Today the NetBSD Project announced 8.1 release. It already follows the new release cycle without teeny releases and represents selected changes to improve stability and security plus some new enhancements and features. Main highlights include INTEL-SA-00233 (MDS) mitigation, various kernel data leak fixes, smtoff property to disable SMT explicitly in rc.conf(5), addition of mfii(4) and bwfm(4) drivers, DRM/KMS improvements, performance regression fix in tmpfs, updated dhcpcd(8) and httpd(8), fixes for sh(1), reproducible builds, network drivers, thread local storage (TLS) in position independent executables (PIE). All changes can be found here. Source and binaries can be downloaded from the project CDN or any other mirrors.