From root@ihack.net Wed Dec 6 22:29:06 2000 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:00:01 GMT From: Charles M. Hannum To: netbsd-announce@netbsd.org Subject: NetBSD 1.5 released and available for download Announcing NetBSD 1.5 ===================== The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.5 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports thirty-one different system families and twelve different CPU families, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. NetBSD 1.5 continues our long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, major security enhancements (including integration of IPsec, SSH and Kerberos 5), and support for many new platforms and peripherals. Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 1.5 are available for download at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/ and many of our mirror sites. A list of mirror sites is provided at the end of this announcement. About NetBSD ------------ The NetBSD operating system is a full-featured, open source, Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD-Lite2. NetBSD runs on thirty-one different system architectures featuring twelve distinct families of CPUs, and is being ported to more. The NetBSD 1.5 release contains complete binary releases for twenty different machine types. NetBSD is a highly integrated system. In addition to its highly portable, high performance kernel, NetBSD features a complete set of user utilities, compilers for several languages, the X Window System, firewall software and numerous other tools, all accompanied by full source code. We also support third party software (including the KDE and GNOME desktops) through our package system. NetBSD is free. All of the code is under non-restrictive licenses, and may be used without paying royalties to anyone. Free support services are available via our mailing lists and web site. Commercial support is available from a variety of sources; some are listed at: http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/consultants.html More extensive information on NetBSD is available from our web site at: http://www.netbsd.org/ NetBSD is the work of a diverse group of people spread around the world. The `Net' in our name is a tribute to the Internet, which enables us to communicate and share code, and without which the project would not exist. System families supported by NetBSD 1.5 --------------------------------------- The NetBSD 1.5 release provides supported binary distributions for the following systems: * Digital Alpha (64-bit) * Commodore Amiga, MacroSystem DraCo * Machines following the Advanced RISC Computing spec * Acorn RiscPC/A7000, CATS, Digital Shark, EBSA-285, VLSI RC7500 * Atari TT030, Falcon, Hades * Cobalt Networks' Microservers * Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 and 400 series * MIPS based Windows CE PDA machines * i386 family IBM PCs and clones * Apple Macintosh * Apple Power Macintosh and clones (including the G4 cube) * Motorola MVME 68k SBCs * Sony's m68k based "NET WORK STATION" series * NeXT 68k 'black' hardware * PC532 * Digital MIPS-based DECstations and DECsystems * Sun SPARC (32-bit) * Sun UltraSPARC (64-bit) * Sun 3 and 3x * Digital VAX Ports available in source form only for this release include the following: * PowerPC-based Amiga boards * Acorn Archimedes, A-series and R-series systems * Be Inc's BeBox * Evaluation boards with Hitachi Super-H SH3 and SH4 CPUs * OMRON Tateishi Electric's LUNA series * Brains' mmEye Multi Media Server * Sony's MIPS based "NET WORK STATION" series * PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) and CHRP machines * Silicon Graphics' MIPS-based workstations * Sharp X680x0 series Major changes between 1.4 and 1.5 --------------------------------- It is difficult to completely summarize the extensive development between the 1.4 and 1.5 releases. Some highlights include: Kernel * Ports to new platforms including: arc, cobalt, hpcmips, news68k, sgimips, and sparc64. * Improved performance and stability of the UVM virtual memory subsystem. * Implementation of generic kernel locking code, as well as a restructure and re-tuning of the scheduler, to be used by the future symmetric multi-processing (SMP) implementation. * Improved compatibility support for Linux, OSF1, and SVR4 programs. * New compatibility support for Win32 programs. * Support for dynamically loaded ELF kernel modules. * Kernel process tracing using ktruss(1). * Deletion of swap devices using swapctl(8). * Easier hot-swapping of keyboards and mice using a new wscons multiplexing device - wsmux. * Improved PCMCIA and CardBus support, including support for detaching of devices and cards, resulting in better support for notebooks and PDA devices. * Numerous hardware improvements, including areas such as: audio, UDMA/66 support for ATA drives, USB, and wireless networking. Networking * Addition of IP version 6 (IPv6) and IPsec to the networking stack, from the KAME project. This includes addition of kernel code for IPv6/IPsec and conversion of most clients and daemons to support both IPv4 and IPv6 (including RPC and NFS over IPv6). * Integration of TI-RPC, and a more `secure' rpcbind(8) (supporting communication over an authenticated Unix-domain socket, and by default only allowing set and unset requests over that channel). * Integration of OpenSSL, SSH and Heimdal. (More on this under `Security'.) File Systems * Significant performance enhancements to the Berkeley Fast File System, primarily due to integration of Kirk McKusick's soft updates and `trickle sync' code. Several reliability issues were also fixed separately. * Support for the Windows NT `NTFS' file system (read-only at this stage). * Support for revision 1 of the Linux `ext2fs' file system. * Enhanced stability and usability of LFS (the BSD log-structured file system). * Various RAIDframe enhancements including: auto-detection of RAID components and auto-configuration of RAID sets, and the ability to configure the root file system (/) on a RAID set. * Support for Microsoft Joliet extensions to the ISO 9660 CD file system. * Improved file system vnode locking mechanisms, thus resolving a source of several panics in the past. * Support for RPC and NFS over IPv6. * Server part of NFS locking (implemented by rpc.lockd(8)) now works. Security * Strong cryptographic libraries and applications integrated, including the AES cipher Rijndael, the OpenSSL library, more complete Kerberos IV and Kerberos V support (from the Heimdal project), and an SSH server and client. * sysctl(3) interfaces to various elements of process and system information, allowing programs such as ps(1), dmesg(1) and the like to operate without recompilation after kernel upgrades, and removing the necessity to run setgid kmem (thus improving system security). * Disable various services by default, and set the default options for disabled daemons to a higher level of logging. * Several code audits were performed. One audit replaced string routines that were used without bound checking, and another one to identify and disable places where format strings were used in an unsafe way, allowing arbitrary data entered by (possibly) malicious users to overwrite application code, and leading from Denial of Service attacks to compromised system. System administration and user tools * Conversion of the rc(8) system startup and shutdown scripts to an `rc.d' mechanism, with separate control scripts for each service, and appropriate dependency ordering provided by rcorder(8). * postfix(1) provided as alternative mail transport agent to sendmail(8). * User management tools useradd(8), usermod(8), userdel(8), groupadd(8), groupmod(8), and groupdel(8) added to the system. * Incorporation of a login class capability database (/etc/login.conf) from BSD/OS. * Improved support for usernames longer than eight characters in programs such as at(1) and w(1). * Many enhancements to ftpd(8) providing features found in larger and less secure FTP daemons, such as user classes, connection limits, improved support for virtual hosting, transfer statistics, transfer rate throttling, and support for various IETF ftpext working group extensions. * The ftp(1) client has been improved even further, including transfer rate throttling, improved URL support, command line uploads. See the man page for details. Miscellaneous * Transition of i386 and sparc platforms from a.out to the SVR4 ELF executable format. (Other platforms using a.out will be converted in future releases.) * Addition of many SUSv2 features to the curses(3) library, including support for color. * Updates of most third party packages that are shipped in the base system, including file(1), ipfilter(4), ppp(4), sendmail(8), named(8) and dhcpd(8) to the latest stable releases. * Many new packages in the pkgsrc system, including the open source desktops KDE and GNOME, as well as the latest Tcl/Tk, perl and many of the components of the Java Enterprise platform. The package framework itself now has full wildcard dependency support. * Updates to the NetBSD source code style guide (located in /usr/share/misc/style) to use ANSI C only (instead of K&R) and reflect current best practice, and begin migrating the NetBSD source code to follow it. And of course there have also been innumerable bug fixes and other miscellaneous enhancements. Kernel interfaces have continued to be refined, and more subsystems and device drivers are shared among the different ports. You can look for this trend to continue. Acknowledgments --------------- The NetBSD Foundation would like to thank all those who have contributed code, hardware, documentation, funds, colocation for our servers, web pages and other documentation, release engineering, and other resources over the years. More information on contributors is available at: http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/ We would like to especially thank the University of California at Berkeley and the GNU Project for particularly large subsets of code that we use, and the Internet Software Consortium, Redback Networks and the Helsinki University of Technology for current colocation services. Finally, we honor the passing of great pioneers in the fields of networking, operating systems and compression, including W. Richard Stevens, Phil Katz and Mike Muuss. Their contributions have greatly enhanced our lives and made our work possible. About the NetBSD Foundation --------------------------- The NetBSD Foundation was chartered in 1995, with the task of overseeing core NetBSD project services, promoting the project within industry and the open source community, and holding intellectual property rights on much of the NetBSD code base. Day-to-day operations of the project are handled by volunteers. NetBSD mirror sites ------------------- The following are registered NetBSD mirror sites. If you wish to register your site as a NetBSD mirror, contact mirrors@netbsd.org. FTP mirrors Australia * RMIT University, Melbourne ftp://ftp.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ * AARNet Mirror Project, UQ, Brisbane ftp://ftp2.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ Limited to Australian connections Austria * University of Technology, Vienna ftp://ftp.at.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ Finland * The Finnish University and Research Network, Espoo ftp://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ France * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06 ftp://ftp2.fr.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ * BSDfr ftp://ftp.bsdfr.org/pub/NetBSD/ Germany * Gigabell AG, Frankfurt ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ * FilePile ftp://filepile.nacamar.net/pub/NetBSD/ * Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz ftp://ftp.netbsd.uni-mainz.de/pub/NetBSD/ Hungary * ftp.fsn.hu ftp://ftp.hu.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ Japan * Internet Research Institute Inc., Tokyo ftp://ftp.jp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ * Electrotechnical Laboratory ftp://core.ring.gr.jp/pub/NetBSD/ * Dream Train Internet Inc., Tokyo ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/NetBSD/ * Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Otemachi Tokyo. ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/NetBSD/ * Nagoya University of Commerce and Business ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/pub/NetBSD/ * ASAHI Net ftp://ring.asahi-net.or.jp/pub/NetBSD/ Netherlands * University of Amsterdam ftp://ftp.nl.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ Norway * Tromso ftp://ftp2.no.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ * Norwegian University of Science and Technology ftp://ftp.ntnu.no/pub/NetBSD/ Russia * Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka ftp://ftp.ru.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ South Africa * UUNET (SA), Cape Town ftp://ftp.za.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ Sweden * Lulea University of Technology ftp://ftp.se.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ * Swedish University NETwork, Uppsala ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/NetBSD/ UK * PLiG ftp://ftp.uk.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ * SunSite ftp://sunsite.org.uk/packages/netbsd/ USA * Silicon Valley, California ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ * SourceForge ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/NetBSD/ * University of Minnesota ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/NetBSD/ * University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/NetBSD/ * Iowa State University ftp://ftp.iastate.edu/pub/NetBSD/ * OpNet Inc., Bryn Mawr, PA ftp://ftp.op.net/pub/NetBSD/ * Two Guys Software Foundation ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/pub/NetBSD/ * Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ ftp://netbsd.stevens-tech.edu/pub/NetBSD/ rsync mirrors France * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06 rsync://rsync.fr.netbsd.org/ Japan * Internet Research Institute Inc., Tokyo rsync://rsync.jp.netbsd.org/ USA * Silicon Valley, California rsync://rsync.netbsd.org/ SUP mirrors Australia * RMIT University, Melbourne Instructions: ftp://sup.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup France * Paris University Instructions: similar to sup.netbsd.org, host=sup.fr.netbsd.org * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06 Instructions: similar to sup.netbsd.org, host=sup2.fr.netbsd.org Japan * Internet Research Institute Inc., Tokyo Instructions: ftp://sup.jp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup Norway * Norwegian University of Science and Technology Instructions: /usr/src/share/examples/supfiles/sup.no.netbsd.org USA * Silicon Valley, California Instructions: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup * University of Minnesota Instructions: similar to sup.netbsd.org, host=ftp.cs.umn.edu hostbase=/ftp/ftp/packages/NetBSD AnonCVS mirrors Austria * Vienna University, Department of Statistics and Decision Support Systems, Working Group for Computer Supported Didactics Instructions: for ssh: 'CVSROOT=anoncvs@sunsite.univie.ac.at:/cvsroot; CVS_RSH=ssh'. for pserver: 'CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@sunsite.univie.ac.at:/cvsroot' France * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06 Instructions: for ssh: 'CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.fr.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD-CVS; CVS_RSH=ssh'. for pserver: 'CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.fr.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD-CVS' Japan * Internet Research Institute Inc., Tokyo Instructions: for pserver: 'CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.jp.netbsd.org:/cvs/cvsroot', password: anoncvs. http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/JP/Documentation/anoncvs.html (in Japanese) Norway * Tromso Instructions: http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/Pasta/virtual.html USA * Silicon Valley, California Instructions: for ssh: 'CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot; CVS_RSH=ssh'. for pserver: 'CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot' AFS mirrors Sweden * Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm AFS path: /afs/stacken.kth.se/ftp/pub/NetBSD USA * Iowa State University AFS path: /afs/iastate.edu/public/ftp/pub/netbsd WWW mirrors Australia * RMIT University, Melbourne http://www.au.netbsd.org/ * www2.au.netbsd.org http://www2.au.netbsd.org/ Austria * University of Technology, Vienna http://www.at.netbsd.org/ Czech Republic * instinct.org, Prague http://www.cz.netbsd.org/ Finland * Global Wire Oy, Lappeenranta http://www.fi.netbsd.org/ France * Paris University http://www.fr.netbsd.org/ * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06 http://www2.fr.netbsd.org/ Germany * www.de.netbsd.org http://www.de.netbsd.org/ Japan * Internet Research Institute Inc., Tokyo http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ Luxembourg * Wagener Consulting s.à r.l. http://netbsd.wagener-consulting.lu/ Netherlands * www.nl.netbsd.org http://www.nl.netbsd.org/ Norway * Bergen IT Consult AS http://www.no.netbsd.org/ * Tromso http://www2.no.netbsd.org/ Poland * Lodz http://www.pl.netbsd.org/ USA * Silicon Valley, California http://www.netbsd.org/ CVSweb interfaces Japan * Internet Research Institute Inc., Tokyo http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/ Norway * Tromso http://cvsweb.no.netbsd.org/ -- - Charles M. Hannum President, The NetBSD Foundation