Yao Ge has created a new DragonFly mirror in Nanjing, China. It’s on the mirrors page too.
If you have a TP-Link TL-WN722N v2 wireless adapter, you are in luck.
Elements of dsynth, the mass package builder for DragonFly, are now appearing in the base system. It looks like this is most helpful for building packages as part of the base install, but there might be other applications.
This is mostly an ID change, but the Mercusys MW150US USB wifi adapter is now supported in DragonFly.
You can now run devfs(5) and procfs(5) in a jailed environment for DragonFly. As the commit message says, it’s for dsynth but I imagine this may be good for other applications.
If you are running bleeding-edge DragonFly, this recent struct change will require a kernel and world rebuild. If you are running the release, it doesn’t affect you.
New to the DragonFly kernel: jail-like capability restrictions, that may not require a jail to use.
If you are running a headless DragonFly system, you may find this new ‘ifexists’ option for ttys helpful.
Hardening scripts for BSD. There should be a DragonFly-specific one eventually.
I may have missed this if it’s been committed, but if you have a Mercusys MW150US, aka a RealTek USB wifi dongle, there’s a patch to support it in Dragonfly.
Tomohiro Kusumi’s offline HAMMER2 support continues, with ‘setcheck’ (check code) and ‘setcomp’ (compression type) support. See the hammer2(8) man page for what those options do.
You can now create, delete, and snapshot PFS on HAMMER2 even when the drive isn’t mounted; Tomohiro has added offline support.
the nvme(4) driver now prints a detailed message about I/O errors. It’s great that it does that, hope you never see it.
You can now clean up, grow, and destroy HAMMER2 volumes, even when they are not mounted. There’s also an emergency mode, though I’m not clear on when you’d invoke it.
For some reason smbios device support always gave me trouble on every laptop I worked on for the 2000s. So, this support for smbios identification on EFI-only boots is good news to me.
If you absolutely, must shut up your console, kern.kprintf_logging=0.
backlight, both the generic backlight driver and control tool, has been ported to DragonFly.
TeX Live 2023 is available on DragonFly.