NetBSD 8.0 an sake shi tare da manyan kayan haɓaka tsaro. Masoyan hanyoyin buɗe ido su sani cewa tsarin aiki na dangin BSD ya riga ya kasance kuma daga cikin waɗannan ci gaban tsaro akwai alamun tsaro da ake tsammani waɗanda ke magance raunin da aka gano a wasu gine-ginen CPU na zamani, kamar Specter v2 da v4, Meltdown da Ragwan FPU wanda aka samo shi kwanan nan.
Wannan makon an sabunta NetBSD zuwa sigar 8.0, wanda baya ga waɗannan haɓaka tsaro ya kawo wasu da yawa waɗanda zasu inganta kwanciyar hankali da zai cire wasu kwari daga sigogin da suka gabata. Ya zo watanni 7 bayan babban sakin NetBSD 7.0, wato, fiye da rabin shekara na ci gaba mai ƙarfi wanda ya ƙare da waɗannan sakamakon. Af, mitigations na specter v2 sun dogara ne akan fasahar Retpoline da aka yi amfani da ita a cikin GNU GCC mai tarawa, wanda tare da sabunta microcode na Intel da kwakwalwan AMD suke yin sauran ...
Gaskiya a cikin GNU / Linux mun more waɗannan sabunta tsaro da faci tun da daɗewa, yana ba ni mamaki cewa cikin NetBSD ya zo da wuri sosai. Na kuma fahimci cewa al'ummomin ci gaban NetBSD sun fi ƙanƙanta kuma sun fi rufe, kuma yana da ɗan rikitarwa a gare su ... Ba na so in ɓata shi ta kowane hali. Don haka idan kuna son gwadawa, kuna iya zuwa shafin yanar gizon aikin kuma gano NetBSD a karo na farko ko haɓakawa zuwa wannan sabon sigar idan kuna amfani dashi.
Af, ban da inganta tsaro sun haɗa da da yawa wasu ci gaba akan NetBSD 8.0. Misalin wannan shine tallafi ga SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prever) na duka 32 da 64-bit, sabbin fasali ga bootI bootloader, tallafi ga USB 3.0, sabbin abubuwa a cikin mahaɗin mai ji da muryar kernel, sabon layin soket don sadarwa tare da CAN na'urorin bas, wasu labarai a cikin hanyar sadarwa tare da ipsecif, ingantaccen aiki da kwanciyar hankali a cikin FS, da dogon sauransu.