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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.
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 5.0 to 6.0 (Updated nightly)
- Significant Source changes from NetBSD 4.0 to 5.0 (Updated nightly)
- Recent packages changes (Updated nightly)
- Security patches
The NetBSD Project's Blog
April 2010
- 26 Apr 2010 - Google Summer of Code Projects Chosen
- 26 Apr 2010 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2010-004 (NX on amd64) and NetBSD-SA2010-005 (NTP daemon)
March 2010
February 2010
- 16 Feb 2010 - Hackathon February 19-22 2010
- 12 Feb 2010 - NetBSD 5.0.2 released
- 02 Feb 2010 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2010-003 azalia(4)/hdaudio(4) negative mixer index panic
- 01 Feb 2010 - New Developers
January 2010
- 13 Jan 2010 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2010-001 (Module autoloading) and NetBSD-SA2010-002 (OpenSSL)
- 01 Jan 2010 - New Developer in December 2009
April 2010
26 Apr 2010 - Google Summer of Code Projects Chosen (top)
Google's Summer of Code project is intended to involve students in Open Source projects, and we are proud that the following projects are selected for this summer:
- Mateusz Kocielski: SASL client library
- Kristaps Dzonsons: Teach PostScript output to mandoc(1)
- Efstathios Kamperis: Audit, unit testing and improvements of the NetBSD math library
- Jordan Gordeev: Remote kernel debugging over Ethernet
- Lourival Vieira: Provide support for dynamic NetBSD kernel extensions using the Lua language - Lunatik/NetBSD
- Zoltan Arnold NAGY: Implementing HTTP support for libsa
Progress will be documented at http://netbsd-soc.sf.net/ eventually. We are looking forward to the progress of the students, and wish them and their mentors a successfull Google Summer of Code 2010!
26 Apr 2010 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2010-004 (NX on amd64) and NetBSD-SA2010-005 (NTP daemon) (top)
Two new security advisories were published:
- NetBSD-SA2010-004 amd64 per-page No-execute (NX) bit disabled
- NetBSD-SA2010-005 NTP server Denial of Service vulnerability
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
March 2010
21 Mar 2010 - NetBSD to participate again in Google's Summer of Code (top)
For the sixth year in a row, the NetBSD Project has been selected as a mentoring organization in Google's Summer of Code. As in previous years, this provides a great opportunity for students to get paid to hack on NetBSD, learn about contributing to a major open source project and to become part of an exciting community.
Students interested in applying should now start to outline their project proposals and initiate contact with possible mentors and the community at large. A list of project suggestions is available here, though students may also wish to review our general projects page.
Our NetBSD Project Application/Proposal HowTo should be a good resource to help students develop their best proposal and the answers to those questions will help us to rank all applications.
01 Mar 2010 - New Developers (top)
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developers:
- Constantine A. Murenin (login: cnst), who will be working on sysmon, envsys and kernel.
- Daniel Horecki (login: morr), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection and pl mirror.
February 2010
16 Feb 2010 - Hackathon February 19-22 2010 (top)
NetBSD community is running the 13th Hackathon February 19-22 2010. All supporters of NetBSD are invited to join the developers on IRC channel #netbsd-code at FreeNode (irc.freenode.net).
Please see the Hackathon page for details and updates: http://wiki.netbsd.se/Hackathon13
12 Feb 2010 - NetBSD 5.0.2 released (top)
The NetBSD release engineering team has announced that the NetBSD 5.0.2 release is now available for download. NetBSD 5.0.2 is the second critical/security update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical for security or stability reasons. All users are encouraged to upgrade. See the NetBSD 5.0.2 Release Announcement for more information.
02 Feb 2010 - New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2010-003 azalia(4)/hdaudio(4) negative mixer index panic (top)
One new security advisory was published:
- NetBSD-SA2010-003 azalia(4)/hdaudio(4) negative mixer index panic
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
01 Feb 2010 - New Developers (top)
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developers:
- Guillaume Lasmayous (login: gls), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection and advocacy (French).
- Nhat Minh Le (login: minh), who will be working on xmltools.
- Yorick Hardy (login: yhardy), who will be working on acpi and drm.
January 2010
13 Jan 2010 - New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2010-001 (Module autoloading) and NetBSD-SA2010-002 (OpenSSL) (top)
Two new security advisories were published:
- NetBSD-SA2010-001 File system module autoloading Denial of Service attack
- NetBSD-SA2010-002 OpenSSL TLS renegotiation man in the middle vulnerability
You can find more information about them on the Security and NetBSD page.
01 Jan 2010 - New Developer in December 2009 (top)
The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:
- Jukka Ruohonen (login: jruoho), who will be working on kernel, device drivers and power management/ACPI.