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Announcing NetBSD 7.0

8 October, 2015 by snj@NetBSD.org | netbsd 

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.0, the fifteenth major
release of the NetBSD operating system.

This release brings stability improvements, hundreds of bug fixes, and
many new features.  Some highlights of the NetBSD 7.0 release are:

- DRM/KMS support brings accelerated graphics to x86 systems using
  modern Intel and Radeon devices.
- Multiprocessor ARM support.
- Support for many new ARM boards:
  + Raspberry Pi 2
  + ODROID-C1
  + BeagleBoard, BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black
  + MiraBox
  + Allwinner A20, A31: Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, etc.
  + Freescale i.MX50, i.MX51: Kobo Touch, Netwalker
  + Xilinx Zynq: Parallella, ZedBoard
- Major NPF improvements:
  + BPF with just-in-time (JIT) compilation by default.
  + Support for dynamic rules.
  + Support for static (stateless) NAT.
  + Support for IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) as
    per RFC 6296.
  + Support for CDB based tables (uses perfect hashing and guarantees
    lock-free O(1) lookups).
- Multiprocessor support in the USB subsystem.
- blacklistd(8), a new daemon that integrates with packet filters to
  dynamically protect other network daemons such as ssh, named, and ftpd
  from network break-in attempts.
- Numerous improvements in the handling of disk wedges (see dkctl(8) for
  information about wedges).
- GPT support in sysinst via the extended partitioning menu.
- Lua kernel scripting.
- epoc32, a new port which supports Psion EPOC PDAs.
- GCC 4.8.4, which brings support for C++11.
- Optional fully BSD-licensed C/C++ runtime env: compiler_rt, libc++,
  libcxxrt.

For a more complete list of changes in NetBSD 7.0, see the release notes:

    http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.0.html

Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 7.0 are available for download
at many sites around the world.  A list of download sites providing FTP,
AnonCVS, and other services may be found at:

    http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/

If NetBSD makes your life better, please consider making a donation to The
NetBSD Foundation in order to support the continued development of this
fine operating system.  As a non-profit organization with no commercial
backing, The NetBSD Foundation depends on donations from its users.  Your
donation helps us fund large development projects, cover operating
expenses, and keep the servers alive.  For information about donating,
visit:

    http://www.NetBSD.org/donations/