NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts

NetBSD 10.0-RC5 was released on Wednesday as what is hopefully the last release candidate.

Martin Husemann with the NetBSD project released NetBSD 10.0 RC5 as the likely final step before declaring the v10.0 release. This fifth release candidate has a few security updates and other last minute bug fixes. For NetBSD AMD64 is also a new DRM/KMS subsystem update as one area of potential regressions.

Downloads and more details on NetBSD 10.0 RC5 via NetBSD.org.

NetBSD 10.0 has been in development since 2019 and delivers WireGuard support, many Arm hardware improvements from Apple Silicon to newer Raspberry Pi single board computers, a new Intel Ethernet driver, support for Realtek 2.5 GbE network adapters that are becoming quite common, performance improvements for multi-core systems, automatic swap encryption, and tons of other hardware support improvements for desktop/server/mobile hardware of the past several years as well as numerous performance optimizations. The 10.0 release page has more details on all the big changes of NetBSD 10.