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.
Matthew Dillon did an update of checkpointing, as apparently someone had expressed interest in porting it.
A vulnerability was found in FreeBSD’s fetch, which also affected the DragonFly version. Jeroen Ruigrok has already fixed it.
Matthew Dillon’s committed the next big stage of his VFS work; the commit message includes a lengthy explanation of what it touches.
GDB 6.2.1 is now in the tree, and the BSD version of tar (bsdtar) is now included but not built by default. It’s all thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s removed a.out support.
Matthew Dillon committed changes from Andreas Hauser that makes the default firewall setup (in /etc/rc.firewall relatively normal and usable.
Upgrade using ‘make upgrade’, not mergemaster. Why? Well, for one thing, ‘upgrade’ only touches files that you shouldn’t.
Joerg Sonneberger added the NetBSD version of gzip. It uses the new libz, so it works more efficiently, plus it’s not GNU, which matters to some folks.
GNU readline 5.0 has been committed by Joerg Sonnberger, from suggestions by Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert. Joerg also added GDB 6.2.1 which (at this point) requires “make obj; make depend all install”
in gnu/usr.bin/gdb in order to use it.
Joerg Sonnenberger removed gcc 3.3 – nobody should miss it, as gcc 3.4 is installed.
uname -a will now use the CVS tag from the cvsup of code involved in building that kernel. In more explicit terms, DragonFly_Stable will now be reported as such, instead of CURRENT.
Matthew Dillon has added (partial) support for devices such as the Logitech Desktop Pro, as suggested by Roland Hammerle from what he found in a FreeBSD patch.