NetBSD: Changes and News in 2019
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.
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 7.0 to 8.0 (Updated nightly)
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 6.0 to 7.0 (Updated nightly)
- Changes to pkgsrc
- Security patches
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
- 31 May 2019 - NetBSD 8.1 released
- 20 May 2019 - NetBSD 8.1_RC1 binaries available
- 02 May 2019 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2019-00[2-3]
- 01 May 2019 - New Developer in April 2019
April 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2019
16 Dec 2019 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2019-006
A security advisory was published:
- NetBSD-SA2019-006 Denial of service and possible privilege escallation in filemon
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:
- NetBSD-SA2019-005 Sysctl RNG Key Erasure
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:
- NetBSD-SA2019-004 IPv6 neighbor cache leak on expiration
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:
- NetBSD-SA2019-003 Unprivileged user kernel stack disclosure in SIOCGIFCONF
- NetBSD-SA2019-002 Unprivileged kernel memory overwrite in mq_send(3)
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:
- NetBSD-SA2019-001 Several kernel memory disclosure bugs
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.