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[20180104] NetBSD 7.1.1 released
On December 22nd, NetBSD 7.1.1 was released as premature christmas present, see the release annoucement.

NetBSD 7.1.1 is the first update with security and critical fixes for the NetBSD 7.1 branch. Those include a number of fixes for security advisories, kernel and userland.

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[20180104] New year, new security advisories!
So things have become a bit silent here, which is due to reallife - my apologies. Still, I'd like to wish everyone following this here a Happy New Year 2018! And with this, a few new security advisories have been published:

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[20180104] 34C3 talk: Are all BSDs created equally?
I haven't seen this mentioned on the NetBSD mailing lists, and this may be of interest to some - there was a talk about security bugs in the various BSDs at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress:

In summary, many reasons for bugs are shown in many areas of the kernel (system calls, file systems, network stack, compat layer, ...), and what has happened after they were made known to the projects.

As a hint, NetBSD still has a number of Security Advisories to publish, it seems. Anyone wants to help out the security team? :-)

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