[[!meta title="NetBSD 9.0 preliminary tasklist"]] ## PRs worth fixing (carried over unclosed PRs from [[netbsd8]]) * ~~[[!template id=pr number=53053]]: non-MULTIPROCESSOR hangs building Go~~ (still reproducable with newer go?) [[!template id=pr number=53173]]: "go test net/http" locks up the machine (both PRs tied /!\ ) * [[!template id=pr number=53016]]: Clock not stable /!\ * [[!template id=pr number=53017]]: Kernel panics every now and then with "fpusave_lwp: did not" message * [[!template id=pr number=53155]]: Wedge after <12h uptime when >2 bnx network interfaces in use /!\ * [[!template id=pr number=53161]]: ATF test runs leave a rump_server process around * [[!template id=pr number=53286]]: hdaudio(4), iwm(4) and rtsx(4) detections fail in UEFI case /!\ * [[!template id=pr number=53291]]: GPT prevents installation ## Bug Bountys PRs in the above list marked with /!\ are show stoppers and have a bug bounty of $100 attached. If you find a solution for one of the marked issues that leads to closing of the PRs, we will get in touch with you. ## Features to finish/implement * IPF/PF deprecation in favour of NPF - TODO: docs, what features to add to NPF ... * ATA/NCQ - ~~variants of [[!template id=pr number=48214]] "clearing WDCTL_RST failed" during boot~~ (done, waiting for confirmation) - ~~[[!template id=pr number=52783]] parallel fsck hangs during boot of 8.99.[5678]~~ (done) - ~~[[!template id=pr number=52614]] qemu virtual CD-ROM reports read errors since recent wdc changes~~ (done) - [[!template id=pr number=53183]] System stops servicing I/O requests and eventually deadlocks * UBC using direct map working on amd64 and possibly alpha, aarch64 - [[!template id=pr number=53124]] (FFS is slow because pmap_update doesn't scale) - all known issues fixed - confirmed working on amd64 and alpha - patch for aarch64 being tested * XEN AVX working - ~~[[!template id=pr number=50332]] AVX instructions don't work but OSXSAVE flag is set~~ (done) * ZFS * ~~~kASan for amd64~~~ (done) * ~~~kASan for aarch64~~~ (done) * compiler-rt in the base with enabled features for Clang/LLVM * LVM mirror target * ~~~add NVMM~~~ (done) * ~~~plug kernel pointer leaks~~~ (done) * ~~~fix Nouveau, some GPUs stopped working after the update~~~ (done) * umb(4) confirmed working with network traffic ## Nice to have * gcc 8+ from a sanitizers point of view * ~~~arm: GENERIC kernel config for armv7 boards.~~~ (done) * ~~~arm64: Support for servers following SBSA/SBBR standards~~~ (done) * ~~~updated graphics drivers~~~ (done) * PVHVM and PVH * ~~~ARM64 ACPI~~~ (done) * WireGuard * expand x86 intr masks to allow up to 64 interrupts per CPU and hence 48 MSI/MSI-X on cpu0 [[http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2018/12/01/msg034728.html]] ## Nice to have, but likely won't be finished on time * merge pgoyette-compat * address failing ptrace(2) tests, cover the remaining scenarios (there are planned ~2k ATF tests total for the elementary functionality) * rework semantics of threading operations in ptrace(2) ... ## Release notes (top) * Support for Aarch64 (ARM 64-bit) machines. The aarch64 port should work on many Allwinner machines, SBSA/SBBR compatible servers. It supports multiple processors, including in a big.LITTLE configuration, ACPI and UEFI. It uses a single kernel to support a large amount of boards with the help of ACPI+UEFI or FDT. * Updated graphical acceleration support from Linux 4.4. Intel graphics including Kaby Lake. Nouveau and radeon. * nvmm(4) - hardware-accelerated virtualization, currently supporting x86-SVM. a patched QEMU package exists that utilizes this. XXX make statement reflect reality at the time of the release. * KASLR - kernel address stack randomization. Note that the default kernel does not use this option. XXX maybe link for how to use it, then. * kASAN - kernel address sanitizer build option, to detect memory access violations, for x86 and aarch64. * kUBSAN - kernel undefined behaviour sanitizer. * KLEAK - detects kernel memory leaks. * bwfm(4) - Broadcom Full-MAC wireless driver at PCI and USB (from OpenBSD) * ena(4) - Amazon.com Elastic Network Adapter (from FreeBSD) * GCC leak sanitizer support ARM hardware support: * Support for running on Amazon AWS ARM instances. * Support for nVidia Tegra X1 SoCs * Support for Pine64 SoCs, including pinebook misc: * newsmips NWS-4000 support The following components have been removed: * ISDN support and related drivers (daic(4), iavc(4), ifpci(4), ifritz(4), iwic(4), isic(4)) * Network ATM protocol code and related drivers (midway(4)) * Remote NDIS API compatibility (for running unmodified older Windows drivers) * SVR4 binary compatibility code * VM86 * IPKDB (remote debugger) * NetOctave NSP2000 security accelerator, n8(4) ## Release notes (next) * GCC 6.5.0 * GDB 8.0.1 * LLVM 7.0.0 * OpenSSL 1.1.1a * OpenSSH 7.8 * sqlite 3.26.0