Announcing NetBSD 8.1 (May 31, 2019)

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.1, the first update of the NetBSD 8 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.

Some highlights of the 8.1 release are:

The complete list of changes since NetBSD 8.1 can be found in the CHANGES-8.1 file in the top level directory of the NetBSD 8.1 release tree.

Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 8.1 are available for download from our CDN and many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/. A list of hashes for the NetBSD 8.1 distribution has been signed with the well-connected PGP key for the NetBSD Security Officer: NetBSD-8.1_hashes.

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The NetBSD 8.1 release provides supported binary distributions for the following systems:

Ports available in source form only for this release include the following:

The NetBSD Foundation would like to thank all those who have contributed code, hardware, documentation, funds, colocation for our servers, web pages and other documentation, release engineering, and other resources over the years. More information on the people who make NetBSD happen is available at:

We would like to especially thank the University of California at Berkeley and the GNU Project for particularly large subsets of code that we use. We would also like to thank the Internet Systems Consortium Inc. and the Network Security Lab at Columbia University's Computer Science Department for current colocation services.

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