NetBSD 8.1 release

Available NetBSD 8.1 release.

What's new:

  • Fixed various data leaks from the kernel
  • Added smtoff option to rc.conf to disable SMT/Hyper-Threading
  • Added drivers:
    • bwfm for Broadcom FullMAC PCI and USB equipment
    • mfii for RAID controllers LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS Fusion
  • dhcpcd updated to 7.2.2
  • Updated httpd
  • Fixes and improvements in network device drivers
  • DRM/KMS improvements
  • PIE (Position Independent Executables) fixes for TLS (Thread Local Storage)
  • Various fixes for sh
  • Improvements in support for repeatable builds

Source: linux.org.ru

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