I know I say this often, but it’s important: I love cross-BSD commits.
HAMMER2 just became a little more DWIM: the pfs-list and pfs-delete directives will now look across all mounted filesystems, not just the current directory’s mount path. pfs-delete won’t delete any filesystem name that appears in more than one place, though.
DragonFly’s patch(1) is now at 2.0-12u11. I mention this not because it’s a dramatic change but because it’s a basic tool. Also, a benefit from our new committer.
Updates to third-party utilities happen often in DragonFly, and I don’t often link because they may not affect users much – but I’m noting a change to xargs(1) cause given what xargs does, any mistake you make will be repeated many times.
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, wpa_supplicant(8) in DragonFly jumped from version 2.1 to 2.9. There’s a nice changelog for the curious.
Thanks to Aaron LI and Daniel Fojt, libpcap and tcpdump in DragonFly have been updated. The vendor does The Right Thing and provides easy-to-find changelogs for both.
You can now use newsyslog(8) to rotate logs being written by daemon(8), thanks to this commit from Peeter Must.
tcplay(8) in DragonFly jumped from 2.0 to 3.3. This will be most relevant to you if you encrypt your disks. It’s nice to see DragonFly mentioned specifically on the GitHub source site.
This thread on having a tmpfs /var/run led to this commit, making it as easy as setting a rc.conf variable.
The recent 5.8.1 release of DragonFly includes, among other things, a fix for a de-duplication bug in HAMMER2. If you are curious, here’s the commit / details.
There’s a couple more small test/debug tools in DragonFly; possibly only useful if you like to poke at internals, but who doesn’t, really?
dhcpcd in DragonFly is updated to 9.0.2. This is a bugfix release, so no new features.
Imported directly by the author, DragonFly now has dhcpcd 9. The commit message lists changes.
(and there’s a 9.0.1)
Even if you run bash, zsh, or maybe fish, tcsh is the default root shell in DragonFly – and it just had an update. (all bugfixes according to the release notes)
The ssh-copy-id utility is now included in DragonFly 5.8 and in -current. Useful for your next machine setup.
This doesn’t really have any effect on you unless you are programming on DragonFly, but it’s interesting to read about a “spinlock trick” Matthew Dillon had implemented recently.
Aaron LI’s updated the development(7) man page to account for new steps in vendor import.
Aaron LI managed to graft FreeBSD code history onto the DragonFly BSD git repository, and he’s documented how he did it. So, you can follow DragonFly code all the way back to 2003, and then FreeBSD code all the way back to… I’m not sure how far back it goes, but it’s in his merged copy.