March 15, 2017 posted by Soren Jacobsen

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.

Some highlights of NetBSD 7.1 are:

Support for Raspberry Pi Zero.

Initial DRM/KMS support for NVIDIA graphics cards via nouveau (Disabled by default. Uncomment nouveau and nouveaufb in your kernel config to test).

The addition of vioscsi, a driver for the Google Compute Engine disk.

Linux compatibility improvements, allowing, e.g., the use of Adobe Flash Player 24.

wm(4): C2000 KX and 2.5G support. Wake On Lan support. 82575 and newer SERDES based systems now work.

ODROID-C1 Ethernet now works.

Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements.

For more details, please see the release notes.

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