NetBSD 6.0

Already 10 days have passed, and on Habré there wasn’t any news about the latest major release of NetBSD. I think we should correct this omission :)

The new version includes support for thread-local storage (TLS), LVM. The system of disk quotas was rewritten, a new subsystem for managing flash devices and NAND controllers was organized, support for the experimental file system CHFS for flash memory, support for the Multiprotocol Label Switching Protocol (MPLS) were introduced. Also in the new version, the modular kernel is used by default. (it is possible to assemble and use a monolithic core).

The release also included NPF, a new packet filter designed for multi-core systems, which can filter TCP / IP traffic, including stateful inspection and supports NAT.
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Among others:

• SMP support and initial suspend / resume support for Xen domU included. PCI pass-through support for Xen3, as well as the balloon driver, which is used for dynamic memory allocation.
• Improved support for Linux binary executables.
• Strong changes in the MIPS version: added support for SMP and 64-bit processors (O32, N32, N64 ABI), DSP v2 ASE extensions, various NetLogic / RMI processor models, Loongson processors and new SoCs
• Improved support for SMP on PowerPC, Book E Freescale MPC85xx (e500 core) processors are now supported
• Support for the ARM platform has been extended with a Cortex-A8 processor, various new SoCs. Initial support for Raspberry Pi has been announced. Full support is promised with the next version.
• The base system now also includes its own implementation of the standard PGP - NetPGP
• The code of ZFS has been transferred from OpenSolaris, but so far only as an experiment. Does not work
• time_t is now 64-bit in all ports, so that the End of the World in 2037 does not threaten NetBSD

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