NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility

NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system.

NetBSD 11.0 is the project's first release supporting the 64-bit RISC-V architecture with initial hardware support on StarFive JH71XX-based platforms like the VisionFive 2 and STAR64. NetBSD 11.0 RISC-V on QEMU is also supported. This is in addition to NetBSD supporting AMD64, ARM, SPARC64, MIPS, and many other architectures.

Over on the Arm side, NetBSD 11.0 has initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite hardware, including the Oryon CPU cores and other hardware enablement work.

NetBSD 11.0 also delivers better support for the POSIX.1-2024 and C23 standards, enhanced compatibility with various Linux system calls using its "compat_linux" code, a new MICROVM kernel for x86/amd64 for extremely fast virtual machine booting, and a virt68k port for running the Motorola 68000 port within QEMU using para-virtualized devices.

NetBSD 11.0 further brings some new Intel and AMD drivers, SIMD-accelerated X.Org Server optimizations on AArch64, various kernel optimizations, and other hardware enablement across the board.

Downloads and more details on today's NetBSD 11.0 release can be found at NetBSD.org.