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

December 2019

November 2019

October 2019

September 2019

August 2019

July 2019

June 2019

May 2019

April 2019

February 2019

January 2019

December 2019

16 Dec 2019 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2019-006

A security advisory was published:

01 Dec 2019 - New Developer in November 2019

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

  • Siddharth Muralee (login: siddharth), who will be working on security and testing.

November 2019

26 Nov 2019 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2019-005

A security advisory was published:

01 Nov 2019 - New Developer in October 2019

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

  • Ulrich Teichert (login: krypton), who will be working on prep port (ppc).

October 2019

03 Oct 2019 - pkgsrc-2019Q3 released

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2019Q3 branch, the 64th pkgsrc release.

Please see the release announcement for more information.

01 Oct 2019 - New Developer in September 2019

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

  • Jason High (login: jhigh), who will be working on networking, virtualization and documentation.

September 2019

01 Sep 2019 - New Developer in August 2019

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

  • Juraj Lutter (login: otis), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection.

August 2019

08 Aug 2019 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2019-004

A security advisory was published:

01 Aug 2019 - New Developer in July 2019

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

  • Nikita Ronja Gillmann (login: nikita), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection.

July 2019

08 Jul 2019 - pkgsrc-2019Q2 released

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2019Q2 branch, the 63rd pkgsrc release.

Please see the release announcement for more information.

June 2019

01 Jun 2019 - New Developers in May 2019

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

  • Michael Bäuerle (login: micha), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection.
  • Frederic Cambus (login: fcambus), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection.

May 2019

31 May 2019 - NetBSD 8.1 released

NetBSD 8.1 release has been announced. The binaries and installation images are available at //cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1/.

Please see the blog post for more information.

20 May 2019 - NetBSD 8.1_RC1 binaries available

The first (and hopefully final) release candidate for the upcoming 8.1 release has been announced. The binaries and installation images are available at //cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1_RC1/.

Please see the blog post for more information.

02 May 2019 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2019-00[2-3]

Two new security advisories were published:

01 May 2019 - New Developer in April 2019

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

  • Sijmen J. Mulder (login: sjmulder), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection.
  • Zachary McGrew (login: zmcgrew), who will be working on kernel and documentation.

April 2019

10 Apr 2019 - pkgsrc-2019Q1 released

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2019Q1 branch, the 62nd pkgsrc release.

Please see the release announcement for more information.

01 Apr 2019 - New Developer in March 2019

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

  • Yuuki Enomoto (login: uki), who will be working on installation.

February 2019

06 Feb 2019 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2019-001

A new security advisory was published:

01 Feb 2019 - New Developer in January 2019

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

  • Michał Górny (login: mgorny), who will be working on llvm.

January 2019

01 Jan 2019 - New Developer in December 2018

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

  • David H. Gutteridge (login: gutteridge), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection and documentation.