The development of NetBSD 10 started at the end of 2019. After nearly 3 years of development, NetBSD 10.0 has finally released its first Beta version.

The announcement wrote that NetBSD 10 will be an important milestone in terms of performance improvement, especially that the performance of NetBSD 10’s multi-core operating system is much faster than previous versions. However, the current Beta version enables some additional kernel diagnostics, which may reduce performance slightly.

other important changes

• Compatible with WireGuard
• Support automatic encryption for SWAP partition
• Introducing a new disk encryption method
• CPU acceleration in the kernel
• Support for more Arm-based hardware, including Rockchip RK356X, NXP i.MX 8M, Amlogic G12, Apple M1 and Raspberry Pi 4
• Support for new security features in the latest ARM CPUs
• Support for new network adapters, including Realtek 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet and new Intel 10/25/40 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
• Port compat_linux to AArch64 architecture
• Porting DTrace to MIPS
• Improved support for multiprocessors, with more iMac G5 support
• Significant revisions to Xen hypervisor support
• Introduces new programs for userspace, including blkdiscard(8) for manually trimming disk space, aiomixer(1) for controlling audio volume, realpath(1), and fsck_udf(8)…

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NetBSD is a free, secure and highly portable UNIX-like operating system, which is suitable for many platforms, from 64-bit AlphaServers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded systems. Its clean design and advanced features have made it acclaimed both in industry and academia. Users can obtain support through the complete source code. Many applications are readily available from the NetBSD Packages Collection.