Release plans for NetBSD-6.0
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This file is managed by the release engineering team - please get in touch
with them with any feedback.

Will be in 6.0
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+ ZFS - need an update on viability, needs work
+ in-kernel iSCSI initiator, and user tools - in othersrc, needs to be moved to src
+ 64-bit time_t
+ rump - pooka has declared interfaces stable
+ LVM/dmapper and tools
+ workable MIPS for all
+ netpgp - agc
+ able to use external compilers and toolchain
+ cleaned up files in repos - joerg
+ support for wide efficient regexps with tre
+ native X11R7
+ TLS - joerg
+ following on from TLS, modern gdb
+ lua scripting
+ agreement and communication of tiered port system (before release) - pooka
+ other enhancements and new functionality in -current
+ tcp support in libsa? need to merge SoC project
+ sasl - SoC project was merged
+ namei changes - dholland
+ support for resizing ffs - riz
+ production support for fss
+ Xen/SMP
+ Xen suspend/resume
+ automated test framework for testing releng autobuilds
+ full functionality for NPF - SMP-aware packet filter - rmind
+ fixed IPSEC NAT-T
+ GPT-aware bootloader for i386/amd64 - jakllsch
+ gcc 4.5
+ clang - joerg
+ NetBSD/usermode - jmcneill, reinoud

Possibly in 6.0
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+ mobile IPv6 - we have the mods, need application of same to the repo
+ kernel modules need work

May not make 6.0
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+ XIP

Will not be in 6.0
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+ gaols
+ sctp
+ devfs


Alistair Crooks
On behalf of core and releng teams
Mon Aug 15 07:41:56 PDT 2011