On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:23:38AM +0200, ivo.schmagler@arcor.de wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask this question, but how come 
> the next release is named 2.0-Release instead of 1.7? NetBSD has always 
> been very 'conservative' with version numbers, so what are the major 
> breakthrough changes that justify taking this step?

In my opinion the amount of progression justifies a major version bump.
A short summary:

* native threads
* kqueue
* systrace
* UFSv2
* verified exec
* cgd
* non-exec mappings

A description of major new features can be found at:
http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-whatsnew.html

-- 
Daniel de Kok <danieldk@pobox.com>