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kryptiskt
> New MICROVM kernel for x86, supporting both i386 and amd64, NetBSD 11.0 introduces a dedicated MICROVM kernel designed for extremely fast virtual machines boot, leveraging PVH boot, VirtIO MMIO, and multiple kernel optimizations, it can boot in about 10 ms on 2020-era x86 CPUs.

Exciting

iberator
Fun fact: NetBSD supports VAX 70/380 system from 1978/79!

That's the oldest known architecture that can run modern Unix. 32 bit, MMU, multi cpu: ahead of it's time.

So if you travel back in time: that's a safe platform if you would like to do some system programming with modern knowledge.

Pet_Ant
> New port to the RISC-V processor architecture. NetBSD 11.0 is the first stable release to include support for 64-bit RISC-V

This is very exciting!

bmacho
The website is ideal on phones without JS: there is a small, CSS based hamburger button at the bottom. I've long suspected that this is the only structure that makes sense, but I don't think I've ever seen in it the wild before.