As promised, DragonFly_Stable is just now matched up with the newest DragonFly source. It’s a good time to update!
Joerg Sonnenberger has committed the first steps to using Xorg 6.8.1. It’s possible to install the port now, but there’s… issues.
Matthew Dillon’s committed initial work to brink in David Xu’s 1:1 threading work from FreeBSD. There;s a test utility for it, too.
Joerg Sonneberger has removed Perl. The /usr/bin/perl binary will still be sitting there, though.
Matthew Dillon’s committed some more changes for journaling, and posted a progress summary.
Jeffrey Hsu has replaced and improved the routing code, some of which dates back 30 years.
Look! Joerg Sonnenberger committed something big and it looks important and I have no clue what it is! Oh, I am so tired.
Jeffrey Hsu’s comitted more work to get ready for a parallelized routing setup. Interestingly, if you look at the commit message and count the lines added and subtracted (the ‘Changes’ column), there’s generally less code as a result.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added binutils-2.15 and cvs 1.12.11 into the DragonFly source tree.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added OpenSSL 0.9.7e to DragonFly. YONETANI Tomokazu also fixed a bug where each directory committed to the DragonFly CVS generated a separate CVS message – the OpenSSL addition generated something like 90 messages.
Matthew Dillon’s added the first parts of the journaling infrastructure, among other things, in his most recent VFS work.
Joerg Sonneberger committed a patch from Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert that fixes a longstanding problem with X.org and multithreaded applications. Read the commit message for more details.
Matthew Dillon, with the assistence of many, has tracked down the keyboard connection loss issue that was plaguing a number of people.
If you are one of those people, update, check /usr/src/sys/dev/misc/kbd/kbd.c to make sure it’s version 1.14, and rebuild.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai added support for a number of different Intel devices.
YONETANI Tomokazu committed changes to make MAKEDEV include ServeRAID devices by default.
A recently discovered security problem in FreeBSD’s proc also affects DragonFly; it’s already been fixed.
I feel I should mention Max Okumoto has been submitting patches and updates relentlessly over the past while – no specific links, other than these search results to show the volume.
Checkpointing has now been fully integrated, with man pages and everything.
Matthew Dillon has added code that should hopefully fix the long-standing timer bug some people have seen.
A big was found in SACK; it could cause downloaded file corruption – it’s fixed now.