Something that is a very good idea: When running 1.10 or later, it will be possible to cd to /usr and update DragonFly source or pkgsrc files using only a make command.
If no problems are found, this release candidate will turn into the release, this weekend.
The latest BSDTalk is with William Hurley, who is the impressively titled Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software.
Clean out your /var/cache/fontconfig the next time you upgrade the fontconfig package.
Thomas E. Spanjaard has a kernel module that reads temperatures from recent Intel CPUs; read his post for details on how to get it working. It’s not yet in the source tree.
The 1.10 release looks likely to be this weekend, due to a number of bug squashings, and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert reports a successful build of pkgsrc binary packages for 1.10 is complete.