Announcing NetBSD 6.1
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.
Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1. Please see the release map graph on the NetBSD website for a visual representation of the relationship between releases.
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.1 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/. We encourage users who wish to install via ISO or USB disk images to download via BitTorrent by using the torrent files supplied in the images area. A list of hashes for the NetBSD 6.1 distribution has been signed with the well-connected PGP key for the NetBSD Security Officer: https://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/hashes/NetBSD-6.1_hashes.asc
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Your donations to the NetBSD Foundation have allowed the project to make major improvements to the code base. With the release of NetBSD 6.1, we would like to continue funded development in various areas, including:
- Improving network stack concurrency and performance.
- Development of modern file systems and improvement of existing ones.
- Features which are useful in embedded environments, such as high resolution timers and execute in place (XIP) support.
- Automatic testing and quality assurance.
The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES-6.1 file in the top level directory of the NetBSD 6.1 release tree. An abbreviated list is as follows:
- NetBSD-SA2013-001, Kernel panic triggered from userland
- NetBSD-SA2013-002, kqueue related kernel panic triggered from userland
- NetBSD-SA2013-003, RNG Bug May Result in Weak Cryptographic Keys
- NetBSD-SA2013-004, Vulnerabilities in grep
- expat: Fix CVE-2012-1147, CVE-2012-1148 and CVE-2012-0876.
- BIND: Address CVE-2012-5688: Named could die on specific queries with dns64 enabled.
- Fixed a crash which could happen with sysctl security.curtain=1 set. (PR#47598)
- Address CVE-2012-5667: Multiple integer overflows in GNU grep.
- Several fixes to entropy handling in the kernel.
- Prevent ktrace from being able to crash the kernel.
- posix_spawn(): Fix processes with attributes.
- Resolve races between vget() and vrele() resulting in vget() returning dead vnodes.
- Prevent crash when unsupported fd's are used with kevent.
- Fix a bug where kmem_alloc() could be called from interrupt context.
- WAPBL: coalesce writes to the journal to speed up wapbl_flush() on raid5 by a factor of 3 to 4.
- Fix "atomic fragments" for IPv6.
- ipf: Fix alignment issues in ipmon. (PR#47101)
- npf: handle delayed checksums in the network stack. (PR#47235)
- Fixed some locking issues in ipf(4)
- npf(3): Many fixes and updates. Config syntax has changed somewhat, please check your config files.
- Fixed sendto(2) issue with IPv6 UDP datagrams. (PR#47408)
- vioif(4): Fixed an issue which caused recent QEMU to crash.
- smbfs: Make smbfs actually work on big-endian ports.
- smbfs: various fixes. (PR#25070)
- Allow mounting ext2fs and msdosfs in 32-bit compat mode.
- v7fs: fix off-by-one error.
- ciss(4): don't try to handle sensors if there aren't any.
- isp(4): Fix FC-AL devices on QLogic ISP2100. (PR#47302)
- mfi(4): Add support for LSI Thunderbolt (SAS2208) controllers.
- mfi(4): Add support for running the MegaCLI Linux binary to manage the controller.
- puc(4): Additional device support.
- bge(4): Add support for Apple's Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter. (PR#46961)
- mvgbe(4): fix a number of issues
- nfe(4): Avoid bounce buffering and improve performance.
- wm(4): Fix handling of 82578D and 82579V chips. Various other fixes.
- fss(4): Don't crash when running multiple dump -X. (PR#47514)
- fss(4): Fixed panic. (PR#47020)
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alpha:
- Fixed longjmp/setjmp on alpha for statically linked programs such as those in /rescue.
-
amiga:
- New ed(4) device driver for Hydra and ASDG Zorro2 bus network cards.
-
arm:
- Fix gcc bugid 51408 for arm. (PR#46972)
- Fixed a bit check in the Kirkwood IRQ code.
- Fixed incorrect counts for 'vmstat -e' on Kirkwood.
- Make bigendian ARM get the MBR partition and offset correct. (PR#47081)
- Fixed bug where IRQ masks of GPIO were set incorrectly on Marvell SoCs.
- Fixed static linking on ARM platforms. (PR#47139)
- Properly block IRQs >= 32. (PR#45371)
- Greatly improved Raspberry Pi support - USB and onboard Ethernet now work.
- Enabled DCache Streaming Switch and Write Allocate for Sheeva CPUs.
- Added support for the watchdog timer in some Marvell SoCs.
- Fix for non-MBR disks on ARM. (PR#47463)
-
mips:
- MIPS ports have switched to gdb 7.3.1. GDB6 is removed.
-
vax:
- Reverted MAXPARTITION bump to 16, lowering it to 12 instead, to fix bootblocks and installboot for VAX 780 and other machines booting via VMB.EXE.
-
x68k:
- Update bootloader: cdboot, netboot support and bugfixes.
- Add floppy format support.
-
x86 (i386,
amd64):
- Work around a possible gcc bug generating bad assembler code. (PR#45673)
- Disable C1E on AMD K8 CPUs, to prevent freeze during boot.
- Fix running BSDi and NetBSD <= 1.0 binaries. (PR#41341)
- Add support in ld.elf_so for relocation type R_386_TLS_TPOFF32. (PR#47061)
- Fix some ACPI panics. (PR#47016)
- The amd64 port now supports dtrace. (Not compiled in by default)
- xen:
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Library Updates
- pthread(3): libpthread minor number was bumped for the addition of pthread_cond_setclock(). Threaded binaries built on NetBSD 6.1 will not function on NetBSD 6.0.
- pthread(3): libpthread can be dlopen()ed again.
- terminfo(3): Various fixes to libterminfo.
- libc: fix memory corruption in rpc. (PR#13082)
- libutil: Fixed a bug in parsedate(3) where it would treat all input as if it were in the local time zone.
- Update to tzdata2013c.
- cdb: don't refuse to open databases without entries or keys.
- Address graphics corruption in recent Cairo, manifested most commonly by certain rendered text sections appearing as solid rectangular blocks of color.
- Added flock(1), inspired by the Linux program of the same name.
- Updated Postfix to version 2.8.13.
- wsconsctl(8): add support for touchscreen calibration. (PR#45872)
- openssl: Fixed a multiple-free bug.
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The NetBSD 6.1 release provides supported binary distributions for the following systems:
| NetBSD/acorn26 | Acorn Archimedes, A-series and R-series systems |
| NetBSD/acorn32 | Acorn RiscPC/A7000, VLSI RC7500 |
| NetBSD/algor | Algorithmics, Ltd. MIPS evaluation boards |
| NetBSD/alpha | Digital/Compaq Alpha (64-bit) |
| NetBSD/amd64 | AMD family processors like Opteron, Athlon64, and Intel CPUs with EM64T extension |
| NetBSD/amiga | Commodore Amiga and MacroSystem DraCo |
| NetBSD/amigappc | PowerPC-based Amiga boards. |
| NetBSD/arc | MIPS-based machines following the Advanced RISC Computing spec |
| NetBSD/atari | Atari TT030, Falcon, Hades |
| NetBSD/bebox | Be Inc's BeBox |
| NetBSD/cats | Chalice Technology's CATS and Intel's EBSA-285 evaluation boards |
| NetBSD/cesfic | CES FIC8234 VME processor board |
| NetBSD/cobalt | Cobalt Networks' MIPS-based Microservers |
| NetBSD/dreamcast | Sega Dreamcast game console |
| NetBSD/emips | The Extensible MIPS architecture from Microsoft Research |
| NetBSD/evbarm | Various ARM-based evaluation boards and appliances |
| NetBSD/evbmips | Various MIPS-based evaluation boards and appliances |
| NetBSD/evbppc | Various PowerPC-based evaluation boards and appliances |
| NetBSD/evbsh3 | Various Hitachi Super-H SH3 and SH4-based evaluation boards and appliances |
| NetBSD/ews4800mips | NEC's MIPS-based EWS4800 workstation |
| NetBSD/hp300 | Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 and 400 series |
| NetBSD/hppa | Hewlett-Packard 9000 Series 700 workstations |
| NetBSD/hpcarm | StrongARM based Windows CE PDA machines |
| NetBSD/hpcmips | MIPS-based Windows CE PDA machines |
| NetBSD/hpcsh | Hitachi Super-H based Windows CE PDA machines |
| NetBSD/i386 | IBM PCs and PC clones with i486-family processors and up |
| NetBSD/ibmnws | IBM Network Station 1000 |
| NetBSD/iyonix | Castle Technology's Iyonix ARM based PCs |
| NetBSD/landisk | SH4 processor based NAS appliances |
| NetBSD/luna68k | OMRON Tateisi Electric's LUNA series |
| NetBSD/mac68k | Apple Macintosh with Motorola 68k CPU |
| NetBSD/macppc | Apple PowerPC-based Macintosh and clones |
| NetBSD/mipsco | MIPS Computer Systems Inc. family of workstations and servers |
| NetBSD/mmeye | Brains mmEye multimedia server |
| NetBSD/mvme68k | Motorola MVME 68k Single Board Computers |
| NetBSD/mvmeppc | Motorola PowerPC VME Single Board Computers |
| NetBSD/netwinder | StrongARM based NetWinder machines |
| NetBSD/news68k | Sony's 68k-based “NET WORK STATION” series |
| NetBSD/newsmips | Sony's MIPS-based “NET WORK STATION” series |
| NetBSD/next68k | NeXT 68k “black” hardware |
| NetBSD/ofppc | OpenFirmware PowerPC machines |
| NetBSD/pmax | Digital MIPS-based DECstations and DECsystems |
| NetBSD/prep | PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) and CHRP machines |
| NetBSD/rs6000 | IBM RS/6000 MCA-based PowerPC machines. |
| NetBSD/sandpoint | Motorola Sandpoint reference platform, including many PPC-based NAS boxes |
| NetBSD/sbmips | Broadcom SiByte evaluation boards |
| NetBSD/sgimips | Silicon Graphics' MIPS-based workstations |
| NetBSD/shark | Digital DNARD (“shark”) |
| NetBSD/sparc | Sun SPARC (32-bit) and UltraSPARC (in 32-bit mode) |
| NetBSD/sparc64 | Sun UltraSPARC (in native 64-bit mode) |
| NetBSD/sun2 | Sun Microsystems Sun 2 machines with Motorola 68010 CPU |
| NetBSD/sun3 | Motorola 68020 and 030 based Sun 3 and 3x machines |
| NetBSD/vax | Digital VAX |
| NetBSD/x68k | Sharp X680x0 series |
| NetBSD/xen | The Xen virtual machine monitor |
| NetBSD/zaurus | Sharp ARM PDAs |
Ports available in source form only for this release include the following:
| NetBSD/ia64 | Itanium family of processors |
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