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

October 2020

June 2020

May 2020

April 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:

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:

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:

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.