NetBSD 9.5 Arrives as Final Chapter for Long-Running Branch
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NetBSD 9.5 Arrives as Final Chapter for Long-Running Branch
NetBSD 9.5 ships as the final update to the six-year-old 9 series, delivering targeted security fixes and hardware improvements while ending all support for the branch. The project urges users to migrate to NetBSD 11.0 or the upcoming 10.2 release. This marks a deliberate close to an era of broad portability and conservative evolution.
The NetBSD project has released NetBSD 9.5. The new version fixes bugs, expands hardware support and closes several vulnerabilities. At the same time, it terminates the development of the stable NetBSD 9 series. According to the announcement for this development branch, the project will no longer provide any further security updates and recommends users to switch to NetBSD 10 or NetBSD 11. With NetBSD 9.5
NetBSD 9.5 released – OSnews
Speaking of NetBSD, the fifth and final 9x release has been released. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 9.4 in April 2024. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 9.0. This also marks the end-of-support for all NetBSD-9.x releases and the netbsd-9 branch. All users still on this branch are urgently asked to update to a more recent release like NetBSD 11.0 (with 11.…
For the farewell of NetBSD 9.x there are again some security and stability corrections. A change to NetBSD 10 or 11 is expressly recommended.
NetBSD 9.5 comes with Mitigations for the TCP SegmentSmack and ZFS fixes. The version marks the official end of support (EOL) to the 9 series. Learn what changes.
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