Thanks to Daniel Fojt, ldns in DragonFly is updated to 1.7.1. This time, I do have a changelog link.
It’s a minor update, but I have to point it out because my muscle memory still won’t let go of nslookup,
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, ldns in DragonFly is updated to 1.7.1. This time, I do have a changelog link.
It’s a minor update, but I have to point it out because my muscle memory still won’t let go of nslookup,
Francois Tigeot has updated the DRM driver in DragonFly to match what’s in Linux kernel 4.10.17. What’s that change? A few minutes of poking about doesn’t find a granular enough changelog.
Not Direct Memory Access, but the DragonFly Mail Agent, born from a desire to replace larger mail transfer agents. It has its own repository, and the upgrade came from there back into DragonFly.
I am entertained by the notion that adventure(6), backgammon(6), battlestar(6), hack(6) and trek(6) can still get updates. I did not know, incidentally, that sendmail and trek share an author.
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, awk(1) has jumped from the 2012 version in DragonFly, to the 2020 version. The commit message shows the highlights so you don’t have to read through the whole history. Given that DragonFly’s awk is the One True awk, that eight years are only a small percentage of the overall history.
Aaron LI has updated head(1) and tail(1) in DragonFly – new switches for head, a new switch for tail, and tac.
I deliberately made the headline obscure for fun. Anyway, the most recent bugfix release for dhcpcd, 9.1.2, happens to set capiscum/pledge-style privilege separation for the program – without requiring those technologies to be built into the system.
shutdown(8) and reboot(8) have some changes, which I find entertaining: “harder to kill“.
DragonFly’s sysclock_t is now a 64-bit value. This is a dramatic change, but should be invisible to userland. Meaning, you don’t have to recompile world/update packages/etc. It’s interesting but not eventful.
The first version of HAMMER took automatic snapshots, set within the config for each filesystem. HAMMER2 now also takes automatic snapshots, via periodic(8) like most every repeating task on your DragonFly system.
HAMMER2 just became a little more DWIM: the pfs-list and pfs-delete directives will now look across all mounted filesystems, not just the current directory’s mount path. pfs-delete won’t delete any filesystem name that appears in more than one place, though.
DragonFly’s patch(1) is now at 2.0-12u11. I mention this not because it’s a dramatic change but because it’s a basic tool. Also, a benefit from our new committer.
Updates to third-party utilities happen often in DragonFly, and I don’t often link because they may not affect users much – but I’m noting a change to xargs(1) cause given what xargs does, any mistake you make will be repeated many times.
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, wpa_supplicant(8) in DragonFly jumped from version 2.1 to 2.9. There’s a nice changelog for the curious.
Thanks to Aaron LI and Daniel Fojt, libpcap and tcpdump in DragonFly have been updated. The vendor does The Right Thing and provides easy-to-find changelogs for both.