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The NetBSD 8.0 release process is underway, we try to measure the weight of an electron, and look at stack clashing.

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NetBSD 8.0 release process underway

• Soren Jacobsen writes on NetBSD-announce:

If you've been reading source-changes@, you likely noticed the recent creation of the netbsd-8 branch. If you haven't been reading source-changes@, here's some news: the netbsd-8 branch has been created, signaling the beginning of the release process for NetBSD 8.0.
We don't have a strict timeline for the 8.0 release, but things are looking pretty good at the moment, and we expect this release to happen in a shorter amount of time than the last couple major releases did.
At this point, we would love for folks to test out netbsd-8 and let us know how it goes. A couple of major improvements since 7.0 are the addition of USB 3 support and an overhaul of the audio subsystem, including an in-kernel mixer. Feedback about these areas is particularly desired.
To download the latest binaries built from the netbsd-8 branch, head to
[http://daily-builds.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-8/(]http://daily-builds.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-8/)
Thanks in advance for helping make NetBSD 8.0 a stellar release!

OpenIndiana Hipster 2017.04 is here

• Desktop software and libraries
  • Xorg was updated to 1.18.4, xorg libraries and drivers were updated.
  • Mate was updated to 1.16
  • Intel video driver was updated, the list of supported hardware has significantly extended
  • libsmb was updated to 4.4.6
  • gvfs was updated to 1.26.0
  • gtk3 was updated to 3.18.9
  • Major text editors were updated (we ship vim 8.0.104, joe 4.4, emacs 25.2, nano 2.7.5
  • pulseaudio was updated to 10.0
  • firefox was updated to 45.9.0
  • thunderbird was updated to 45.8.0
  • critical issue in enlightenment was fixed, now it's operational again
  • privoxy was updated to 3.0.26
  • Mesa was updated to 13.0.6
  • Nvidia driver was updated to 340.102
• Development tools and libraries
  • GCC 6 was added. Patches necessary to compile illumos-gate with GCC 6 were added (note, compiling illumos-gate with version other than illumos-gcc-4.4.4 is not supported)
  • GCC 7.1 added to Hipster
  • Bison was updated to 3.0.4
  • Groovy 2.4 was added
  • Ruby 1.9 was removed, Ruby 2.3 is the default Ruby now
  • Perl 5.16 was removed. 64-bit Perl 5.24 is shipped.
  • 64-bit OpenJDK 8 is the default OpenJDK version now.
  • Mercurial was updated to 4.1.3
  • Git was updated to 2.12.2
  • ccache was updated to 3.3.3
  • QT 5.8.0 was added
  • Valgrind was updated to 3.12.0
• Server software
  • PostgreSQL 9.6 was added, PostgreSQL 9.3-9.5 we