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NetBSD: Recent Changes and News

On this page you will find a summary of significant changes to NetBSD. For those interested in every change to the source tree, there is no substitute for subscribing to the source-changes mailing list. Significant news related to the NetBSD Project is also included here. Changes to pkgsrc are also listed here. All of this information is also available in rss/xml format.



01 Jan 2012 - New Developer in December 2011 (top)

The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:

  • Adrian Steinmann (login: ast), who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, kernel and tracking FreeBSD development.


04 Feb 2012 - Hackathon 16 (top)

The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February 12th. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.

Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net). Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs to be done. See the Hackathon wiki page for more details.