Published operating system release NetBSD 9.4, which completed the maintenance cycle of the previous significant 9.x branch. NetBSD 9.4 is categorized as a maintenance update and primarily includes fixes for issues and vulnerabilities identified since NetBSD 9.3 was published in August 2022. For those who value new functionality, a significant release of NetBSD 10.0 was recently released. For loading prepared 507 MB installation images available in builds for 57 system architectures and 16 different CPU families.
In addition to bug fixes in NetBSD 9.4, some new features, usually related to hardware support, have been moved from the NetBSD 10 branch. For example, support has been added for new MegaRAID controllers, Ethernet cards on the RTL8168GU chip and 3G modems ZTE MF112 and D-Link DWM222. Support for new AMD (zen3, zen4) and Intel CPUs (Comet Lake, Skylake-X, Cascade Lake) has been expanded. Added support for RAM disks in ZFS and CGD. Improved compatibility with QEMU assemblies for aarch64.
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sshd has stopped generating DSA host keys. IEEE FP .wav support has been added to the audioplay utility, the “-f” option has been added to date, and relative HTTP redirects have been implemented to ftp. Updated versions of openssl 1.1.1t, postfix 3.8.4, openssh 9.6, BIND 9.18.24, nsd 4.8.0 and unbound 1.19.1.
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