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# NetBSD Release Engineering
This page contains various information about NetBSD Release Engineering, including status information about various branches, pointers to release engineering procedures and other documentation, and the status of various branches.
## Next Major Release
The next major release will be NetBSD 8.0. A first release candidate is [available](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_0_release_candidate), no final date for the release has been set yet.
* Next release: NetBSD 8.0
+ CVS branch tag: <code>netbsd-8</code>
Please give a look to the [[NetBSD 8.0 pre-release task list|netbsd8]] for more
information about open issues and progress.
## Active Major Releases
### NetBSD 8.x
* Next minor release: NetBSD 8.1 (No release date proposed)
+ CVS branch tag: <code>netbsd-8</code>
* [Current pull-up queue for the netbsd-8 branch](http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-8.cgi)
### NetBSD 7.x
* Next minor release: NetBSD 7.2 (No release date proposed)
+ CVS branch tag: <code>netbsd-7</code>
* Actively supported teeny releases:
+ [NetBSD 7.1.2](http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.1.2.html)
- CVS branch tag: <code>netbsd-7-1</code>
+ [NetBSD 7.0.2](http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-7/NetBSD-7.0.2.html)
- CVS branch tag: <code>netbsd-7-0</code>
* [Current pull-up queue for the netbsd-7 branch](http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-7.cgi)
### NetBSD 6.x
* Next minor release: NetBSD 6.2 (No release date proposed)
+ CVS branch tag: <code>netbsd-6</code>
* Actively supported teeny releases:
+ [NetBSD 6.1.5](http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.1.5.html)
- CVS branch tag: <code>netbsd-6-1</code>
+ [NetBSD 6.0.6](http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.6.html)
- CVS branch tag: <code>netbsd-6-0</code>
* [Current pull-up queue for the netbsd-6 branch](http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-6.cgi)
## Automated Status Information
* [Daily build snapshot status](http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/builds.cgi)
* [Test results page](http://releng.netbsd.org/test-results.html)
## Developer Documentation
* [Submitting Pull-up requests](http://www.netbsd.org/developers/releng/pullups.html)
## Release Engineer Documentation
* [[Pull-up workflow and policies|workflow]]
* [[Long and mid-term releng chores|releng-todo]]
* [[The Autobuild cluster|autobuild]]
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