NetBSD 11.0 RC2 available!
8 March, 2026
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by martin@NetBSD.org
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the second 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.
Unfortunately the first release candidate had a few defects that we had
to fix, including speed enhancements for the ftp(1) client when
downloading large files, an updated tmux(1), reliability fixes for
blocklistd(8) and fixes for the Mesa library.
See the changes[3] document for details.
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 RC2 please check the installation notes[4] for
your architecture and download the preferred install image[5] from the CDN
or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-11 builds from
the bootable ARM images[6] 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[7] or
file a problem report[8].
[1] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC2/
[2] https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html
[3[ https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC2/CHANGES-11.0
[4] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC2/amd64/INSTALL.html
[5] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC2/images/
[6] https://armbsd.org/
[7] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/
[8] https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd