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. The contents of this file and the package changes are also available in rss/xml format.

Changes to specific areas

Changes in previous years

See also

O'Reilly BSD DevCenter Daemon News Slashdot - BSD Section O'Reilly ONLamp.com

March 2006

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April 2005

March 2006

12 Mar 2006 - NetBSD promo material updated (top)

Hubert Feyrer working with Stefan Schumacher, Joerg Pernfuss and Rainer Brinkmöller, has updated a bunch of NetBSD promo material:

04 Mar 2006 - Developer Interviews (top)

DaemonNews is running a series of interviews by Emmanuel Dreyfus with various NetBSD developers. The first two interviews were published at the beginning of February and March 2006 and are with Manuel Bouyer regarding NetBSD/xen and with der Mouse focusing on his real-time backup system.

More interviews are scheduled for the coming months.

February 2006

24 Feb 2006 - New mailing list for pkgsrc users (top)

The NetBSD Project has created a new mailing list to better serve the pkgsrc user community and to help refocus the existing mailing list for technical discussions. The charters for these two lists are:

All current subscribers to the tech-pkg mailing list are encouraged to subscribe to the pkgsrc-users mailing list.

Please see also complete announcement from Johnny C. Lam.

23 Feb 2006 - Changes to the Packages Collection in January 2006 (top)

The monthly summary of pkgsrc activities has been published by Alistair G. Crooks. At the end of January 2006, there were 5853 packages in the Packages Collection, up from 5779 the previous month, a rise of 74.

A special “thank you” goes to Mark Davies for upgrading KDE packages to version 3.5.1, whilst a number of other packages have been moved around to reflect better their primary category.

The Package of the Month award goes to sysutils/vip, nominated by Stoned Elipot. Despite its name, vip uses your editor of choice, and is most frequently found in shell pipelines, to edit text coming from one command before it is submitted to the next command. As Stoned says: “When you're in the midst of slowly building a long shell pipeline and something goes wrong it's so easy to throw |vip| somewhere in it to check the plumbing!” And Alistair adding: “I know I find myself using vip as a pager on the output from commands, since its searching capabilities are much, much better than screen's, and it's incredibly useful when those pipes get long.”

22 Feb 2006 - NetBSD iSCSI Status and HOWTOs (top)

Alistair G. Crooks has recently added support for an iSCSI target to NetBSD, and written HOWTOs for using it. iSCSI is specified in RFC 3720 and describes a method for encapsulating SCSI commands in TCP/IP to remotely access block-level storage. In iSCSI, the party offering a SCSI device (the server) is called a “target”, and the party using that device (the client) is called an “initiator”, so the iSCSI target exports blocks to the iSCSI initiators.

NetBSD's iSCSI implementation was developed from the original Intel code (BSD-licensed) and has been tested with version 1.06 of the Microsoft initiator as well as with its own test harness; an iSCSI initiator for NetBSD is currently under development.

Please see the HOWTOs on setting up both a target and an initiator, as well as the original email from Alistair.

15 Feb 2006 - Permission to Incorporate POSIX® Material (top)

The IEEE and The Open Group have granted permission to the NetBSD Foundation to incorporate documentation for more than 1,400 interfaces from the joint IEEE 1003.1" POSIX® standard and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 into its NetBSD operating system.

The POSIX standard, which also forms the core volumes of Version 3 of The Open Group's Single UNIX® Specification, defines a set of fundamental services needed for the construction of portable application programs. The more than 1,400 interfaces from the standard the NetBSD Foundation can now use includes header files, interfaces for system and library calls, and utilities.

Please see the press release for more information.

02 Feb 2006 - UDF file system added (top)

Reinoud Zandijk has added a new implementation of the UDF file system to the NetBSD source tree. UDF is a file system defined by the OSTA standardisation group and is tailored for data interchange on optical discs (like CDs and DVDs) between different operating systems. Its also more and more common on other media like Compact Flash (CF) cards.

See Reinoud's mail to the current-users mailinglist for more details.

02 Feb 2006 - New Developer (top)

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

January 2006

31 Jan 2006 - Changes to the Packages Collection in December 2005 (top)

By calculations of Alistair G. Crooks, at the end of December 2005, there were 5779 packages in the Packages Collection, up from 5737 the previous month, a rise of 42.

The pkgsrc team branched the pkgsrc repository, and released the pkgsrc-2005Q4 branch in December. The pkgsrc-2005Q3 branch has been deprecated, and continuing engineering has started on pkgsrc-2005Q4. We're quite proud of the new branch - we hope you enjoy it.

The Package of the Month award goes to Eterm (x11/eterm). “I've been using it as my terminal program of choice for over 6 years, and recently I enabled the Escreen mode with it. The Escreen mode interacts with screen - misc/screen - in a seamless way, provides tabbed access to screen windows, and integrates frequent screen commands in an Eterm menu. Highly recommended.” - says Alistair.

See his complete email message to netbsd-users.

28 Jan 2006 - NetBSD Internals book added (top)

Julio M. Merino Vidal has published documentation about file system internals in the form of a new on-line book: the NetBSD Internals book. This aims to be a detailed guide about the design and implementation of NetBSD, including its kernel and user-land utilities.

Most of this text was written during tmpfs development — his Google Summer of Code project — as one of its goals was precisely to write such documentation.

Please note that this documentation is still incomplete and very much work-in-progress. Feedback, fixes and extensions are certainly welcome.

25 Jan 2006 - Status Report Q3/Q4 2005 published (top)

Jan Schaumann published the NetBSD Foundation's first status report in 2006, covering the months July though December of 2005. Among many other things, this status report includes the release of both NetBSD 2.1 and NetBSD 3.0, a summary of the NetBSD Project's participation in Google's Summer of Code and the release of two stable pkgsrc branches. It is available online at http://www.NetBSD.org/Foundation/reports/2005Q3Q4.html.

24 Jan 2006 - Announcement of pkgsrcCon 2006 (top)

The third pkgsrc conference will be held on May 5-7, 2006 in Paris, France. Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot is graciously hosting the conference on their campus.

pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend, and to share an excellent opportunity to gather and to discuss ideas face-to-face on how to improve pkgsrc.

For more information, including:

please visit http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/.

09 Jan 2006 - Two new security advisories (top)

Two new security advisories were published:

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

NetBSD 3.0 is not affected by any of the vulnerabilities.

01 Jan 2006 - New Developers (top)

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

December 2005

30 Dec 2005 - NetBSD/amd64 binary packages for pkgsrc-2005Q4 available (top)

Jan Schauman has announced that pkgsrc-2005Q4 binary packages for the amd64 port are now available, and have been uploaded to ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/3.0/amd64/. Please use a mirror site close to you.

30 Dec 2005 - pkgsrc-2005Q4 has been branched (top)

The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2005Q4 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. As well as updated versions of many many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support, and also for enhanced security. At the same time, the pkgsrc-2005Q3 branch has been deprecated, and continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2005Q4 branch.

The source tar files for the new branch can be found at:

You can also use the pkgsrc-2005Q4 tag to check it out yourself from anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors

Please see the detailed pkgsrc-2005Q3 announcement in Alistair G. Crooks's email to the tech-pkg mailing list for more information.

30 Dec 2005 - Inside NetBSD's cgd (top)

O'Reilly ONLamp.com has published an interview of Federico Biancuzzi with NetBSD's Roland Dowdeswell, discussing the cryptographic disk driver, cgd(4), which was introduced by Roland in NetBSD 2.0.

23 Dec 2005 - NetBSD 3.0 released (top)

NetBSD 3.0, the eleventh major release of the NetBSD operating system, has been released with binary distributions for 53 architectures.

NetBSD 3.0 continues our long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, major security enhancements, and support for new platforms and peripherals.

NetBSD 3.0 now features PAM (OpenPAM), TCP SACK, TCP MD5, pf(4), IPsec ESP/IKE over NAT, IPv4 PIM, tap(4) and much more hardware support than before. Check the release announcement for more detailed information.

Many of the FTP Mirrors are now carrying the NetBSD 3.0 distribution. Please try to use BitTorrent to retrieve the available ISO images. If you can't, then download the ISO file directly from the NetBSD FTP Mirror Site closest to you.

12 Dec 2005 - NetBSD 3.0 RC6 available (top)

In a message to the netbsd-announce list, Matthias Scheler, member of the NetBSD release engineering team, announced the availability of NetBSD 3.0 RC6 on the FTP server of the NetBSD project. This, hopefuly, latest release candidate fixes and updates some drivers and some last-minute corrections. For a more detailed list of the latest changes please see Matthias Scheler's original announcement.

For downloads of NetBSD 3.0 RC6, please consider one of the mirrors of the release engineering FTP server.

06 Dec 2005 - Freeze of pkgsrc tree for pkgsrc-2005Q4 (top)

In a message to the tech-pkg mailing list Alistair G. Crooks announced that the NetBSD Packages Team will stop the development of non-essential changes for pkgsrc to prepare for the release of the next stable branch pkgsrc-2005Q4. The freeze period will begin December 12th 2005 and is expected to last about two weeks. During this period, the developers will bring down the number of open problem reports and fix problems shown by the bulk builds.

02 Dec 2005 - Changes to the Packages Collection in November 2005 (top)

The monthly summary of pkgsrc activities has been published by Alistair G. Crooks. At the end of November pkgsrc contained 5737 packages, an increase of 80 new packages from the previous month.

The “Package of the Month” award goes to emulators/gxemul, an emulator capable of running several different ports of NetBSD.

02 Dec 2005 - NetBSD 3.0 RC5 available (top)

In a message to the netbsd-announce list, Matthias Scheler, member of the NetBSD release engineering team, announced the availability of NetBSD 3.0 RC5 on the FTP server of the NetBSD project. This latest release candidate solves some security issues and fixes a few driver problems. For a more detailed list of the latest changes please see Matthias Scheler's original announcement.

For downloads of NetBSD 3.0 RC5, please consider one of the mirrors of the release engineering FTP server.

In addition to the usual set of archive files there were also ISO images created for NetBSD 3.0 RC5.

01 Dec 2005 - New Developers (top)

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

November 2005

29 Nov 2005 - Status of NetBSD 3.0 release (top)

Matthias Scheler of the NetBSD Release Engineering team has sent an update on the status of the release process for NetBSD 3.0 to the mailing list netbsd-announce. The fifth release candidate (NetBSD 3.0_RC5) has been tagged in the CVS repository. Builds of this version are expected to be available later this week.

24 Nov 2005 - New official “Powered by NetBSD” logo (top)

After switching to a new official NetBSD logo some time ago, an official logo for websites running NetBSD was not available. Thanks to the artistic skills of Jacek Kutzmann, NetBSD is now proud to announce the availability of the new official “Powered by NetBSD” logo. It can be used for commercial and non-commercial products and web sites provided that they are powered by the NetBSD operating system or make use of the pkgsrc packages system.

Please see the press release for more information, or see the NetBSD Logos webpage.

18 Nov 2005 - NetBSD 3.0 RC1 available (top)

On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, Matthias Scheler has announced that the release process for NetBSD 3.0 has officially begun. The first release candidate is available for download from this URL. (The list of significant source changes from NetBSD 2.0 to 3.0 is available here.)

The second Release Candidate is expected to be available on the FTP server in about a week, and we hope this will be the final release candidate. If all goes well the final release of 3.0 is only approximately three weeks away!

08 Nov 2005 - Donation Results (top)

A few months ago, the NetBSD Project made a call for donations. This was widely publicized, and our community of donors responded extremely generously. Over the next few months, we received almost $30,000 of donations, including a number of donations of several thousand dollars each. As previously outlined, this money was earmarked for specific purchases, and the NetBSD Project would like to let our users know what in particular was bought from these generous donations.

Thor Lancelot Simon, who initated the original call for donations and who has put countless hours into the entire process (including drawing up the specifications, installating the hardware and configuring the software), published this detailed summary, indicating exactly how the money was used. Many thanks to Thor and, again, all our donors!

02 Nov 2005 - NetBSD 2.1 released (top)

NetBSD 2.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.1 release announcement.

Many of the FTP Mirrors are now carrying the NetBSD 2.1 distribution. Please try to use the NetBSD FTP Mirror Site closest to you. In addition, we also encourage the use of net/bittorrent to retrieve all available ISO images.

Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish language translations of the NetBSD 2.1 release announcement are also available.

02 Nov 2005 - New Security Advisories (top)

Security Advisories 2005-003 through 2005-013 have been released on a range of issues. The NetBSD 2.1 release contains fixes for most of these issues, but special attention is warranted on the most recent three, which did not make it into 2.1:

All users of older versions are encouraged to upgrade to NetBSD 2.1 to collect the fixes for all known security issues prior to these. The forthcoming NetBSD 2.1.1 update will include the fixes for these remaining issues, which are available in source form from CVS now. Users tracking -current and 3.0_BETA are also encouraged to upgrade in accordance with these advisories.

Please check the Security Advisories page for full details of all advisories.

01 Nov 2005 - New Developers (top)

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

01 Nov 2005 - Changes to the Packages Collection in October 2005 (top)

Alistair G. Crooks has posted his monthly account of the changes to the Packages Collection in October 2005. By his calculations, at the end of October 2005, there were 5657 packages in the Packages Collection, up from 5558 the previous month, a rise of 99.

The Package of the Month award (jointly) goes to:

Please read Alistair G. Crooks's message for details.

October 2005

22 Oct 2005 - Changes to the Packages Collection in September 2005 (top)

At the end of September 2005, there were 5558 packages in the Packages Collection. Please read Alistair G. Crooks's message to learn more details about the changes to the Packages Collection, including notable additions, updates and choosing the Package of the Month September: archivers/rzip.

21 Oct 2005 - New timelines for upcoming NetBSD 3.0 (top)

Matthias Scheler of the NetBSD Release Engineering team announced an update to the estimated timeframe for the upcoming release of NetBSD 3.0. NetBSD 3.0 is planned to be released in the second half of November 2005. As usual, this date is still subject to change.

More details about the release schedule can be found in Matthias Scheler's message to the netbsd-announce mailing list.

16 Oct 2005 - Summer of Code Summary (top)

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce the results of its participation in Google's Open Source program, the “Summer of Code”. After several weeks of hard work, all participating projects have been completed in time and according to the set goals and have subsequently been rated a success. For more details, please refer to the press release.

01 Oct 2005 - New Developers (top)

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

September 2005

26 Sep 2005 - pkgsrc-2005Q3 has been branched (top)

The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2005Q3 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches (5551 packages supported on 13 platforms). As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support, and also for enhanced security. At the same time, the pkgsrc-2005Q2 branch has been deprecated, and continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2005Q3 branch.

We would also like to thank the Dragonfly BSD project for adopting pkgsrc as their packaging system - this is the first pkgsrc branch since that announcement, and we have brought on board some Dragonfly developers specifically to look after issues related to that platform.

The source tar files for the new branch can be found at:

And of course, you can also use the pkgsrc-2005Q3 tag to check it out yourself from anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors.

Please see the detailed pkgsrc-2005Q3 announcement in Alistair G. Crooks's email to the netbsd-announce mailing list.

25 Sep 2005 - NetBSD 2.1 RC5 available (top)

The NetBSD Release Engineering team has announced that NetBSD 2.1 RC5 is available for testing. (A security issue came up shortly after RC4 was tagged, so it was never announced).

NetBSD 2.1 RC5 is available in the “daily builds” section of The NetBSD Project's FTP site - ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-1-RC5/ (please use mirrors if possible).

We anticipate that this will be the final release candidate for NetBSD 2.1, barring any major issues or security problems, so we also highly encourage you to test it out and report any bugs using send-pr(1) utility.

For more information see Jeff Rizzo's email to the netbsd-announce mailing list.

10 Sep 2005 - file system tmpfs added to NetBSD (top)

Julio M. Merino Vidal has added the result of his summer project, a new memory-based file system written as a part of Google's Summer of Code (SoC) campaign, to the NetBSD source tree. A detailed description how to use the new file system can be found in Julio M. Merino Vidal's message to the mailing list tech-kern.

A report about the SoC projects related to NetBSD will probably be released in October.

08 Sep 2005 - pkgsrc tree frozen for pkgsrc-2005Q3 (top)

Today, Alistair G. Crooks announced in a message to the tech-pkg mailing list that the NetBSD Packages Team has frozen the development of new features for pkgsrc to prepare for the release of the next stable branch pkgsrc-2005Q3. The freeze period has begun September 8th 2005 and is expected to last two weeks. During this period, the developers will bring down the number of open problem reports and fix problems shown by the bulk builds.

07 Sep 2005 - NetBSD 2.1 RC3 available (top)

The NetBSD Release Engineering team has announced that the release process of NetBSD 2.1 has begun. NetBSD 2.1 RC3 builds are available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-1-RC3. NetBSD 2.1 RC1 and RC2 were not announced publicly because of build problems on some supported platforms.

For more information see Jeff Rizzo's email to the netbsd-announce mailing list.

August 2005

31 Aug 2005 - pkgsrc will be part of DragonFly (top)

Matthew Dillon, DragonFlyBSD founder and chief developer, announced that pkgsrc will be the official packaging system in DragonFlyBSD starting with the next release, scheduled for December 2005.

23 Aug 2005 - New timelines for upcoming releases (top)

Matthias Scheler of the NetBSD Release Engineering team announced an update to the prospective timeframes for upcoming NetBSD releases. NetBSD 3.0 is planned for an October 2005 release; NetBSD 2.1 for the middle of September 2005. As usual, these dates are of course subject to change.

For more information, read the announcement in the mailing list archives and see the release engineering websites for the NetBSD 2 and NetBSD 3 branches.

11 Aug 2005 - NetBSD ported to working toaster (top)

It has long been regarded that the UNIX-like OS NetBSD is portable to every type of machine except perhaps your kitchen toaster. Technologic Systems, however, has conquered this last frontier. Using one of its rugged embedded TS-7200 single-board computers housed inside the empty space of a standard 2 slice toaster, Technologic Systems has designed a functional NetBSD controlled toaster.

03 Aug 2005 - New NetBSD Core Team (top)

The NetBSD core team has been working together for two years in its present form, and, such are the stresses of the job, some changes have become necessary. We'd like to thank the members of the core team who have spent a lot of time and effort looking after the technical direction of the NetBSD project, and steering it to where it is today.

Please see Alistair G. Crooks's email to for more information.

The new NetBSD Core Team is listed at the corresponding group page.

01 Aug 2005 - New Developers (top)

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

July 2005

19 Jul 2005 - Call for donations -- status (top)

The NetBSD project would like to thank all contributors for their generous response to the recent call for donations. In only one month, almost US $27K was donated allowing the NetBSD Foundation to purchase five new machines; three of those machines will be added to the nightly build infrastructure and two of those machines will become anonymous cvs servers.

For more information, including the detailed specifications of the hardware purchased, please see Christos Zoulas email to the netbsd-announce mailing list.

If you would like to join the number of donors and make a donation (tax-deductible in the US) using your credit card or PayPal account, please click on one of the buttons below or contact to make other arrangements.

12 Jul 2005 - Second Quarterly Status Report in 2005 published (top)

Jan Schaumann published the NetBSD Foundation's second quarterly status report in 2005, covering the months April through June of 2005. Among many other things, this status report covers NetBSD's participation in Google's “Summer of Code”, the new stable pkgsrc branch and various port-specific items. It is available online at http://www.NetBSD.org/Foundation/reports/2005Q2.html.

08 Jul 2005 - New Security Note released (top)

The NetBSD Security Note 20050708-1 regarding to the recent zlib buffer overflow has been released. The zlib in the NetBSD base system is not vulnerable, but pkgsrc had a vulnerable version.

01 Jul 2005 - New Developers (top)

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

01 Jul 2005 - pf from OpenBSD 3.7 updated on -current (top)

Peter Postma updated pf(4) from OpenBSD 3.7 adding new features and bugfixes. For a list of changes see his email to -current users mailing list.

If you notice any problem please use the send-pr(1) tool to send a problem report.

01 Jul 2005 - Two New Security Advisories released (top)

NetBSD Security Advisories SA2005-001 concerning to HyperThreaded CPUs and SA2005-002 concerning to a local DoS via audio device have been released. More details, including information on solutions and workarounds, are located in each individual security advisory.

More information on previous Security Advisories is available in the NetBSD Security pages.

June 2005

26 Jun 2005 - Announcing NetBSD and the Google “Summer of Code” Projects (top)

When Google announced the “Summer of Code”, its program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development, the NetBSD Project understood the value of this project and entered as a mentoring organization. Over a period of two weeks, students researched the list of possible projects and discussed their proposals on the public mailing lists and in private with developers and other users alike. After evaluating over 100 distinct applications, the NetBSD Foundation is now pleased to announce the list of projects that have been chosen. See the associated press release for all the details.

12 Jun 2005 - Help NetBSD help you! (top)

In the past, NetBSD has been hesitant to appeal directly to its users for financial support. However, we have relied for too long on the generosity of a small number of regular donors. We can greatly improve the services we provide to all NetBSD users with your financial help. Please see Thor Lancelot Simon's call for donations for more details. You can make a direct donation using your credit card or PayPal account (click on the button below) or contact to make other arrangements. Donations are tax-deductible in the Unites States. Many thanks in advance!

02 Jun 2005 - pkgsrc will freeze for pkgsrc-2005Q2 (top)

Alistair G. Crooks announced yesterday that the NetBSD Packages Team will freeze the development of new features for pkgsrc to prepare for the release of the next stable branch pkgsrc-2005Q2. The freeze period will begin on June 6th 2005 and is expected to last two weeks at the most. During this time, the developers will bring down the PR count and fix problems shown by the bulk builds.

02 Jun 2005 - Summer of Code (top)

The NetBSD Project is pleased to participate in Google's Summer of Code as a mentoring organization. A list of possible projects is available from this page. If you are interested in any of these projects or have other suggestions, please contact Jan Schaumann or post to the relevant lists suggested on the projects page.

01 Jun 2005 - New Developer (top)

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

May 2005

31 May 2005 - Downtime for ftp.fi.NetBSD.org (top)

Due to a relocation of the server hardware, ftp.fi.NetBSD.org will be down on June 1st, 2005, and possibly on June 2nd, 2005, depending on how well the move goes. Hosting for ftp.fi.NetBSD.org is kindly provided by the Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET).

29 May 2005 - pkgsrcCon 2005 presentations online (top)

Most of the presentations given at this year's pkgsrcCon are now available online.

25 May 2005 - Remote User Access VPN Documentation (top)

Emmanuel Dreyfus recently added detailed documentation on how to set up a Remote User Access VPN under NetBSD.

21 May 2005 - AnonCVS outage (top)

The anonymous CVS server will be unavailable for much of May 21 2005, while we rework and simplify its configuration. Among other less immediately obvious benefits we hope this will allow us to begin offering anonymous CVS access over IPv6.

09 May 2005 - Sun Hardware Donation for pkgsrc work (top)

The NetBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the generous donation of two machines from Sun Microsystems for the purpose of advancing the development of The NetBSD Packages Collection under Solaris.

“Sun is looking forward to working with the NetBSD Project, and certainly wants to support the pkgsrc efforts,” commented Alan DuBoff, a member of Solaris Engineering at Sun.

For more information, read the press release here.

09 May 2005 - Changes to the Packages Collection in March 2005 (top)

At the end of March 2005, there were 5377 packages in the Packages Collection. Please read Alistair G. Crooks' email in the mailing list archives to read about the changes to the Packages Collection in March 2005, including notable additions, notable updates, and choosing the Package of the Month.

02 May 2005 - Prospective timelines for upcoming releases (top)

The release engineers announced the prospective timeframes for upcoming NetBSD releases. NetBSD 3.0 is planned for a late July 2005 release; NetBSD 2.1 planned for a late June 2005 release; and NetBSD 1.6.3 is planned for an August or September 2005 release.

For more information, read the announcement in the mailing list archives.

When 2.1 is released, netbsd-2-0 will be shutdown. Possibly a 2.0.3 update may be done before then.

02 May 2005 - Daily builds available for public again (top)

James Chacon announced that the regular daily builds for NetBSD have begun again and are available for public consumption at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/. See the announcement in the netbsd-announce mailing list archives for more information.

02 May 2005 - Software maintenance for cvsweb.NetBSD.org (top)

This week, cvsweb.NetBSD.org (pigu.iri.co.jp) will be down at times for software maintenance. You are welcome to use one of the cvsweb mirrors during the outage.

This also affects the Japanese mailing lists (@jp.NetBSD.org) and the following Japanese mirror services

01 May 2005 - New Developers (top)

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

April 2005

28 Apr 2005 - Belgian NetBSD mirrors out of service (updated) (top)

Due to hardware failure, the following mirror servers

are unavailable at the moment.

As it is not clear at this time how long the downtime will be, please use one of the nearby European mirrors.

Note

Since 2005-05-09 the Belgian mirrors are online again.

14 Apr 2005 - NetBSD 2.0.2 released (top)

James Chacon has announced that update 2.0.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 2.0.2 is the second security/critical update of the NetBSD 2.0 release branch. This represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons. More details are available in the NetBSD 2.0.2 Release Announcement.

08 Apr 2005 - First Quarterly Status Report in 2005 published (top)

Jan Schaumann published the NetBSD Foundation's first quarterly status report in 2005, covering the months January through March of 2005. Among many other things, this status report covers the addition of TCP/SACK and PAM support, the opening of the Foundations Online Store, the new stable pkgsrc branch and various port-specific items. It is available online at http://www.NetBSD.org/Foundation/reports/2005Q1.html.

06 Apr 2005 - Binary packages for 2005Q1 available (top)

Hubert Feyrer has uploaded a total of about 10GB of binary packages built for NetBSD 2.0/i386 and NetBSD 1.6.2/i386 from the pkgsrc-2005Q1 branch to ftp.NetBSD.org. To install the binaries, set your PKG_PATH for pkg_add as follows:

Some of the highlights:

Updated 2005-04-09: Jan Schaumann uploaded binary packages for NetBSD-2.0/amd64 and IRIX64-6.5, and Manuel Bouyer uploaded binary packages for NetBSD-2.0/sparc, all including PGP signed checksum files to:

04 Apr 2005 - ipsec-tools included with NetBSD (top)

Emmanuel Dreyfus has been working on integrating NAT Traversal and recently replaced the KAME based racoon in NetBSD with the feature-enhanced “ipsec-tools” version. NetBSD can now be setup to replace Cisco 3000 VPN concentrators, while Cisco VPN clients can still be used, talking to NetBSD instead.

Many more changes come with the ipsec-tools, including dead peer detection, privilege separation, IKE mode config, IKE and ESP fragmentation, configurable path to certificate authority, and hook scripts. See Emmanuel Dreyfus' mail in the current-users mailing list archives for a more complete list.

04 Apr 2005 - IP Filter upgraded to 4.1.8 on -current (top)

Martti Kuparinen upgraded IPFilter to the latest version (4.1.8) on NetBSD -current. For information about the changes, and recompiling the kernel and the ipf tools see the email in the current-users mailing list archives.

01 Apr 2005 - New Developers (top)

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

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