Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has updated the example cvsup files; the new target names (‘dragonfly-‘ prefix) have been available for a long time already, so you probably only need an update if you are using a custom cvsup file.
Matthew Dillon has added some sysctls that can help secure your machine; the commit message for both contains a more in-depth explanation.
Sepherosa Ziehau has added support for RealTek RTL8150 USB ethernet devices; taken in part from FreeBSD’s version.
Matthew Dillon just added a number of bugfixes to the release verion of DragonFly (1.2.5). If you have a SMP machine running 1.2.5, he’d appreciate a test before we go to 1.2.6.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has updated gcc to version 4.0.1.
If you want to build the system using gcc version 4, you must put WANT_GCC40=yes into make.conf and rebuild your system. Then, rebuild again with the environment variable CCVER set to ‘gcc40’.
The first build builds gcc4 using your existing compiler; the second uses it during the build. I have not done this myself, so be careful.
Hot on the neels of the 1.19.1 update, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has updated groff to groff 1.19.2. Ooh, the excitement of typesetting languages!
Joerg Sonnenberger has added the just-released OpenSSH version 4.2
Matthew Dillon made a number of journaling-related commits today; in one of them, he included an extended writeup of some of the problems encountered when dealing with multiple transactions forwards – and backwards – in time.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has updated groff to version 1.19.1
Jeffrey Hsu has committed his new spinlock implementation – the commit message has a short explanation of how it was implemented.
A big welcome to our two newest DragonFly committers: Sepherosa Ziehau and Noritoshi Demizu. Yep, those are names I’ll have to cut and paste.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has upgraded texinfo to version 4.8.
Matthew Dillon committed the remaining large portion of kernel work for journaling; he followed up with some comments on remaining userland work.
David Rhodus has updated the pkg_add command to point to http://www.fireflybsd.com/packages, where the binary builds live. This works if you’re running the latest code; however, you will need to use the full URL for a given package if you’re using 1.2.x Release, as it still looks to the old location.
Joerg Sonnenberger has updated gcc to version 3.4.5.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert committed a fix to 1.2-RELEASE for the recent zlib security problem.
Gregory Neil Shapiro just updated sendmail to 8.13.4, which means it runs natively on DragonFly. (It no longer assumes FreeBSD.) He posted a list of changes.
Joerg Sonnenberger has updated zlib to version 1.2.3, for good reason.
Stream Control Transmission Protocol has been added by Eirik Nygaard; he lists some ways to test it out.
Matthew Dillon’s latest journaling commit details an interesting new feature: changing the data destination “midstream”.