June 21, 2015 posted by Soren Jacobsen

On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the first release candidate of NetBSD 7.0.

Many changes have been made since 6.0. Here are a few highlights:

Greatly improved support for modern Intel and Radeon graphics hardware through a port of the Linux DRM/KMS code. Most X.Org components have been updated as well.

ARM multiprocessor support

Support for new ARM boards, some of which are listed below:

Raspberry Pi 2



ODROID-C1



BeagleBoard-xM



BeagleBone



BeagleBone Black



Banana Pi



Cubieboard 2



Cubietruck



Merii Hummingbird



Marvell ARMADA XP



GlobalScale MiraBox



Kobo



Sharp Netwalker PC-Z1

GPT support in sysinst

Lua kernel scripting

Multiprocessor USB stack

Many improvements to NPF, the NetBSD packet filter

GCC 4.8.4 (and optionally, LLVM/Clang 3.6.1)

Binaries of NetBSD 7.0_RC1 are available for download at:

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0_RC1/

Those who prefer to build from source can either use the netbsd-7-0-RC1 tag or follow the netbsd-7 branch.

Please help us out by testing 7.0_RC1. We love any and all feedback. Report problems through the usual channels (submit a PR or write to the appropriate list). More general feedback is welcome at releng@NetBSD.org. Your input will help us put the finishing touches on what promises to be a great release!