{"id":218,"date":"2015-03-19T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netbsd.name\/?p=218"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:39:08","slug":"some-quick-news-on-netbsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Some quick news on NetBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My blog is quite silent lately but it doesn&#8217;t mean that nothing happens in NetBSD world.<\/p>\n<p>5.1.5 and 5.2.3 security and bug-fix updates were released in the November last year for 5.1 and 5.2 branches. More information can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/mail-index.netbsd.org\/netbsd-announce\/2014\/11\/21\/msg000226.html\">here<\/a>. If you are using these branches, it is strongly recommended to update to the latest releases. After release of upcoming 7.0 version these branches won&#8217;t be supported anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of news coming about support of new boards (ARM and MIPS) and improvements for them lately:<br \/>\nInitial <a href=\"http:\/\/mail-index.netbsd.org\/source-changes\/2015\/01\/23\/msg062604.html\">support <\/a>Xilinx Zync (dual core Cortex-A9) based <a href=\"http:\/\/zedboard.org\/product\/zedboard\">ZedBoard <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parallella.org\/board\/\">Parallella <\/a>boards.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netbsd.org\/tnf\/entry\/raspberry_pi_gpu_acceleration_in\">Hardware accelaration<\/a> for Broadcom VideoCore IV GPU used in Raspberry PI.<br \/>\nSupport for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elinux.org\/MIPS_Creator_CI20\">MIPS Creator CI20<\/a> (Ingenic JZ478 SoC with dual core MIPS32 cores and PowerVR SGX540 GPU) board reaches <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netbsd.org\/tnf\/entry\/ci20_reaches_userland\">userland<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/products\/raspberry-pi-2-model-b\/\">Raspberry PI 2<\/a> (quad core Cortex-A7) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netbsd.org\/tnf\/entry\/raspberry_pi_2_support_added\">support<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardkernel.com\/main\/products\/prdt_info.php\">Hardkernel ODROID-C1<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netbsd.org\/tnf\/entry\/netbsd_ported_to_hardkernel_odroid\">support <\/a>(quad core Cortex-A5). First board with Cortex-A5.<br \/>\nFinally a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/adukot\/netbsd-src\/tree\/apc8750\">work <\/a>have been done on <a href=\"http:\/\/apc.io\/products\/8750a\/\">APC8750 <\/a>board (ARM926EJ-S) support. Though it is not the official source tree currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My blog is quite silent lately but it doesn&#8217;t mean that nothing happens in NetBSD world. 5.1.5 and 5.2.3 security and bug-fix updates were released in the November last year for 5.1 and 5.2 branches. More information can be found here. If you are using these branches, it is strongly recommended to update to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/?p=218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some quick news on NetBSD<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netbsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}