release.
Please see the release announcement for more information.