NetBSD 9.2 is now available as the latest update to NetBSD 9. It's not a particularly exciting update but does have a large number of fixes throughout the operating system stack. Much faster fread() is one of the interesting changes to mention with NetBSD 9.2.
Some of the NetBSD 9.2 highlights include:
- The FREAD system call has seen an optimization to buffer handling for unbuffered I/O that it's "speeding up the function several orders of magnitude."
- Stability fixes for its ZFS file-system support.
- Various improvements to the AArch64 support.
- Many device driver fixes, including an issue where various Intel Gigabit Ethernet controllers would be unable to receive packets on big endian systems.
- Various security fixes.
More details on NetBSD 9.2 can be found via the project's release notes . The NetBSD 9.2 release notes are dated 12 May but the actual release seems to have only took place this morning.