NetBSD is a free, fast, secure and extremely portable UNIX-like operating system.

Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
9 2 years ago
(14 Feb 2022)
Yes Yes 9.3
(04 Aug 2022)
8 5 years and 8 months ago
(17 Jul 2018)
Ended 2 years ago
(14 Feb 2022)
Yes 8.2
(31 Mar 2020)
7 8 years ago
(25 Sep 2015)
Ended 5 years and 8 months ago
(17 Jul 2018)
Ended 3 years and 9 months ago
(30 Jun 2020)
7.2
(29 Aug 2018)
6 11 years ago
(17 Oct 2012)
Ended 8 years ago
(25 Sep 2015)
Ended 5 years and 7 months ago
(17 Aug 2018)
6.1.5
(22 Sep 2014)
5 14 years ago
(29 Apr 2009)
Ended 11 years ago
(17 Oct 2012)
Ended 8 years ago
(25 Oct 2015)
5.2.3
(15 Nov 2014)

NetBSD makes new major releases approximately every 2-3 years, with point releases occurring every 6-12 months for the latest and prior major release. One month after a new major release, support typically ends for the NetBSD major release 2 versions prior. NetBSD also releases daily snapshots of the development source code tree as NetBSD-current.

Supported Branches

At any given time typically 3 branches of NetBSD are supported with security patches and bug fixes:

NetBSD publishes security advisories on the announcements mailing list, the security announcements mailing list, and the tech-security discussion mailing list. RSS feeds providing news and security information are also available.

More information is available on the NetBSD website.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
uname -r

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