Colin Percival is looking for donations to support his work over the summer handling security issues for FreeBSD, Portsnap, and FreeBSD Update. He’s very close to meeting the goal.
Matthew Dillon has removed lockmgr()’s interlock, which apparently has diverged in form between the different BSDs over the years.
With some final changes, version 1.4.4 is available now. This is the recommended download/update for everyone. (Including me, so I’ll have to update tonight.)
Jeffrey Hsu has fixed a bridging security issue first seen in NetBSD.
If you’ve got an hour or two, check out the many organizations participating in the Google Summer of Code. The idea lists have a lot of neat material.
This week on UnixReview.com has a lot more content than usual:
Examining the Updated Security+ Certification - Part One, Shell Corner: Graphing Perl's Regular Expressions,
Security: Unpatched and Doing Fine?,
and the book reviews Migrating to IPv6 and Cryptography in the Database
Matthew Dillon’s merged a heap of bugfixes from the current code back into the 1.4 release branch; the update to 1.4.4 won’t happen until Friday, however.
The wiki now has an Italian version of the FAQ.
Alex Burke has a writeup of his experiences installing DragonFly to a third partition.
Sepherosa Ziehau has an experimental conversion of 802.11 support found in FreeBSD 6
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Thomas Schlesinger has written a howto on the wiki for setting up a ipw2200 network adapter.
Adrian Nida has a huge patch for the Handbook, removing outdated ports info and replacing it with pkgsrc mentions. He’s looking for feedback, and there’s already some.
Also, Jeremy C. Reed has improvements to the X11 documentation in the handbook for review.
If you speak a language other than English, Trevor Kendall wants you to check out and sync the wiki FAQs.
Matthew Dillon has moved the Preview release to 1.5.3, as it’s stable enough for more testing. In addition, Release is moving to 1.4.4 in about a week to incorporate recent fixes; details are in his post.
It’s open! We need to incorporate a DragonFly nonprofit to be involved, at some point. (Thanks, Christian Sturm)
Apparently there’s a good number of BSD-based jobs out there. These examples are based on NetBSD, but there’s surely more. (From Hubert Feyrer and others)
Matthew Dillon has two comments on some small things that are absolutely essential: how to reach the CDROM and how to really back up existing partitions before installing DragonFly.
Thomas Schlesinger is trying to get his ipw2200 wireless connection to work. The pkgsrc package sysutils/iwi_firmware will do it, though it’s not packaged as a binary, so there’s some trickery to install.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s bulk builds of pkgsrc are showing that almost everything in pkgsrc now builds on DragonFly.  That’s 92% complete.
I can’t find the original post, but apparently pkg_install no longer complains about minor changes in system name, which can affect anyone installing binary packages.