Announcing NetBSD 10.0 (Mar 28, 2024)

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Introduction

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 10.0, the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system.

It represents cumulative improvements to the operating system since NetBSD 9.x was originally branched in 2019.

Upgrade instructions

An existing installation can be upgraded by booting an installation image and selecting the Upgrade option.

If you are using other update methods, update the kernel and modules first, then reboot and update your userspace. You will need to adjust any package repository URL and update all third-party packages. Note also the addition of the new gpufw set, which may need to be installed separately with sysinst(8).

Please take particular note of Changes to system behaviour and compatibility if you are upgrading from an earlier release.

Changes since NetBSD 9.3

Performance and scalability

Benchmarks of NetBSD 10 show huge performance and scalability gains over NetBSD 9.x, especially on multiprocessor and multicore systems, for compute and filesystem-bound applications. Areas of improvement included:

  • Switched the kernel's file path lookup cache to use faster per-directory red-black trees.
  • Improved scheduler performance, including the ability to more appropriately spread load on a mixture of slow and fast cores (e.g. big.LITTLE Arm CPUs).
  • Various optimizations for the machine-independent virtual memory system:
    • Switched to a faster radix tree algorithm for memory page lookups.
    • Improved tracking of clean/dirty pages, speeding up fsync(2) on large files by orders of magnitude.
    • Improved parallelization: rewritten page allocator with awareness of CPU topology, replaced global counters with per-CPU counters, and reduced lock contention.
  • Improved the performance of the select(2) and poll(2) system calls.
  • Improved the performance of tmpfs. Implemented lazy update of atime/mtime.
  • Various optimizations of architecture-dependent x86 and AArch64 code, vastly improved network and I/O throughput on aarch64.
  • Various boot speed improvements.

Security and quality assurance

  • Compatibility with WireGuard®:
    • A new interface, wg(4), provides a VPN tunnel compatible with the WireGuard® specification. The driver is experimental and needs more testing.
    • A userspace implementation using a rump kernel server is also included, see wg-userspace(8)
    • The NetBSD implementation works with WireGuard® implementations used by commercial VPN providers, Android, Linux, and more.
  • Stronger, faster cryptography:
    • Added an implementation of the Adiantum cipher for efficient disk encryption with cgd(4) on systems without AES acceleration.
    • Added support for shared keys to cgdconfig(8), allowing multiple derived subkeys to be used across multiple drives.
    • Switched the default password hashing algorithm to Argon2id, winner of the Password Hashing Competition. The algorithm's hardness automatically scales with system performance. Added support for Argon2id to cgdconfig(8) for use in password-based disk encryption.
    • The kernel now takes advantage of CPU acceleration and vectorization for common cryptographic algorithms on x86 and Arm, including AES and ChaCha. All in-kernel implementations of AES are now constant-time on all architectures.
    • Swap encryption is now automatic using the vm.swap_encrypt=1 sysctl(8) variable.
  • Support for new Armv8-A security features:
    • Privileged Access Never - helps prevent inadvertent userspace memory access by the kernel.
    • Pointer Authentication - helps defend against return-oriented programming attacks on buffer overrun.
    • Branch Target Identification - limits the locations to which branch instructions can jump.
  • More sanitizers, testing capabilities, and quality assurance:
    • Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer - detects race conditions in the kernel at runtime.
    • Kernel Memory Sanitizer - detects uninitialized memory in the kernel at runtime.
    • A new virtual USB host driver (vHCI) allows fuzzing and detecting bugs in USB drivers from userspace, even if the hardware is unavailable to developers.
    • More than 2000 new test cases were added.
    • Completed various kernel-wide audits of internal API usage: membar_ops(3), autoconf(9), device detach...
    • Added restrictions on hardlink creation to secmodel_extensions(9).

Hardware support

  • Improved support for Arm:
    • Allwinner V3s SoC support, found in e.g. the Lichee Pi Zero.
    • Amlogic G12 SoC support, found in e.g. the ODROID-N2+.
    • Apple M1 SoC support, e.g. the M1 Mac Mini.
    • NXP i.MX 8M SoC support, found in e.g. the HummingBoard Pulse.
    • NXP i.MX 6SoloX SoC support, found in e.g. the UDOO Neo Full.
    • Raspberry Pi 4 support. Boot NetBSD from USB with EDK II UEFI firmware installed to the SD card, or copy EDK II to the /boot partition.
    • Rockchip RK356X support, found in e.g. the PINE64 Quartz64 (with EDK II UEFI firmware installed).
    • Rockchip RK3588 support, found in e.g. the Orange Pi 5 (with EDK II UEFI firmware installed)
    • Rockchip RK3288 support, found in e.g. the Asus Tinker Board.
    • Added support for booting the Raspberry Pi 0-3 in big endian mode.
    • Added support for ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control, used for CPU performance adjustment on ServerReady hardware.
    • Added support for compat_linux(8) on AArch64, making it possible to run Linux userspace programs when the compat_linux module is enabled in /etc/modules.conf.
    • Added support for spiflash on Rockchip RK3328.
    • Moved support for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 into the GENERIC evbarm kernel (based on FDTs).
    • Enabled the rkv1crypto driver on the PINE64 Rock64 and NanoPi R2S.
    • UEFI bootloader improvements: support for other-endian FFS file systems, booting from raid(4) volumes, ISO9660 (.iso file system) support, boot.cfg support, gop command for changing the video mode, loading kernel modules directly from the bootloader.
  • New drivers:
    • aht20temp(4) - a driver for Aosong AHT20 temperature and humidity sensors.
    • eqos(4) - a driver for DesignWare Ethernet Quality-of-Service controllers.
    • genet - a driver for Broadcom GENETv5 Ethernet controllers, found on the Raspberry Pi 4.
    • ixl(4) - a driver for Intel Ethernet 700 series 10/25/40 Gigabit Ethernet adapters.
    • iavf(4) - a driver for Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Functions.
    • mcommphy(4) - a driver for Motorcomm YT8511C / YT8511H Gigabit Ethernet transceivers.
    • mos(4) - a driver for MosChip MCS7730/7830/7832 USB Ethernet devices.
    • nct(4) - a driver for Nuvoton NCT5104D GPIO controllers, found on PC Engines APU systems.
    • pcf8574 - a GPIO driver used for LEDs and indicators on some SPARC64 hardware.
    • qat(4) - a driver for Intel QuickAssist cryptographic accelerators.
    • rge(4) - a driver for Realtek 8125 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet adapters.
    • scmd(4) - a driver for Sparkfun Serial Controlled Motors.
    • sgp40mox(4) - a driver for Sensirion SGP40 MOx gas sensors.
    • sht3xtemp(4) - a driver for Sensirion SHT30/SHT31/SHT35 humidity/temperature sensors.
    • sht4xtemp(4) - a driver for Sensirion SHT40/SHT41/SHT45 humidity/temperature sensors.
    • uintuos(4) - a driver for Wacom Intuos drawing tablet pens.
    • wwanc(4) - a driver for Intel XMM7360 LTE modems.
  • Improved drivers:
    • Synced the GPU drivers in the kernel with Linux 5.6, bringing lots of new hardware support for accelerated graphics, for Intel (via i915), Nvidia (via nouveau), and AMD (via amdgpu and radeon) graphics processors.
    • acpi(4) - added /dev/acpi. a character device for accessing ACPI tables. acpidump(8) no longer requires options INSECURE.
    • amdsmn, amdzentemp - added support for AMD Family 17h/Axh, 17h/6xh, 19h/6xh, 19h/7xh.
    • aq(4) - added hardware TCP/UDP RX checksum offloading for Aquantia 2.5/5/10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and support for the Marvell AQC113 10G adapter.
    • bge(4) - removed requirement of big kernel lock (support for NET_MPSAFE kernel option for Broadcom 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet interfaces).
    • ciss(4) - added support for PERFORMANT mode and MSI/MSI-X on supported HP Smart Array RAID controllers.
    • ichsmb(4) - added support for Intel 700 series, Alder Lake-N, and Snow Ridge devices.
    • itesio(4) - added support for IT8625E sensors.
    • ixv(4) - added support for mailbox API version 1.5, used on vmware ESXi.
    • mcx(4) - added hardware checksum offloading, hardware VLAN tagging, and support for multiple receive queues for Mellanox ConnectX multi-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
    • onewire(4), owtemp(4) - reduced CPU overhead, improved reliability.
    • pci(4) - added support for Enhanced Allocations, as seen in Cavium ThunderX based boards.
    • pci(4) - added more PCIe 5.x decoding support.
    • pms(4) - many improvements to Synaptics trackpad support.
    • tty(4) - removed use of the "big kernel lock" from the console tty, improving responsiveness on multi-core systems.
    • u3g(4) - added support for ZTE MF112 and D-Link DWM222 3G USB modems.
    • udl(4) - improve performance when refreshing mostly static USB displays.
    • urndis(4) - added device quirks for the OnePlus 5T.
    • urtwn(4) - added support for the TRENDnet TEW-648UBM Micro Wireless USB Adapter.
    • wm(4) - added support for Intel Tiger Lake and newer devices (I219V 15-V9 and LM 16-19).
    • xhci(4) - added initial support for isochronous pipes (works with e.g. USB 3.x webcams)
  • Improved support for MIPS:
    • A bootable image, octeon.img.gz. is now provided for Cavium OCTEON MIPS64 boards, such as the Ubiquiti ERLite-3. The ERLITE kernel configuration was renamed to OCTEON.
    • Added support for ofctl(8) and /dev/openfirm. enabled on Cavium Octeon cores.
    • Added flattened device tree, USB 3, CPU core support on Cavium Octeon.
    • Added support for kernel modules.
    • Ported dtrace(1) and the crash(8) kernel debugger.
    • Increased the maximum text size for binaries from 64MB to 128MB for O32.
  • Improved support for vintage hardware:
    • alpha: Many performance and MP stability improvements. Enabled multiprocessor support by default in GENERIC kernels.
    • amiga: Support for Kickstart 3.2 (the release from 2020).
    • amiga: loadbsd bootloader now loads the kernel into the highest priority memory segment instead of the largest segment.
    • atari: Added box drawing character support to the ite(4) framebuffer driver.
    • evbppc: Added support for the DHT Walnut 405GP board.
    • evbppc: Added support for the Nintendo Wii.
    • hp300: Implemented bitmap operations support for the EVRX framebuffer on the HP9000/425e.
    • hp300: Added support for multiple rd(4) disks on all punits for HPDisk.
    • hppa: Enabled support for kernel modules in GENERIC.
    • luna68k: Added support for keyboard LED and buzzer controls via wskbd(4).
    • luna68k: Added psgpam(4) driver for the YM2149 PSG/SSG sound chip.
    • luna68k: Improved framebuffer graphics and text console performance.
    • macppc: Improved iMac G5 compatibility: added support for the GeForce framebuffer, and CPU temperature and fan sensors.
    • mac68k: Added support for synchronous transfer to the esp(4) SCSI driver on Quadra/Centris AV models.
    • next68k: Many fixes to get the port working again.
    • sparc: wsdisplay(4) performance improvements.
    • sparc64: Added environment monitoring for the Sun Enterprise 250.
    • x68k: Added Emulate3Buttons support to the monolithic X server.
    • x68k: Added box drawing character support to the ite(4) framebuffer driver.
    • vax: Ported the gpx(4) and smg(4) framebuffer drivers for the VAXstation 3100 from old versions of OpenBSD.
    • vax: Support booting on machines with as little as 8MB and as high as 512MB RAM.

Virtualization improvements

  • Many improvements to Xen support:
    • Added support for Xen PVH.
    • Added support for Xen PV drivers under HVM guests.
    • Added support for jumbo frames and feature-sg to paravirtualized network interfaces.
    • Dom0 kernels now have multiprocessor support enabled.
    • Xen kernels now use the same kernel modules as native kernels.
    • Paravirtualized network devices (xennet(4)), block devices (xbd(4)) are now MPSAFE and can take advantage of kernel paralellization.
  • Many improvements to HyperV support:
    • Added support for multichannel in vmbus and hvn(4).
    • Added support for changing MTU and TX aggregation in hvn(4).
    • Improved VLAN and IP checksum offloading support.
  • VirtIO driver enhancements:
    • Added support for VirtIO 1.0 to the virtio(4) drivers, which previously supported version 0.9.
    • New vio9p(4) driver allows mounting VirtIO 9P filesystems exported by the VM host.
    • New viocon(4) serial driver.
  • NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor (nvmm(4)) improvements:
    • Allow the host to suspend and resume while a virtual machine is running.
    • Added support for REP CMPS x86 instructions.
  • Added support for QEMU's virtual "mipssim" machine to NetBSD/evbmips, including extensions for virtio(4).
  • Added support for running NetBSD/alpha in QEMU.
  • Added support for VMware ESXi-Arm and Oracle Cloud to NetBSD/aarch64.

Features and general improvements

  • Networking stack improvements:
    • Implemented RFC 7048 in the kernel's network stack, relaxing rules for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery retransmissions. IPv6 Neighbor Detection is now address agnostic and is used by ARP.
    • ipsec(4) - added net.key.allow_different_idtype sysctl(7) option to improve interconnectivity with some VPN appliances.
    • lagg(4) - new scalable link aggregation and link failover interface, replaces agr(4).
    • vether(4) - new virtual Ethernet interface with configurable address for use as a bridge(4) endpoint, replaces tap(4) in some scenarios.
  • File system and storage improvements:
    • Added support for POSIX.1e access control lists to FFS via extended attributes (from FreeBSD). A new file system type, FFSv2ea has been introduced for this purpose. Users can use fsck_ffs(8) to upgrade a file system to support extended attributes. For compatibility with previous releases, FFSv2ea is not yet the default.
    • Various UDF changes to enable bug-compatibility with UDF file systems on Windows 10.
    • fstat(1) - added basic ZFS support.
    • refuse(3) - now supports all FUSE API variants from FUSE 1.1 to FUSE 3.10.
    • raid(4) - added support for swapped-endian configurations.
    • blkdiscard(8) - new front end for fdiscard(2) to manually TRIM a disk.
    • raidctl(8) - added -t option to test the validity of config files.
    • newfs_udf(8) - added support for formatting of UDF 2.50 with a metadata partition.
    • scan_ffs(8) - added SIGINFO support, to display the status of the scan when Ctrl+T is pressed.
  • New userspace programs:
    • aiomixer(1) - curses(3)-based console audio mixer.
    • realpath(1) - prints absolute paths from relative paths, including resolving symbolic links.
    • tradcpp(1) - K&R style C macro processor, for programs in base that use C preprocessor macros in their configuration files but should still work without a C compiler installed.
    • ioctlprint(1) - prints descriptive ioctl values.
    • testpat(6) - display a color test pattern.
    • warp(6) - classic BSD space war game (copyright donated to the NetBSD Foundation by Larry Wall).
    • fsck_udf(8) - new command for repairing damage to Universal Disk Format file systems, making UDF a suitable reliable read-write choice for cross-system shared disks.
  • Improvements to userspace programs:
    • audioplay(1) - added ability to decode 64-bit and 32-bit IEEE floating point RIFF WAVE files.
    • date(1) - added -f option to set the time.
    • date(1) - added -R option for displaying time in RFC 5322 format, similar to GNU date.
    • df(1) - added -b (output unit: blocks; 512), -H (-h using SI units), -N (suppress the header line), and -f (show only free space) options.
    • env(1) - added -u flag to remove an environment variable, and -0 to allow variable input separated by NUL characters.
    • ftp(1) - added SSL/TLS certificate verification.
    • ftp(1) - follow redirects to relative HTTP URLs.
    • ftp(1) - add timeout for SSL connection setup, using -q QUITTIME. defaulting to 60 seconds.
    • grep(1) - with -r and no file argument, search the current directory.
    • indent(1) - support for newer standard C syntax.
    • ldd(1) - added a -v option to increase verbosity and show all executable processing errors.
    • make(1) - added a randomize-targets option to aid in debugging
    • make(1) - added a .break keyword to terminate .for loops early.
    • mv(1) - added a '-h' option to atomically replace a symlink to a directory.
    • netstat(1) - added various new packet counters.
    • nbperf(1) - various optimizations; reduced memory footprint by 30%.
    • patch(1) - added support for patching files with excessively long lines.
    • pgrep(1) - added -q flag to silence output, like in grep(1).
    • pmap(1) - added -t flag to print the pmap as the underlying RB tree.
    • ps(1) - added -G flag to take a single group argument, as required by POSIX.2.
    • rcp(1) - added SIGINFO (ctrl+t status) support.
    • sh(1), ksh(1), csh(1) - added jobs -Z to set the process title, as in zsh.
    • sh(1) - added command auto-completion.
    • sh(1) - added -l option to force the creation of a login shell.
    • sh(1) - added -d '' option to the read command to accompany find -print0 and xargs -0 for compatibility with upcoming POSIX releases.
    • script(1) - added proper playback of curses(3) sessions.
    • vacation(1) - check 'Auto-Submitted:' (RFC 3834) mail header in addition to 'Precedence:' (RFC 2076), and set 'Precedence:' in addition to 'Auto-Submitted:'.
    • vmstat(1) - added fast sysctl(7)-based kernel hash statistics generation
    • worms(6) - added more types of worms, -C to use colour, -S option to set the random number generator seed,
    • cgdconfig(8) - added -T option to print all generated keys.
    • crash(8) - added PowerPC and MIPS support.
    • httpd(8) - added blocklistd(8) support.
    • httpd(8) - added a -q flag to disable log messages.
    • inetd(8) - added a -f flag to run in the foreground.
    • iostat(8) - added a -z flag to suppress output of inactive devices.
    • sysinst(8) - added support for configuring Wi-Fi devices.
    • sysinst(8) - automatically configure lookups of .local domains in nsswitch.conf(5) when Multicast DNS is enabled.
    • tprof(8) - added top subcommand to display hardware profiling results in real-time.
    • tprof(8) - added count subcommand to output raw performance event counters.
    • tprof(8) - added support for profiling AMD family 19h (Zen 3 and Zen 4), Intel Comet Lake.
    • wsfontload(8) - added a -l flag to list all loaded and built-in fonts.
    • wsfontload(8) - support for a new font format with embedded metadata.
    • wsmoused(8) - added support for absolute mouse position events, e.g. touchscreens.
  • New and extended APIs:
    • eventfd(2), timerfd(2) - new native system calls compatible with Linux, also used in compat_linux(8)
    • fexecve(2) - new system call for executing a file from a file descriptor, conforming to The Open Group Extended API Set 2.
    • kqueue(2) - added EVFILT_USER for user-established events.
    • ppoll(2) - an alias of the native system call pollts for compatibility with other operating systems.
    • curses(3) - added stub mouse functions and curses_version() for compatibility with ncurses.
    • curses(3) - improved Unicode support.
    • fetch(3) - enable Server Name Indication for TLS connections.
    • getentropy(3) - new libc function for getting random data from the kernel similarly to KERN_ARND. compatible with various other OSes.
    • math(3) - added definitions for more long double functions.
    • ossaudio(3) - added an implementation of the OSSv4 mixer API.
    • hosts_access(3) - added blocklistd(8) support, enabling all programs using libwrap to block access from denied hosts.
    • regex(3) - added native language support, and support for GNU extensions (off by default; from FreeBSD).
  • Miscellaneous improvements:
    • Added BSD-licensed Spleen bitmap fonts for low and high-DPI displays to the X11 sets and /usr/share/wscons/fonts. made them the default for ctwm(1).
    • Added Terminus console fonts to /usr/share/wscons/fonts.
    • wskbd(4) - added definitions for French BÉPO and German Neo 2 layouts.
    • wsmouse(4) - added "precision scrolling" event types compatible with OpenBSD and use them in touchpad drivers and Xorg(1).
    • compat_linux(8) - added eventfd. timerfd. POSIX timers, preadv. and pwritev.

Changes to system behaviour and compatibility

  • Networking setups using tap(4) as a bridge(4) endpoint must be updated to use vether(4) instead, as tap(4)'s link state is now based on whether it has been opened by an application.
  • For security reasons, compat_linux(8) is now disabled by default. To load it at boot time, add compat_linux to /etc/modules.conf.
  • The default package database for new installations was changed to /usr/pkg/pkgdb for consistency with other pkgsrc platforms, replacing /var/db/pkg.
  • Many systems that would have been fine previously may now print warnings about **not enough entropy** to the kernel message buffer. This is because now only vetted hardware sources count towards the kernel's entropy estimation. See entropy(7).
  • IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) devices now require SSID configuration in order to associate with an open access point.
  • blacklistd(8), a daemon that can block and release ports on demand to avoid DoS abuse, was renamed to blocklistd(8).
  • Changed the default shell of the toor user to /rescue/sh to ensure that a user with a statically linked shell exists on the default install, in case of trouble.
  • Xorg now determines the default keyboard layout based on wscons configuration instead of /etc/xorg.conf. To override the default, use setxkbmap(1).
  • Disabled automatic unloading of kernel modules - kernel modules must now opt-in to automatic unloading.
  • Combined the midi and sequencer kernel modules into a single midi_seq module.
  • arm: ROCKPro64 ld(4) disk device ordering was changed due to the addition of sdio devices.
  • arm: Switched to XZ-compressed sets for AArch64 (please update your scripts accordingly).
  • x86: HDMI and DisplayPort audio were enabled in the GENERIC kernel config. Users may have to change the default audio device with audiocfg(1) if they want to continue using non-HDMI/DP audio.
  • crunchgen(1) - various special variable handling flags were removed and replaced with -V.
  • pam(8) - pam_krb5(8) and pam_ksu(8) were disabled by default in /etc/pam.d.
  • kqueue(2) - the udata type was changed from intptr_t to void * for compatibility with other BSDs.
  • curses(3) - changed the default colour pair to 0 in line with other curses implementations.
  • proplib(3) - various API changes and additions. older APIs that have been replaced now produce deprecation warnings.
  • iconv(3) - the input argument was changed to be non-const to match current POSIX, previously being const for compatibility with other standards (e.g. SUSv2).
  • resolver(3) - the default was changed to check-names (see resolv.conf(5)), which means that hostnames that contain invalid characters will not resolve.

Removed obsolete components

Many obsolete components were removed with the aim of making the network stack and kernel more maintainable, and to make future system-wide improvements (e.g. improved SMP) easier. In some cases removed drivers couldn't be tested due to lack of available hardware and interest, or contained serious long-term bugs.

  • Drivers and support for networking technologies largely replaced by Ethernet: HIPPI, FDDI, and TokenRing.
  • Drivers and support for some old evbarm boards (those that required a custom kernel), as part of the move to support every evbarm device with one GENERIC kernel. Hardware dropped includes TI OMAP devices other than the OMAP3530 and AM335x, such as the Gumstix and Hawkboard.
  • In-kernel SMBFS - nsmb(4) and mount_smbfs(8). This did not support modern versions of the SMB protocol, and userspace implementations are more functional.
  • In-kernel IPv6 Router Advertisment handling - now handled in userspace by dhcpcd(8).
  • azalia(4) - a driver which was replaced by hdaudio(4) in past releases.
  • de(4) - a driver which was replaced by tlp(4) in past releases.
  • strip(4) - a driver for Metricom Ricochet packet radios.
  • urio(4) - a driver for Diamond Multimedia Rio500 MP3 players.
  • uscanner(4) - a driver for very old USB scanners, use ugen(4) and SANE instead.
  • uyap(4) - a driver for USB YAP phone firmware loaders.
  • uyurex(4) - a driver for a novelty device made by the art group Maywa-denki in 2008.
  • sup(1) - a client for the CMU Software Upgrade Protocol. It is available in pkgsrc.
  • Support for ISD's non-standard ATA protocol in umass(4), used for accessing storage in early Archos MP3 players.
  • CIRCLEQ from queue(3), it was deprecated since NetBSD 7 due to pointer aliasing violations.
  • Several libraries from the X11 distribution: libXTrap, libXevie, and libglut (while GLUT is still useful with modern X servers, libglut users are recommended to switch to FreeGLUT, which is available in pkgsrc). If necessary, removed libraries can continue to be used by installing compat90 from pkgsrc.

    Third-party components

    Various third-party components included in the NetBSD base system were updated:

    The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES and CHANGES-10.0 files in the top level directory of the NetBSD 10.0 release tree.

    Getting NetBSD 10.0

    Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 10.0 are available for download at many sites around the world. You can download NetBSD 10.0 from our main CDN, or use a mirror site close to you. A list of hashes, signed by the NetBSD Security Officer's PGP key, is available for the NetBSD 10.0 distribution in this file.

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    System families supported by NetBSD 10.0

    The NetBSD 10.0 release provides supported binary distributions for the following systems:

    NetBSD/aarch64 Arm 64-bit
    NetBSD/acorn32 Acorn RiscPC/A7000, VLSI RC7500
    NetBSD/algor Algorithmics, Ltd. MIPS evaluation boards
    NetBSD/alpha Digital/Compaq Alpha (64-bit)
    NetBSD/amd64 AMD family processors like Opteron, Athlon64, and Intel CPUs with EM64T extension
    NetBSD/amiga Commodore Amiga and MacroSystem DraCo
    NetBSD/amigappc PowerPC-based Amiga boards.
    NetBSD/arc MIPS-based machines following the Advanced RISC Computing spec
    NetBSD/atari Atari TT030, Falcon, Hades
    NetBSD/bebox Be Inc's BeBox
    NetBSD/cats Chalice Technology's CATS and Intel's EBSA-285 evaluation boards
    NetBSD/cesfic CES FIC8234 VME processor board
    NetBSD/cobalt Cobalt Networks' MIPS-based Microservers
    NetBSD/dreamcast Sega Dreamcast game console
    NetBSD/emips The Extensible MIPS architecture from Microsoft Research
    NetBSD/epoc32 Psion EPOC PDAs
    NetBSD/evbarm Various Arm-based evaluation boards and appliances
    NetBSD/evbmips Various MIPS-based evaluation boards and appliances
    NetBSD/evbppc Various PowerPC-based evaluation boards and appliances
    NetBSD/evbsh3 Various Hitachi Super-H SH3 and SH4-based evaluation boards and appliances
    NetBSD/ews4800mips NEC's MIPS-based EWS4800 workstation
    NetBSD/hp300 Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 and 400 series
    NetBSD/hpcarm StrongArm based Windows CE PDA machines
    NetBSD/hpcmips MIPS-based Windows CE PDA machines
    NetBSD/hpcsh Hitachi Super-H based Windows CE PDA machines
    NetBSD/hppa Hewlett-Packard 9000 Series 700 workstations
    NetBSD/i386 IBM PCs and PC clones with i486-family processors and up
    NetBSD/ibmnws IBM Network Station 1000
    NetBSD/iyonix Castle Technology's Iyonix Arm based PCs
    NetBSD/landisk SH4 processor based NAS appliances
    NetBSD/luna68k OMRON Tateisi Electric's LUNA series
    NetBSD/mac68k Apple Macintosh with Motorola 68k CPU
    NetBSD/macppc Apple PowerPC-based Macintosh and clones
    NetBSD/mipsco MIPS Computer Systems Inc. family of workstations and servers
    NetBSD/mmeye Brains mmEye multimedia server
    NetBSD/mvme68k Motorola MVME 68k Single Board Computers
    NetBSD/mvmeppc Motorola PowerPC VME Single Board Computers
    NetBSD/netwinder StrongArm based NetWinder machines
    NetBSD/news68k Sony's 68k-based “NET WORK STATION” series
    NetBSD/newsmips Sony's MIPS-based “NET WORK STATION” series
    NetBSD/next68k NeXT 68k “black” hardware
    NetBSD/ofppc OpenFirmware PowerPC machines
    NetBSD/pmax Digital MIPS-based DECstations and DECsystems
    NetBSD/prep PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) and CHRP machines
    NetBSD/rs6000 IBM RS/6000 MCA-based PowerPC machines.
    NetBSD/sandpoint Motorola Sandpoint reference platform, including many PPC-based NAS boxes
    NetBSD/sgimips Silicon Graphics' MIPS-based workstations
    NetBSD/shark Digital DNARD (“shark”)
    NetBSD/sparc Sun SPARC (32-bit) and UltraSPARC (in 32-bit mode)
    NetBSD/sparc64 Sun UltraSPARC (in native 64-bit mode)
    NetBSD/sun2 Sun Microsystems Sun 2 machines with Motorola 68010 CPU
    NetBSD/sun3 Motorola 68020 and 030 based Sun 3 and 3x machines
    NetBSD/vax Digital VAX
    NetBSD/x68k Sharp X680x0 series
    NetBSD/xen The Xen virtual machine monitor
    NetBSD/zaurus Sharp Arm PDAs

    Ports included in the release but not fully supported or functional:

    NetBSD/ia64 Itanium family of processors

    Dedication

    NetBSD 10.0 is dedicated to the memory of Ryo Shimizu, who passed before it could be released.

    ryo@'s contributions to NetBSD, to our community, to ARM and networking (and indeed, to this release) were beyond immense. We are all deeply saddened at the loss of an excellent technical contributor and good friend.

    Acknowledgments

    The NetBSD Foundation would like to thank all those who have contributed code, hardware, documentation, funds, colocation for our servers, web pages and other documentation, release engineering, and other resources over the years. More information on the people who make NetBSD happen is available at:

    www.NetBSD.org/people/

    We would also like to thank the Tasty Lime and the Network Security Lab at Columbia University's Computer Science Department for current colocation services. Thanks to Fastly for providing the CDN services.

    About NetBSD

    NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent for use in both production and research environments, and the source code is freely available under a business-friendly license. NetBSD is developed and supported by a large and vibrant international community. Many applications are readily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection.

    About the NetBSD Foundation

    The NetBSD Foundation was chartered in 1995, with the task of overseeing core NetBSD project services, promoting the project within industry and the open source community, and holding intellectual property rights on much of the NetBSD code base. Day-to-day operations of the project are handled by volunteers.

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