A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
ifconfig now has ‘proxy’ and ‘-proxy’ options. The ‘proxy’ option is now on by default, so a given IPv6 interface will respond to neighbor solicitations when forwarding is on. Use ‘-proxy’ to turn it off; the previous default.
(This was back in May, and I missed posting it before.)
If you have an hda(4) sound device – and you probably do – it’s been updated. This is not in the 6.4.2 release.
6.4.2, a bugfix upgrade to 6.4.1, is ready to download. Why so soon? A few annoying bugs that have been around a long time – and affect the installer – are fixed. These changes will help you out if you run Qemu as host, run chrome, or use ipv6.
Michael Neumann posted a progress report on his webcam work for DragonFly. The short description is: it’s recognizing hardware but not recording yet. You can try it now.
Michael Neumann proposed a lot of changes to crypto(9) and dm_target_crypt(4); his initial proposal is I think now complete and committed, other than that tcplay(8) was updated instead of removed. Here’s a sorted list of his commits. These are not in the 6.4.1 release.
6.4.1, a bugfix upgrade to 6.4, is ready to download. The commit log from 6.4.0 to 6.4.1 is available if you want the details.
Aaron LI has made a whole lot of POSIXy updates to timeout(1), of which I think these two are the most informational, but there’s a bunch more if you look at the month. I’m also linking to it cause I didn’t know timeout(1) existed; never used it.
I’ve mentioned it before, but custom live images are possible. Related: mkisofs(8) is no longer needed to build.
This is going to seem minor, but it’s been annoying for a zillion years, and now it’s fixed: mail(1) now reflows text properly after a screen resize.
If you use TrueCrypt / tcplay, dm-crypt, or /dev/crypto on DragonFly, Michael Neumann wants to know.
I don’t have a good link for the SDF item; their mailing list doesn’t appear to have a public archive, or I haven’t found it. SSH will get you there faster anyway.
Dan Cross is looking to set up a hardware time service on DragonFly. It worked out, and there’s a patch coming to support this.
A ‘first try’ document for DragonFly.
If you’ve had trouble with the touchpad on your laptop, this recent update may help. Note that the commit lists some config changes needed to take advantage of the new features.
iwm(4) on DragonFly has been updated, mostly with patches from the FreeBSD version of the network driver.
/proc/self/exe now exists on DragonFly. This is probably most useful if you are porting software.
The mini-theme this week is all DragonFly. There’s been some commits lately to well-known tools so I’m going to gather them here.
It took almost 3 decades, but it’s much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with ping now.