Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the third release candidate for NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 3. This release candidate has several bug fixes and other changes since the previous release candidate - RC2. The most important ones are: build of the 32-bit sparc64 kernel is fixed, allowing the sparc release to be built; many fixes to nfe(4) and bge(4) drivers; fixed PR 37037 - kernel memory corruption due to ipnat; support for the HP ML110 G2 / Adaptec 2610SA SATA RAID added to aac(4); fix of an off-by-one error in OpenSSL; avoid kernel crashes in signal handling (PR 37004) and Linux emulation (PR 36920); fix ACPI related interrupt storms due to differences between IOAPIC and classic interrupt routing."

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