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Announcing NetBSD 5.0.1

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: Subject : Announcing NetBSD 5.0.1

: From : Soren Jacobsen <snj%NetBSD.org@localhost>

: Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 20:48:30 +0000

On behalf of the NetBSD developers, I am pleased to announce that NetBSD 5.0.1 is now available for download. NetBSD 5.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for security or stability reasons. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Please note that due to changes in pkg_install, users upgrading from previous releases are strongly encouraged to run "pkg_admin rebuild" after the upgrade is complete. For full details, please see the release notes at: http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.0.1.html ISO images can be downloaded using BitTorrent, and we encourage users who wish to install via ISO images to take advantage of this, as the images are well seeded. http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/torrents/ Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 5.0.1 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/ We are very grateful to all of those who donated during the 2007 fund drive, which brought us many of the great advances made in the last two years. We would like to remind everyone that we are in the middle of a fund drive with a target of 60,000 USD by the end of the year. For more information on how you can help NetBSD reach this goal, see http://www.NetBSD.org/donations/ The NetBSD Foundation would like to thank all those who have contributed code, hardware, documentation, funds, colocation for our servers, web pages and other documentation, release engineering, and other resources over the years. More information on the people who make NetBSD happen is available at: http://www.NetBSD.org/people/ We would like to especially thank the University of California at Berkeley and the GNU Project for particularly large subsets of code that we use. We would also like to thank the Internet Systems Consortium Inc., the Network Security Lab at Columbia University's Computer Science Department, and Ludd (Luleaa Academic Computer Society) computer society at Luleaa University of Technology for current colocation services.