In Other BSDs for 2014/06/14

Enjoy.

DragonFly 3.8.1 by this Monday

Matthew Dillon posted a note about the next point release of DragonFly, coming within a few days.  Chunks of it like the recent OpenSSL and Sendmail fixes are already on the 3.8 branch. 

I assume I’ll be the one rolling it, and I plan to put together a 3.6.3 tag too, just so there’s a final version of 3.6 that has all changes rolled up.

OpenSSL update

There were more problems found in OpenSSL… right after release of DragonFly 3.8.  OpenSSL 1.0.1h has been committed, thanks to Robin Hahling and Sascha Wildner.  I’ll be rolling a 3.8.1 release soon.

If you are saying “Hey, what about LibreSSL?  And do I write it LibReSSL?”, it’s not set up as a portable release yet.  Also, I don’t know the correct capitalization, either.  There is some debate about the lack of notification from OpenSSL to LibreSSL, though other vendors were notified days before.

Lazy Reading for 2014/06/08

Less links than last week, but still lots.  Alliteration!

Your unrelated link of the week: Carpets for Airports.  Requires Flash, unfortunately.

In Other BSDs for 2014/06/07

Concise links this week.

DragonFly 3.8 released

The 3.8 release of DragonFly is out!  See the release page for a changelog and check your local mirror for download first.

Binary dports packages for 3.8 have been built; they are available for download.  (link goes to release versions of the packages.  Future updates will be in ../LATEST)

For upgrades from 3.6: You can pull the 3.8 source normally with git:

cd /usr/src
git fetch origin
git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_3_8 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_3_8
git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_3_8

Assuming you are using an unmodified kernel, here’s the steps I usually do for an upgrade:

# make buildworld && make buildkernel && make installkernel && make installworld && make upgrade

After upgrading from 3.6, pkg (as designed) will download the appropriate 3.8 packages with pkg upgrade.

Lazy Reading for 2014/06/01

I have possibly two weeks worth of Lazy Reading built up here, so sit down and get with the clicking:

Your unrelated comics link of the week: The End of Garfield. I don’t know if this is the original source for the image.