NetBSD 7.0_RC2

On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the second release candidate of NetBSD 7.0.

Some of the changes since 7.0_RC1 are:

• OpenSSL updated to 1.0.1p
• BIND updated to 9.10.2-P2
• IPSEC support is now included by default in Xen kernels
• Fix several security issues in calendar(1)
• installboot(8) now supports wedge names
• Fix a quota panic when using WAPBL (PR 49948)
• Fix a memory leak in the drm2 code
• Avoid an X crash on i915 DRMKMS
• Add a postinstall(8) check to ensure that /etc/man.conf reflects the modern mandoc world (PR 50020)
• Add a postinstall(8) check to ensure that /etc/fonts/fonts.conf is up to date
• tset(1): Fix handling of the erase character
• gdb(1): Fix attaching to a running process again after previously detaching
• NPF: handle unregistered interfaces correctly
• npfctl(8): Fix a NULL dereference
• zgrep(1): suppress the prefixing of filename on output when only one file is specified, to match grep(1)'s output
• Fix lrint(x) and llrint(x) when x is larger than 2**51 (PR 49690)
• Bump MAXTSIZ and MAXDSIZ on amiga, fixing gcc 4.8 execution
• Fix MKCTF=yes on drm2 kernels
• Make clock_t unsigned int everywhere, so it's the same on LP64 and IPL32 architectures
• arm: if halt is requested and there is no console, keep looping instead of rebooting
• sparc64: Fix booting of kernels with more than 4 MB combined .data and .bss segments
• powerpc: Fix occasional FPU register corruption (PR 50037)
• m68k: Fix atomic_cas_{8,16} and __sync_bool_compare_and_swap_{1,2,4} (PR 49995)

The full list of changes can be found near the bottom of http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0_RC2/CHANGES-7.0

Binaries of NetBSD 7.0_RC2 are available for download at:

http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0_RC2/

Those who prefer to build from source can either use the netbsd-7-0-RC2 tag or follow the netbsd-7 branch.

As always, please let us know how 7.0_RC2 works for you! Any feedback, whether good or bad, is welcome. Problems should be reported through the usual channels (submit a PR or write to the appropriate list). More general feedback is welcome at releng@NetBSD.org.