NetBSD 9.0 released, this is the 17th major release. This version on hardware support, quality assurance, safety, significant improvements, and brings some new features, fixes hundreds of bug.
NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable open source UNIX operating system, which is suitable for a variety of platforms, from 64-bit AlphaServers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded systems. It is very clean in design and advanced features, which make it in the industry and academia are legendary. Users can be supported by full source code. Many applications can be easily obtained from NetBSD Packages Collection.
Look at the new features:
- NPF many improvements, including new features, bug fixes, better documentation, and thmap improve performance through new search algorithm. NPF is now enabled by default.
- Updated ZFS. This is the first version of ZFS for everyday use, but does not yet support boot from ZFS or ZFS as a root file system.
- New driver, for example, applicable to wireless devices bwfm Broadcom Full-MAC, suitable for Amazon Elastic Network Adapter and the ena mcx Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN, ConnectX-4 EN, ConnectX-5 EN, ConnectX-6 EN Ethernet adapter driver. Various other drivers added, and the existing driver adds additional hardware to support the variant.
- Redo SATA subsystem now supports a plurality of command transmission (NCQ), and better handling errors reported by the drive.
- Usbnet new framework, which is a common framework USB Ethernet driver.
At the same time, this version improves support for 64-bit ARM processor, introduced kernel ASLR, for NVMM (hardware virtualization) interface changes, as well as bring more highlights, details see announcement: