The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.0, the fifteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system.

This release brings stability improvements, hundreds of bug fixes, and many new features. Some highlights of the NetBSD 7.0 release are:

• DRM/KMS support brings accelerated graphics to x86 systems using modern Intel and Radeon devices.
• Multiprocessor ARM support.
• Support for many new ARM boards:
  • Raspberry Pi 2
  • ODROID-C1
  • BeagleBoard, BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black
  • MiraBox
  • Allwinner A20, A31: Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, etc.
  • Freescale i.MX50, i.MX51: Kobo Touch, Netwalker
  • Xilinx Zynq: Parallella, ZedBoard
• Major NPF improvements:
  • BPF with just-in-time (JIT) compilation by default.
  • Support for dynamic rules.
  • Support for static (stateless) NAT.
  • Support for IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) as per RFC 6296.
  • Support for CDB based tables (uses perfect hashing and guarantees lock-free O(1) lookups).
• Multiprocessor support in the USB subsystem.
• blacklistd(8), a new daemon that integrates with packet filters to dynamically protect other network daemons such as ssh, named, and ftpd from network break-in attempts.
• Numerous improvements in the handling of disk wedges (see dkctl(8) for information about wedges).
• GPT support in sysinst via the extended partitioning menu.
• Lua kernel scripting.
• epoc32, a new port which supports Psion EPOC PDAs.
• GCC 4.8.4, which brings support for C++11.
• Optional fully BSD-licensed C/C++ runtime env: compiler_rt, libc++, libcxxrt.

For a more complete list of changes in NetBSD 7.0, see the release notes.

Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 7.0 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/.

If NetBSD makes your life better, please consider making a donation to The NetBSD Foundation in order to support the continued development of this fine operating system. As a non-profit organization with no commercial backing, The NetBSD Foundation depends on donations from its users. Your donation helps us fund large development projects, cover operating expenses, and keep the servers alive. For information about donating, visit http://www.NetBSD.org/donations/

In keeping with NetBSD's policy of supporting only the current (7.x) and next most recent (6.x) release majors, the release of NetBSD 7.0 marks the end of life for the 5.x branches. As in the past, a month of overlapping support is being provided in order to ease the migration to newer releases.

On November 9, the following branches will no longer be maintained:

• netbsd-5-2
• netbsd-5-1
• netbsd-5

Furthermore:

• There will be no more pullups to the branches (even for security issues)
• There will be no security advisories made for any of the 5.x releases
• The existing 5.x releases on ftp.NetBSD.org will be moved into /pub/NetBSD-archive/

We hope 7.0 serves you well!