Subject: Re: Upcoming 2.0-RELEASE
To: Daniel de Kok <danieldk@pobox.com>
From: Mike M. Volokhov <mishka@apk.od.ua>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 05/18/2004 10:15:04
On Tue, 18 May 2004 09:06:34 +0200
Daniel de Kok <danieldk@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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

* SMP for sparc, i386, macppc, amd64 ...

--
BR, Mishka.