NetBSD 7.0 RC2 Released

NetBSD developers announced release of second release candidate for NetBSD 7.0. NetBSD is a free, fast, secure and portable Unix like GNU/Linux distribution that can power a wide range of devices.



According to official release announcement, following are some changes introduced in this release.
  • OpenSSL updated to 1.0.1p
  • BIND updated to 9.10.2-P2
  • IPSEC support is now included by default in Xen kernels
  • Fix several security issues in calendar(1)
  • installboot(8) now supports wedge names
  • Fix a quota panic when using WAPBL (PR 49948)
  • Fix a memory leak in the drm2 code
  • Avoid an X crash on i915 DRMKMS
  • Add a postinstall(8) check to ensure that /etc/man.conf reflects the modern mandoc world (PR 50020)
  • Add a postinstall(8) check to ensure that /etc/fonts/fonts.conf is up to date
  • tset(1): Fix handling of the erase character
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