Author: Justin Sherrill

Sascha Wildner has committed mandoc(1) to DragonFly to use for man, whatis, apropos, and other functions.  One less GNU utility, and also means groff can come out of the base system.  That is almost the last C++ code in base…  I am not sure what remains.

Because of the ongoing pmap work from Matthew Dillon, building vkernels may not work for a short period in DragonFly-master.  “A short period” usually means a few days for this sort of thing.

Update: all better now.

I’m jumping ahead in my very full queue of DragonFly items to post to something new: Matthew Dillon has committed extensive work to the virtual memory system in DragonFly.   He has a message to users@ that sums it up.

If that’s not enough reading for you, I’ll point at commits where he reports speed improvements, changes to systat(1), or just 2-decade-old copyright items.

DragonFly 5.4.3 is out.  My users@ post describes upgrading, as do the 5.4 release notes.  This release has a fix for an Intel floating-point bug.

Images are available for download at various mirrors, too.  If you’ve recently upgraded to 5.4, it’s the normal build process.  There’s a brand new complete build of all packages uploaded, too, so plan on a ‘pkg update’.

This may never ever matter if you manage to avoid fdisk your whole life.  But if you don’t pull that off, here’s the reminder: label your DragonFly slices with 108.

(Yes, I do in fact have a backlog of two months with DragonFly material.  It’s been that constant.)

The callout_* API in DragonFly has been rewritten.  This will only affect you if you are doing some very specific programming – but it will be intensely interesting if so.  I mentioned it before, but don’t forget debugging.