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2014/06/04

DragonFly 3.8 released

The 3.8 release of DragonFly is out! See the release page for a changelog and check your local mirror for download first.

Binary dports packages for 3.8 have been built; they are available for download. (link goes to release versions of the packages. Future updates will be in ../LATEST)

For upgrades from 3.6: You can pull the 3.8 source normally with git:

cd /usr/src git fetch origin git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_3_8 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_3_8 git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_3_8

Assuming you are using an unmodified kernel, here’s the steps I usually do for an upgrade:

# make buildworld && make buildkernel && make installkernel && make installworld && make upgrade

After upgrading from 3.6, pkg (as designed) will download the appropriate 3.8 packages with pkg upgrade.

2014/05/31

DragonFly 3.8RC2 out

I put together a second release candidate for DragonFly 3.8, and it’s uploading now. The reason is that I goofed up the pkg build – Sascha Wildner has hopefully made that harder for me to screw up now.

Release is still planned for the 4th.

2014/05/29

Try a docking station

If you have DragonFly on a laptop, and a docking station for that laptop, it may be better supported now. (no, I don’t know exactly what acpi_dock does.)

2014/05/28

wpa_supplicant, hostapd updated

Alexandre Perrin contributed an upgrade of wpa_supplicant and hostapd for DragonFly, bringing it from 0.6.10 to version 2.1 – a 4-year jump.

2014/05/282014/05/26

DragonFly in GCC tests

Thanks to John Marino and people I don’t know the name of in the gcc project, DragonFly is now part of the gcc test suite.

“What about clang?” you say? We’re not picky; DragonFly works with either.

2014/05/272014/05/26

DragonFly 3.8 release candidate available

I’ve branched DragonFly 3.8, and tagged a release candidate. Please try the release candidate if you can. I have links in my post to users@/kernel@. Don’t forget the remaining issues! Planned release date is June 4th.

2014/05/23

DragonFly, PostgreSQL, PGCon, slides

The slides from Francois Tigeot’s talk about benchmarking DragonFly with PostgreSQL are now online – link is to a PDF.

2014/05/232014/05/24

Hammer in BSD Magazine

The May BSD Magazine is out, and Siju George has written an article about using Hammer on DragonFly. It’s a free download to read.

(link fixed)

2014/05/21

DragonFly 3.8, coming up

We’re due for the next release of DragonFly. I’ve posted the two-week warning to kernel@. As I noted in that post, please look at the list of issues for the release and see what you can close.

2014/05/21

DragonFly, PostgreSQL, PGCon

Francois Tigeot is giving a talk tomorrow on benchmarking DragonFly using PostgreSQL, at PGCon 2014. PGCon is the PostgreSQL convention happening immediately after BSDCan in the same location, in case you didn’t know already.

2014/05/192014/05/21

Newest committer: Imre Vadasz

Imre Vadasz is our newest DragonFly committer. Welcome, Imre!

2014/05/162014/05/16

Portmaster tip: you are using the new version

Portmaster, if you install it, tells you to upgrade your packages. If you are on DragonFly, you are already upgraded.

2014/05/15

ral(4) updates

Sascha Wildner has updated ral(4) with support for RT2700/2800/3090 chipsets. If you have one of these, please try it out – these are untested.

2014/05/13

GSI CPU Autoselection

Sepherosa Ziehau has enabled GSI target CPU auto selection, by default, on x86_64. He says to let him know if there’s problems. I’m not sure what form the problems would take, cause I’m not sure what this does.

2014/05/12

Atheros updates for sleep

Matthew Dillon brought in Adrian Chadd’s sleep state changes for the ath(4) driver from FreeBSD to DragonFly; you may see reduced power usage if you have the appropriate hardware.

2014/05/12

Updates for libpcap, file

libpcap has been updated in DragonFly by Matthew Dillon, and file has been updated by Peter Avalos.

2014/05/082014/05/08

Confluence on DragonFly: works, sometimes

I’ve seen Atlassian Confluence, a Java-based wiki program, in a few places. Atlassian apparently offers their software at a discount (free?) to qualified open source projects. I set up Confluence 5.4 on DragonFly as a test run, and it generally worked. That’s great! I tried to set up version 5.5, and it will not start.

May 08, 2014 7:24:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase startInternal
SEVERE: A child container failed during start
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.InternalError: platform not recognized
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)

This is annoying. DragonFly (or any BSD) is not supported by Atlassian for Confluence, so it’s not a surprise… but I was so close! Their product has a very nice interface and I was planning to replace Mediawiki at my workplace with it, for some internal documentation. This FreeBSD bug report is the closest fix I can find, but it’s old enough it shouldn’t matter now.

2014/05/05

DragonFly network performance

Wojciech Puchar noted with some surprise that DragonFly uses less CPU than expected for high-packet-rate traffic. This has been going on for a while, and apparently Sepherosa Ziehau has even more improvements planned.

2014/05/022014/05/02

A recurring DragonFly pattern: hey, this is fast!

The reaction I have heard a number of times from new DragonFly users: hey, this runs really fast, even when I try to load it down!

2014/05/02

Goodbye, ATM

ATM support is gone in DragonFly, and frankly, I’m surprised it was still there.