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The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fifth (and
hopefully final) release candidate[1] of the upcoming 10.0
release, please help testing! See the release anouncement[2]
for details.

The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so
it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage.
This matches the long time it took for the developement branch
to get ready for branching, a lot of developement went into
this new release.

This also caused the release anouncement to be one of the
longest we ever did.

Since RC1 there have been numerous changes, including major
updates to external software included in the release:
Postfix, OpenSSH, and the firmware used for Raspberry PI
devices. Various issues with RC1 have been fixed, including
installer (sysinst) crashes. Lots of architecture specific
fixes happend, e.g. various toolchain changes for VAX (so
it is now finaly self-hosting again), and kernel changes
for macppc, netwinder, and alpha.

For RC3 only few (relatively) minor changes were made,
including https certificate verification in libfetch
(which is used by pkg_ad(1)), and also improvements to
the EFI bootloader to better deal with booting from CD
(or in virtual machines ISO images), plus lots of various
bug fixes.

RC4 became necessary as a few very important DRM/KMS
issues especially for Intel GPUs have been resolved. And
as an (unexpected) bonus support for the Nintendo Wii
has been added to the evbppc port.

RC5 has a few important security related updates of third
party components (named, nsd, unbound, wpa_supplicant).

If you want to test 10.0 RC5 please check the installation
notes[4] for your architecture and download the prefered
install image[5] from the CDN or if you are using an ARM
based device from the netbsd-10 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].

The NetBSD release engineering team

[1] = https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC5/
[2] = https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html
[3] = https://wiki.NetBSD.org/releng/netbsd-10/
[4] = https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC5/amd64/INSTALL.html
[5] = https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC5/images/
[6] = https://armbsd.org/
[7] = https://mail-index.NetBSD.org/
[8] = https://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd

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