I imagine this may work for any BSD, really. Aaron Li has the instructions, which may be especially useful for non-English readers.
Easy bsdstats fix
If you installed BSDStats but it didn’t work, here’s why – with a fix.
dragonflybsd.org line height
I for some reason set line height properties in the style sheet for dragonflybsd.org years ago, and it made scroll bars appear around all <pre> text. It’s taken me years, but I finally removed it. Anyone notice other effects than the lack of those odd scrollbars?
Learning 2 things
Sometimes you get 2 nice tips: I like seeing this NetBSD->FreeBSD->DragonFly cross pollination in this commit, and also now I know I can fsck a FAT volume on BSD.
3rd bonus: that last sentence sounds terribly rude.
cpdup and microseconds
cpdup(1), a DragonFly copying tool that really should be more used, now uses microseconds for comparison. This is probably related to the sysctl vfs.timestamp_precision also now using microseconds.
This probably won’t affect your usage of cpdup unless you are copying some very actively modified files, but I like to mention it in case someone feels like porting it to OpenBSD/NetBSD – it’s already in FreeBSD, though I assume it’s a slightly older version.
2 more laptops for DragonFly
Thanks to Pierre-Alain Toret, we know 2008 Macbooks and Samsung NP370R5E-A04FR laptop models support Dragonfly. If you have DragonFly running on a model not mentioned, please add it.
An update for iwm(4) users
There’s a refresh of the iwm(4) driver in DragonFly, which will apparently help most for iwm-9000 and iwm-9260 owners.
I don’t know which product names correspond with those chipsets, but you may be able to tell who you are. Interesting note: original driver via OpenBSD, then synced from FreeBSD version. Cross-pollination!
mrouted out
mrouted(8) is removed from DragonFly – but it’s available as a port if you need it.
drm/i915: Update to Linux 4.8.17
i915 DRM has been updated to match the Linux 4.8.17 version, in DragonFly. It includes some OpenBSD work too, interestingly.
leave to 99
I didn’t even know the leave(1) program existed, but now it takes slightly more flexible input.
True du on DragonFly
You probably type “du -sh *” reflexively when looking at disk usage, or at least I do. On DragonFly, there’s also a -t option, which gives the simple file size on disk. That’s the amount of data that would need to move when copied; that may differ from other amounts because of compression at the filesystem level.
Power vs serial
This is minor, but I’ll mention it because it might bite you someday: if you are using powerd to minimize CPU power usage, and also trying to push a high data rate through your serial port, you might drop characters. It’s mentioned in the powerd(8) man page, which has an entertaining bugs section.
Time your boot
This recent change in kernel memory use may make booting faster. If you’re running -current, time your boot before and after this change, and see what the difference is. I’m always curious.
ACPI fix in DragonFly
A recent implementation of SMAP would cause a panic on some machines; that’s now fixed (including on release). So if you had a panic from ACPI between May and now – please retry.
Different touchpad support in DragonFly
If you have an Elantech touchpad IC type 15 on your laptop (and you do if it’s a ThinkPad L480 or Huawei Magicbook), it’s now supported in DragonFly. Thanks to K Staring for the fix.
i915 updates
The i915(4) driver now supports some newer models of Intel GPU, thanks to Francois Tigeot.
nullfs, tmpfs, going to jail
Where to find dports build results
Synth logs for dports are now located here on a new machine:
https://sting.dragonflybsd.org/dports/logs/Report/
If there’s only a short list, it’s because the most recent build was probably focused on retrying a broken-but-now-possibly-fixed package. I link both because of the utility and also because the interface is pretty.
Completing shutdown
If you’ve ever been left watching a “press any key…” line at shutdown of your DragonFly system, there’s now a fix. It’s committed to release, too, so it’s available now.
While you’re at it, there’s a HAMMER2 bugfix that will also be brought in by updating.
Circular cross-pollination
I sorta like seeing these things ricochet back and forth.