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By JT Pennington

Episode 257: Great NetBSD 8 | BSD Now 257

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Published August 02, 2018 2:00am

NetBSD 8.0 available, FreeBSD on Scaleway’s ARM64 VPS, encrypted backups with OpenBSD, Dragonfly server storage upgrade, zpool checkpoints, g2k18 hackathon reports, and more.

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NetBSD v8.0 Released

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.0, the sixteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system.

This release brings stability improvements, hundreds of bug fixes, and many new features.

Some highlights of the NetBSD 8.0 release are:

USB stack rework, USB3 support added.

In-kernel audio mixer (audio_system(9)).

Reproducible builds (MKREPRO, see mk.conf(5)).

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