14 DAY TRIAL // NetBSD Project's Soren Jacobsen announced today the general availability of the first point release of the NetBSD 7.1 operating system series.
Coming nine and a half months after the launch of the NetBSD 7.1 series, NetBSD 7.1.1 is mainly a security and bugfix release that addresses important issues like a buffer overflow via cmap for four graphics drivers, x86 vulnerabilities, and a Vnode reference leak in the openat system call.
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1.1, the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 7.1 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. If you are running an earlier release of NetBSD, we strongly suggest updating to 7.1.1," reads today's announcement.
Here's what's new in NetBSD 7.1.1
Included in NetBSD 7.1.1, we can find Heimdal 7.1, BIND 9.10.5-P2, tzdata 2017c, root.cache 2017102400, ntp 4.2.8p10, expat 2.2.1, and wpa_supplicant 2.6. Components like dhcrelay, mtree, ping, resize_ffs, rtadvd, vi, and virecover received fixes as well in this release, and you can see the full list of changes below.
You can also study the release notes, but most of the changes included in the NetBSD 7.1.1 point release are in the kernel, which got numerous fixes for various issues related to components like ipfilter, netsmb, vnd, dm9000, cgd, bwi, altq, compat_svr4, compat_linux, evbmips, i82596, ipw, isp, ural, wm, and others.
It's not a major release, but it is a more than welcomed if it adds an extra layer of stability and security improvements to initial NetBSD 7.1 installations. Therefore, we recommend all NetBSD 7.1 users to update to version 7.1.1 as soon as possible, and, for new deployments, you can download the NetBSD 7.1.1 ISO images from our website.