Announcing NetBSD 1.6.1
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The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.6.1 of the
NetBSD Operating System is now available.

NetBSD 1.6.1 is a maintenance release for users of NetBSD 1.6
which provides the following updates relative to 1.6:

    * A number of security issues have been fixed.
    * Some performance fixes have been incorporated.
    * Improved device support in some existing drivers.
    * Some new device drivers have been added.
    * The evbsh3 port has been added to the binary distribution.
    * Some minor userland fixes have been applied.

The NetBSD 1.6.1 distribution consists of the full NetBSD source,
binary releases for 40 ports including the X Window System, and the
NetBSD Packages Collection 1.6.1 release.

Complete source and binaries are available at many sites around the
world. A list of download sites via FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other              
methods may be found at:                                                       

	http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/

For further information about NetBSD 1.6.1, supported architectures,
changes between NetBSD 1.6 and 1.6.1, and how to obtain NetBSD is
available in the full release announcement which may be found at:

	http://www.NetBSD.org/Releases/formal-1.6/NetBSD-1.6.1.html

Acknowledgments
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The NetBSD Foundation would like to thank all those who have
contributed code, hardware, documentation, funds, colocation for
our servers, web pages and other documentation, release engineering,
and other resources over the years.  More information on contributors
is available at:

        http://www.NetBSD.org/contrib/

We would like to especially thank the University of California at
Berkeley and the GNU Project for particularly large subsets of code
that we use, and the Internet Software Consortium, Redback Networks
and the Helsinki University of Technology for current colocation
services.