DragonFly BSD

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DragonFly BSD 5.2

DragonFly version 5.2 brings Meltdown/Spectre mitigation, significant improvements to HAMMER2, ipfw, and graphics acceleration. 5.2.1 includes a fix for CVE-2018-8897, and 5.2.2 includes a fix for the LazyFP bug, CVE-2018-3665.

The details of all commits between the 5.0 and 5.2 branches are available in the associated commit messages for 5.2.0rc, 5.2.0, 5.2.1, and 5.2.2.

Big-ticket items

Meltdown and Spectre mitigation support

HAMMER2

ipfw Updates

Improved graphics support

Details

Checksums

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Upgrading

If you have an existing 5.0.x system and are running a generic kernel, the normal upgrade process, described below, will work.

Change your local /usr/src to 5.2:

cd /usr/src
git fetch origin
git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_5_2 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_5_2
git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_5_2
git pull

And then rebuild: (in /usr/src )

make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
make upgrade

Don't forget to upgrade your existing packages. 5.2 packages have already been built and are immediately available.

pkg upgrade

All changes since DragonFly 5.0

Kernel

Networking

Other drivers

Userland

Various tools have been upgraded in the base system:

Hammer1 Changes

Hammer2 Changes

Compiler status

Package updates

64-bit status