NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing
For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today.
NetBSD 11.0 has been working on 64-bit RISC-V CPU support, initial enablement for Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptop SoCs, better support for Linux system call handling for better emulation support, a new MICROVM kernel option for fast virtual machine booting, better POSIX.1-2024 compliance, and an assortment of other enhancements. Plus plenty of typical package updates are in tow like OpenSSH 10 and GCC 12.5.
It's been over two years since the release of NetBSD 10.0 and with today's 11.0-RC3 release it looks like we are quite close to the official release.
Downloads and more details on today's NetBSD 11.0-RC3 release via NetBSD.org.
NetBSD 11.0 has been working on 64-bit RISC-V CPU support, initial enablement for Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptop SoCs, better support for Linux system call handling for better emulation support, a new MICROVM kernel option for fast virtual machine booting, better POSIX.1-2024 compliance, and an assortment of other enhancements. Plus plenty of typical package updates are in tow like OpenSSH 10 and GCC 12.5.
It's been over two years since the release of NetBSD 10.0 and with today's 11.0-RC3 release it looks like we are quite close to the official release.
"The netbsd-11 release branch is nearly a year old now, so it is high time the 11.0 release makes it to the front stage."
Downloads and more details on today's NetBSD 11.0-RC3 release via NetBSD.org.