A very interesting article by vermaden.
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“The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.5 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, armv7, aarch64, powerpc, powerpcspe, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.”
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Changes since NetBSD 10.1
Highlights
- New port to the RISC-V processor architecture. NetBSD 11.0 is the first stable release to include support for 64-bit RISC-V platforms, including a range of StarFive JH71XX-based devices such as the VisionFive 2, PINE64 STAR64, as well as QEMU.
- Enhanced compliance with POSIX.1-2024 and C23 programming interface standards.
- Enhanced support for Linux system calls in compat_linux(8), including epoll (implemented around kqueue), POSIX message queues, statx, readahead, close_range, waitid, renameat2, clone3, sync_file_range, syncfs, and inotify.
- Initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite platform.
- Improvements to the npf(7) firewall, including layer 2 and user/group filtering.
- New MICROVM kernel for x86, supporting both i386 and amd64, NetBSD 11.0 introduces a dedicated MICROVM kernel designed for extremely fast virtual machine boot, leveraging PVH boot, VirtIO MMIO, and multiple kernel optimizations, it can boot in about 10 ms on 2020-era x86 CPUs.
- New virt68k port, for running the Motorola 68000 port in QEMU using paravirtualized devices.
Full Changelog here: https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html
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FreeBSD git weekly for 2026-07-27 — 2026-08-02:
266 commits in total. Highlighted commits:
- rc.subr: Fix premature return from wait_for_pids
- netlink: Add RTA_PREFSRC support
- igbv: Split 82576 and I350 VF registration off igb
- igb: Add SR-IOV PF support for 82576 and I350
- igb(4)/igbv(4): Document SR-IOV PF and VF functionality
- igc: Add VLAN hardware filtering
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New Features:
A new Experiments section has been added to the Preferences screen. This is intended to bring experimental features such as the new editor early to users for testing and feedback. By @Luc-Mcgrady in #5057
Update to fsrs-rs 6.6.1, bringing performance improvements. By @asukaminato0721 in #4956
An experimental rework of the editor by @abdnh in #4029 can be enabled from Preferences>Experiments. The main goal is to make it possible to integrate the editor into mobile clients. May affect addon compatibility.
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“Due to the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up
commits made via the AUR” -
Highlights
- Upload wakelock (web)
- Undo archive (web)
- Filter assets by server filepath (workflows)
- Quick navigate to maintenance page (web)
- Better slideshow button accessibility (web)
- OIDC role claim sync improvements (OAuth)
- Invalidate sessions on password reset (admin-cli)
