operating system release In accordance with In preparation for releases, NetBSD 8.2 falls into the category of corrective updates and mainly includes fixes for issues identified since the publication of NetBSD 8.1. For those who value new functionality, a significant release has recently been launched. . For downloading Installation images sized at 740 MB, available in builds for and 16 different CPU families.
Key :
- Regression issues manifesting during boot on systems with older x86 CPUs have been resolved;
- Support for framebuffer operation in virtual machines based on Hyper-V Gen.2 has been added;
- Vulnerabilities in httpd have been fixed;
- The ixg driver performance has been improved;
- Support for tftp has been added to the efiboot loader;
- Memory leaks in the kernel have been eliminated;
- The expat package has been updated to version 2.2.8;
- USB issues on Ryzen chips have been resolved, and support for xHCI 3.10 has been added;
- The ability to access the device with the root partition via the label NAME=label has been implemented;
- Support for multiboot 2 has been added to the loader for x86;
- Vulnerability fixed (KNOB attack, allowing interception of encrypted Bluetooth traffic);
- In the nouveau driver, firmware loading issues have been resolved, and the number of supported devices has been limited;
- In the radeon driver, the firmware loading issue with TAHITI VCE has been resolved;
- In named, the use of the dnssec-lookaside option has been discontinued.
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