There was a newer release of OpenSSL (1.0.1p) last week, so there’s a new revision of the DragonFly release – 4.2.3. There’s little major change other than the security fix for OpenSSL.
Those readers who can count past 2 may notice that there wasn’t a 4.2.2. We went straight from 4.2.1 to 4.2.3. That’s my fault. I screwed up tagging and Git doesn’t like repeated, deleted tags.
BTW. Have you noticed that FreeBSD 10-stable is getting RACCT?
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=284665
Maybe it comes out as a part of 10.2, I hope, so one will not need to recompile the kernel to set ressource limits for jails any more. I wish they would include VIMAGE as well.
Binary vs. source update question. Should a “pkg upgrade” apply the changes in 4.2.3 to a prior 4.2.x version?
Todd – it will not, because pkg upgrade affects only ports. The base system is untouched. If you want to move to 4.2.3, you will need to download DragonFly src and rebuild. My strategy is:
cd /usr
make src-update
cd src
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
make upgrade
(reboot)
Yes and that source update process runs very well nowadays, also when you have a powerful server, like with 16 cores and do it make -j 32 buildworld on it, it goes really fast.