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1.10    ! tron        1: # Hackathon 16
1.1       asau        2: 
1.10    ! tron        3: The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February 12th.
        !             4: Our goal is fixing all the bugs that needs fixing to get
        !             5: [[NetBSD-current|http://www.NetBSD0.org/docs/current/]] ready for the
        !             6: creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.
1.1       asau        7: 
                      8: Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net).
1.10    ! tron        9: Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs to
        !            10: be done.
1.1       asau       11: 
1.2       asau       12: ## Primary goals
1.1       asau       13: 
1.10    ! tron       14: We want NetBSD 6.0 to be the best NetBSD release ever. There are already
        !            15: a lot of great features in it:
1.1       asau       16: 
1.10    ! tron       17: * Improved kernel performance and scalibity
        !            18: * New kernel module framework with automatic module loading
        !            19: * Logic Volume Manager
        !            20: * NetBSD Packet Filter
        !            21: * Xen SMP support
        !            22: * Flash file-system CHFS
        !            23: * Automated Regression Testing
        !            24: * Improved FUSE support
        !            25: * Updated Linux emulation
        !            26: * GCC 4.5.3
        !            27: * Updated X.org X11 distribution
        !            28: * SMTP authentication client built into Postfix (now version 2.8.7)
        !            29: * New and enhanced drivers
        !            30: * ... and many other features
        !            31: 
        !            32: To make sure that NetBSD users get the best possible experience of
        !            33: the new release we would like to fix as many as possible of the
        !            34: following bugs:
        !            35: 
        !            36: Critical bugs:
        !            37: * [[PR 45677|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45677]]: The stress_killer test sometimes does
        !            38: * [[PR 45708|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45708]]: Unable to read big files from large FFSv2 (12TB), ls out of swap
        !            39: * [[PR 44788|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44788]]: mlock(2) panic
        !            40: * [[PR 45187|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45187]]: select(2) sometimes doesn't wakeup
        !            41: * [[PR 45833|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45833]]: occasional crash of 5.99.59: SPL NOT LOWERED ON TRAP EXIT