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 12.0.

• not branched yet, no timeline.

Active Major Releases

NetBSD 11.x

• Next minor release: NetBSD 11.1 (ETA end of September 2026)
  • CVS branch tag: netbsd-11
• Current pull-up queue for the netbsd-11 branch

NetBSD 10.x

• Next minor release: NetBSD 10.2 (ETA end of August 2026)
  • CVS branch tag: netbsd-10
• Current pull-up queue for the netbsd-10 branch

NetBSD 9.x

• Next minor release would be NetBSD 9.5, but is unlikely to happen.
  • CVS branch tag: netbsd-9
• Current pull-up queue for the netbsd-9 branch
• end of support for netbsd-9 end of August 2026

Automated Status Information

• Daily build snapshot status
• Test results page

Developer Documentation

• Submitting Pull-up requests

Release Engineer Documentation

• Pull-up workflow and policies
• WIP: new branching, pullup and release policies
• Long and mid-term releng chores