NetBSD 11.0 RC1 available!
8 February, 2026
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by martin@NetBSD.org
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the first release candidate[1]
of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing! See the release
announcement[2] for details.
The netbsd-11 release branch is nearly a year old now, so it is high
time the 11.0 release makes it to the front stage.
Please note that various ISO images have been split into small ones for
CD/R media and full featured DVD ones. If you are not restricted by the
size limits of a CD/R medium, make sure to pick the image with
"-dvd.iso" in the name.
If you want to test 11.0 RC1 please check the installation notes[3] for
your architecture and download the preferred install image[4] from the CDN
or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-11 builds from
the bootable ARM images[5] page.
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the
system during use, please contact us on one of the mailing lists[6] or
file a problem report[7].
[1] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC1/
[2] https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html
[3] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC1/amd64/INSTALL.html
[4] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC1/images/
[5] https://armbsd.org/
[6] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/
[7] https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd