NetBSD 7.0.2 released (October 21, 2016)

Introduction

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.0.2, the second security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 7.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons.

Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 7.0.2 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found athttp://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/. We encourage users who wish to install via ISO or USB disk images to download via BitTorrent by using the torrent files supplied in the images area. A list of hashes for the NetBSD 7.0.2 distribution has been signed with the well-connected PGP key for the NetBSD Security Officer: http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/hashes/NetBSD-7.0.2_hashes.asc

NetBSD is free. All of the code is under non-restrictive licenses, and may be used without paying royalties to anyone. Free support services are available via our mailing lists and website. Commercial support is available from a variety of sources. More extensive information on NetBSD is available from our website:

http://www.NetBSD.org/

Changes Between 7.0.1 and 7.0.2

The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES-7.0.2 file in the top level directory of the NetBSD 7.0.2 release tree. An abbreviated version is below:

Security fixes

The following security advisory was fixed:

• NetBSD-SA2016-006 Race condition in mail.local(8)

Note: Advisories prior to NetBSD-SA2016-006 do not affect NetBSD 7.0.1.

• Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1u.
• Update ntp to 4.2.8p8.
• Update BIND to 9.10.4-P3.
• Fix several protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries.
• libsa getpass: check bounds on input.

Other changes

• Fix a crash in NFS.
• Various MIPS pmap improvements.
• Fix a crash in fss(4) when mounting a snapshot read/write. PR kern/51377.
• Fix an issue with UFS1 file systems that were created outside of NetBSD.
• vioif(4): Fix an issue that was causing queue stalls in some environments.
• Update root.cache to 20160825.
• evbppc: Actually provide EV64260, OPENBLOCKS200, OPENBLOCKS266, and WALNUT kernel images.
• sparc64:
  • Fix kernel module relocations. PR kern/51436.
  • Fix RAS for 32-bit kernels.

It's play time!

- wong chee tat :)