1Release plans for NetBSD-6.0
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3
4This file is managed by the release engineering team - please get in touch
5with them with any feedback.
6
7Will be in 6.0
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9+ ZFS - need an update on viability, needs work
10+ in-kernel iSCSI initiator, and user tools - in othersrc, needs to be moved to src
11+ 64-bit time_t
12+ rump - pooka has declared interfaces stable
13+ LVM/dmapper and tools
14+ workable MIPS for all
15+ netpgp - agc
16+ able to use external compilers and toolchain
17+ cleaned up files in repos - joerg
18+ support for wide efficient regexps with tre
19+ native X11R7
20+ TLS - joerg
21+ following on from TLS, modern gdb
22+ lua scripting
23+ agreement and communication of tiered port system (before release) - pooka
24+ other enhancements and new functionality in -current
25+ tcp support in libsa? need to merge SoC project
26+ sasl - SoC project was merged
27+ namei changes - dholland
28+ support for resizing ffs - riz
29+ production support for fss
30+ Xen/SMP
31+ Xen suspend/resume
32+ automated test framework for testing releng autobuilds
33+ full functionality for NPF - SMP-aware packet filter - rmind
34+ fixed IPSEC NAT-T
35+ GPT-aware bootloader for i386/amd64 - jakllsch
36+ gcc 4.5
37+ clang - joerg
38+ NetBSD/usermode - jmcneill, reinoud
39
40Possibly in 6.0
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42+ mobile IPv6 - we have the mods, need application of same to the repo
43+ kernel modules need work
44
45May not make 6.0
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47+ XIP
48
49Will not be in 6.0
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51+ gaols
52+ sctp
53+ devfs
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55
56Alistair Crooks
57On behalf of core and releng teams
58Mon Aug 15 07:41:56 PDT 2011
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