GSoC reports, release policy changes and end of life for 6.x

Following one month after NetBSD 8 release, the NetBSD team announced the end of life for NetBSD 6.x branches. They won’t receive any updates (including security patches) or support anymore. So, it’s time to upgrade if you haven’t done yet…

Release policy was changed as well starting 8.0 release. It will be no “teeny” bugfixes x.x.x (e.g. 6.0.1) branches anymore, only x.x (e.g. 8.0) update releases and they will contain both bug/security fixes as well as enhancements and new features that are deemed to be safe. This way the team expects to have more frequent releases, better long-term support and new features/enhancements to come to binary releases faster. Branches prior 8 are not affected by this policy though.

Last but not the least, Google Summer of Code 2018 coding period is over and you can read all the reports from the students:

GSoC 2018 Reports: Kernel Address Sanitizer, Part 1
GSoC 2018 report: Kernel Address Sanitizer, Part 2
GSoC 2018 Reports: Kernel Address Sanitizer, Part 3

GSoC 2018 Reports: Integrate libFuzzer with the Basesystem, Part 1
GSoC 2018 Reports: Integrate libFuzzer with the Basesystem, Part 2
GSoC 2018 Reports: Integrate libFuzzer with the Basesystem, Part 3

GSoC 2018 Reports: Kernel Undefined Behavior Sanitizer, Part 1

GSoC 2018 Reports: Configuration files versioning in pkgsrc, Part 1
GSoC 2018 Reports: Configuration files versioning in pkgsrc, part 2: remote repositories (git and CVS)
GSoC 2018 Reports: Configuration files versioning in pkgsrc, part 3: remote repositories (SVN and Mercurial)
GSoC 2018 Reports: Configuration files versioning in pkgsrc, part 4: configuration deployment, pkgtools and future improvements