NetBSD 9.1 Released

Following the release of the new version of OpenBSD this week, the NetBSD team also released a major update in the form of NetBSD 9.1.

NetBSD 9.1 contains many improvements, including changes such as:

  • NetBSD 9.1 includes a new default X11 window manager and other desktop improvements
  • Improved touchpad and trackpoint behavior for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops
  • improved frame buffer performance in the console
  • fixes and other improvements related to ZFS file system support. The BSD file system with the LFS journal structure also received stability improvements
  • support for USB security keys in raw mode, which can then be used by applications such as Firefox
  • support for the Xen 4.13 hypervisor, as well as ongoing improvements to the NVMM hypervisor
  • expanded support for hardware random number generators with hardware RNGs on various Arm chips
  • AQ driver now supports Aquantia 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
  • support for parallel disk encryption using NetBSD CGD driver

Source: linux.org.ru