Before I go into the details, let me add a hint on the "source-changes-full" mailing list, which is like source-changes, but the mails there also contain diffs of the changes (as long as they are below 1MB in size). The -full list is not archived on mail-index.netbsd.org, and I must have missed the announcement. It's definitely useful!

So, what interesting changes have there been to NetBSD-current recently? Here we go:

• New / updated drivers:
  • sdtemp(4) reads the on-DIMM temperature sensors following the JEDEC Standard No. 21-C Section 4-7.
  • gpio(4) got support for Intel ICH southbridges as found on Intel SS4220-E (ICH7) and Acorp 6A815EPD (ICH2) motherboards
  • lom(4) supports the LOMlite "Lights Out Management" boards found on Sun hardware like the LOMlite found on the Sun Netra t1 and the LOMlite2 found on Sun Netra T1/X1 and Sun Fire V100/V120.
  • An initial version of a SD/MMC driver for the Winbond W83L518D (and probably W83L519D) Integrated Media Reader with PNP bus attachment glue was added.
  • acpiwmi(4) was added to added, to further support ACPI development. See the specs for more details.
  • piixide(4) now supports Intel 3400 SATA
• New kernel interfaces and library functions include:
  • getdate(3) and getdate_err(3) were added according to POSIX.1 and the Open Group
  • RAIDframe was sped up massively when checking parity after a system crash with the help of a parity map. This work was done during this year's Google Summer-of-Code.
  • A "netbsd.inet.icmp.bmcastecho" sysctl was added to disable replies to the broadcast address.
  • Floating point functions f{min,max,dim}{,l,f}(3) were added
  • udl(4) adds support for DisplayLink DL-1x0/1x5 based USB LCDs and USB-VGA adaptors
• Random other additions and changes include:
  • hdaudioctl(8) can be used to manipulate hdaudio(4) devices
  • The NetBSD/playstation2 port was removed due to a lack of developer support. It's still available in CVS.
  • The NetBSD/i386 bootloader now knows a "dev" command to list available boot devices and their size.
• Newly imported and updated 3rd party software includes:
  • pfsync from OpenBSD 4.2, adopted in this year's Google Summer of Code.
  • PF from OpenBSD 4.2 was imported.
  • Multicast DNS ("Bonjour") support was added, based on Apple's mDNSResponder. Enable with "dns: mdns" in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
  • GNU binutils were updated to version 2.19
  • Many of the bazillion of X.org components were updated - ways too many to note in detail.
  • BIND was updated to 9.7.0b1
  • Flex 2.5.35 was imported
  • A new m4(1) was imported