May 26, 2012 posted by Jeff Rizzo

On behalf of NetBSD developers, I'm happy to announce the availability of the second (and final) public beta of NetBSD 6.0, for testing.

Binaries of NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 are available for download at:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_BETA2/

ISO images and (for amd64 and i386) images suitable for installing from USB sticks or other hard drives, and torrent files for downloading via BitTorrent are also available, as well as Amazon EC2 machine images and .xva files for use with Citrix XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform.

We are very pleased with the state of NetBSD 6.0_BETA2. With your help, we have made improvements since NetBSD 6.0_BETA. A sampling:

Fixed PR/39444

fixes to hdaudio

fixes to LFS

fixed detaching ehci(4)

PR/41673

PR/44097

Added the ability to configure RAIDframe components on raw disks.

Fixed iwi(4) firmware decoding on bigendian platforms.

more variants supported by mfi(4)

PR/46217

Prevent sshd from consuming all available entropy.

Update pcc to pcc-20120325.

Power management for bthub(4).

PR/45829

PR/46232

PR/46120

PR/46284

Work around some AMD processor errata

Fixed x86k boot problem

PR/45131

PR/46286

PR/46221

PR/46282

PR/46146

Added mpii(4) driver for LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing Interface II SAS controllers.

Many PUFFS fixes

Several OpenSSL fixes

PR/46325

PR/46121

PR/46391

PR/41267

PR/46360

PR/46408

PR/46419

Added tgamma() and tgammaf() to libm

Avoid a tools build error on Cygwin hosts

many fixes for building with clang

switched vax back to gcc 4.1

Added new sysinst post-install config menu

PR/46041

PR/44092

PR/46101

PR/46457

PR/43903

Please continue to report problems and to help us test! We anticipate the first Release Candidate of NetBSD 6.0 in late June/early July.

As always, please help us out by testing these changes and reporting problems either to an appropriate mailing list, via send-pr, or via the web form:

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd Thanks again for your help in making NetBSD 6.0 the best release yet! [ 2 comments