NetBSD 11.0 Released

NetBSD 11.0 released!

August 01, 2026 posted by Martin Husemann

The NetBSD task is pleased to (finally) denote the NetBSD 11.0 release!
See the release announcement for details.

Please statement that the various ISO images person been divided into <700MB images for CD-ROM media and full-sized DVD images. If you are not restricted by the size limits of a CD-ROM, make judge to prime the image pinch "-dvd.iso" successful the name. If you are utilizing flash-based media (e.g. a USB drive), please usage the .img files alternatively than the .iso images.

If you want to trial 11.0 please cheque the installation notes for your architecture and download the preferred install image from the CDN. If you are utilizing an ARM based device, get a netbsd-11 image pre-configured pinch U-Boot from the bootable ARM images page.

If you person immoderate issues pinch installation aliases tally into issues pinch the strategy during use, please interaction america connected 1 of the mailing lists aliases record a problem report.

Important statement astir unfastened information issues:

As you are astir apt aware, the number of information issues recovered aliases suspected everyplace has massively accrued pinch the advent of AI tools. As a consequence, we can't people a merchandise without unfastened issues. Instead of delaying the merchandise further to hole them (new ones are being reported each the time), we've alternatively chosen to beryllium transparent astir this.

This merchandise has been rather delayed already, since we've waited for third-party components to make unchangeable releases truthful we tin get the fixes. We person avoided publishing immoderate alteration without making a merchandise campaigner to springiness users clip to trial it. Our merchandise process has been streamlined and automated arsenic acold arsenic possible, but too the clip required to build and make checksums for each platform, manual involution is still required (e.g. information serviceman signing the merchandise hashes). The wide process is still constricted by the slowest measurement - the clip it takes to transportation each record for each architecture complete the network.

The unfastened information related pullup requests (and associated gnats problem reports) are:

• hdaudio(4): Apply entree checks to ioctl commands, PR 60492; missing section personification privilege check, easy manual workaround (remove /dev/hdaudio*; audio will still beryllium functional).
• ipfilter: Fix remotely triggerable null pointer deref, PR 60484; IPF is not included successful immoderate released kernel by default.
• pf: Fix use-after-free successful part reassembly, PR 60485; PF is deprecated and not included successful immoderate released kernel by default.

All the unfastened pullup requests will beryllium committed to the unchangeable branch soon aft the 11.0 release, and go portion of the upcoming 11.1 release. We are presently aiming to merchandise 11.1 wrong the adjacent 2 months.

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