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
