Matthew Dillon has two separate updates on the status of the HAMMER filesystem, including some inital benchmarks.
Peter Avalos has updated bzip2 to version 1.0.5, which fixes the Denial of Service issue described in CVE-2008-1372.
Matthew Dillon posted a HEADS UP: that the vm_page structure has changed. This will probably not affect you unless you are working in the kernel. He didn’t specify in the message, but it’s probably a good idea to do a full buildworld/buildkernel if you’re running bleeding edge code.
Matthew Dillon commited significant changes to pf in DragonFly; his commit message describes the differences and advantages.
(Yes, I’m running behind on news. Yes, there’s a lot. We’re drinking from the firehose these days.)
Matthias Schmidt has set up (in CVS) a page for new items for the 2.0 release of DragonFly. If you’re committing something big to DragonFly, write it down there. Consistent use will give us a pre-prepared list for the actual release, which will probably be late summer.
cpdup will now perform multiple copies at a time over a network link, from changes by Matthew Dillon. How much more efficient is cpdup with these changes? If someone wants a project, a cpdup benchmark wouldn’t be a bad thing…
Hasso Tepper has made a ginormous update to Citrus, an API for character conversion, syncing it with NetBSD.
Peter Avalos has kindly updated OpenSSH to the newest release, 5.0p1. This version has one security fix – the major version number bump is only because the previous release was 4.9.
Hasso Tepper has committed a large update to DRM, the operating system-specific part of the X Direct Rendering Infrastructure, using a snapshot from January. The code it’s replacing is much older, as I recall.
Sepherosa Ziehau has added a packet generator to DragonFly that can apparently pump out a lot of data.
Two minor changes: Matthew Dillon has brought in updates for disk support (NATA) from FreeBSD, and Sascha Wildner has updated the timezone database. I never realized timezone information fluctuated so much.
Dave Hayes has committed changes that allow the local version of the installer (i.e. the one in CVS) to be used when building a release CD.
Matthew Dillon has committed some improvements to DragonFly’s virtual kernel mechanism, possibly prompted by a discussion of it on freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org.
Peter Avalos has updated bzip2 to fix issue CVE-2008-1372.
Hasso Tepper has updated DragonFly’s Bluetooth stack with code from OpenBSD (and originally from NetBSD, if I understand correctly.)
Update: corrected because I managed to invert just about everything in that post.
Hasso Tepper has fixed an overflow in ppp, from OpenBSD errata 2008-009.
Sascha Wildner has added a way to get a new list of PCI IDs added to the system; for those who don’t know, these lists are how the system knows what names to use for devices detected and listed in dmesg.
Matthias Schmidt has updated pkg_search with a ‘-s’ option, which provides the long description of the item(s) found in the search.
Matthias Schmidt and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert have put together ‘dma’, a local mail delivery agent that can replace sendmail for most common needs, with the benefit of being simpler and smaller. It’s already in the system.