operating system release In accordance with for release preparations, NetBSD 8.1 is categorized as a corrective update and mainly includes fixes for issues identified since the publication . A significant release will be NetBSD 9. For download, installation images of 736 MB, available in builds for and 16 different CPU families.
Key :
- A new parameter smtoff has been added to rc.conf to disable SMT/Hyper-Threading;
- DRM/KMS drivers have been improved;
- Added driver for Broadcom FullMAC wireless adapters with PCI and USB interfaces;
- Added driver for LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS Fusion RAID controllers;
- httpd and dhcpcd have been updated (7.2.2).
- Changes have been made to block MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) vulnerabilities in Intel processors has been added;
- data leaks from the kernel;
- fixes and improvements have been made to network device drivers;
- issues with TLS (Thread Local Storage) in PIE mode executables have been resolved;
- Support has been improved for
- issues with regressive performance changes in tmpfs have been resolved.
Source: opennet.ru
