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 <p>
   Go stopped running NetBSD builders during the Go 1.9 development
-  cycle due to persistent hangs and kernel crashes, up to and
-  including NetBSD 7.1. Any help investigating or solving the
-  <a href="https://github.com/golang/go/labels/OS-NetBSD">various
-  NetBSD bugs</a> would be appreciated. In the meantime, we can't
-  recommend running Go on NetBSD.
+  cycle due to NetBSD kernel crashes, up to and including NetBSD 7.1.
+  As Go 1.9 is being released, NetBSD 7.1.1 is being released with a fix.
+  However, at this time we have no NetBSD builders passing our test suite.
+  Any help investigating the
+  <a href="https://github.com/golang/go/labels/OS-NetBSD">various NetBSD issues</a>
+  would be appreciated.
 </p>
 
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 <h2 id="tools">Tools</h2>
 
 <h3 id="parallel-compile">Parallel Compilation</h3>