The release of the NetBSD 9.4 operating system has been published, which concludes the support cycle for the previous major branch 9.x. NetBSD 9.4 is categorized as a corrective update and primarily includes fixes for issues and vulnerabilities identified since the release of NetBSD 9.3 in August 2022. For those interested in new features, a significant release of NetBSD 10.0 has recently been made available. Installation images sized at 507 MB are prepared for download, available for 57 system architectures and 16 different CPU families.
In addition to bug fixes in NetBSD 9.4, some new features from branch NetBSD 10 have been ported over, primarily related to hardware support. Support for new MegaRAID controllers, Ethernet cards based on the RTL8168GU chip, and 3G modems such as the ZTE MF112 and D-Link DWM222 has been added. Support for new AMD (zen3, zen4) and Intel (Comet Lake, Skylake-X, Cascade Lake) CPUs has been expanded. Support for RAM disks in ZFS and CGD has been added, and compatibility with QEMU builds for aarch64 has been improved.
The generation of DSA host keys for sshd has been discontinued. The audioplay utility has added support for IEEE FP .wav, the date command now has a '-f' option, and relative HTTP redirects have been implemented in ftp. Versions have been updated for openssl 1.1.1t, postfix 3.8.4, openssh 9.6, BIND 9.18.24, nsd 4.8.0, and unbound 1.19.1.
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