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.

Changes to specific areas

Changes in previous years

See also

NetBSD BlogThe NetBSD Project's Blog

November 2014

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August 2014

July 2014

June 2014

May 2014

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March 2014

January 2014

November 2014

15 Nov 2014 - NetBSD 5.1.5 and 5.2.3 released

NetBSD 5.1.5 and 5.2.3 have been released. Please see the release notes for 5.1.5 and 5.2.3 for details. As always, NetBSD can be downloaded from your nearest mirror.

03 Nov 2014 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2014-013 through 015 affecting ftp(1), the mount kernel interface, and OpenSSL and SSLv3

Three new security advisory were published:

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

September 2014

22 Sep 2014 - NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 released

NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 are now available! Please see the release notes for 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 for details. As always, NetBSD can be downloaded from your nearest mirror.

08 Sep 2014 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2014-009 through 012 affecting execve, the compatibility layer, module loading and the setsockopt call

Four new security advisory were published:

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

02 Sep 2014 - Updated Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-008 Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities

One updated security advisory was published:

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

August 2014

27 Aug 2014 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-008 Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities

One new security advisory was published:

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

July 2014

17 Jul 2014 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-007 bozohttpd basic http authentication bypass

One new security advisory was published:

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

June 2014

09 Jun 2014 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-006 Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities

One new security advisory was published:

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

May 2014

28 May 2014 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-005 libXfont multiple vulnerabilities

One new security advisory was published:

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

April 2014

12 Apr 2014 - NetBSD 6.1.4 and 6.0.5 released

NetBSD 6.1.4 and 6.0.5 are now available! Please see the release notes for 6.1.4 and 6.0.5 for details. As always, NetBSD can be downloaded from your nearest mirror.

09 Apr 2014 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-004 OpenSSL information disclosure ("heartbleed")

One new security advisory was published:

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

March 2014

05 Mar 2014 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-003 posix_spawn unbounded kernel memory allocation

One new security advisory was published:

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

January 2014

07 Jan 2014 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-002 ntpd used as DDoS amplifier

One new security advisory was published:

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

07 Jan 2014 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2014-001 Stack buffer overflow in libXfont

One new security advisory was published:

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