DragonFly BSD

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DragonFly BSD 6.4

DragonFly version 6.4 is the next step in the 6.x release series. This version has hardware support for type-2 hypervisors with NVMM, an amdgpu driver, the experimental ability to remote-mount HAMMER2 volumes, and many other changes.

The details of all commits between the 6.2 and 6.4 releases are available in the associated commit messages for 6.4.0.

Big-ticket items

Details

Checksums

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MD5 (dfly-x86_64-6.4.0_REL.img.bz2) = 77069bbd10119b2a429f97060141518b
MD5 (dfly-x86_64-6.4.0_REL.iso) = ff4d500c7c75b1f88ca4237a6aa861d1
MD5 (dfly-x86_64-6.4.0_REL.iso.bz2) = 5dbf894d9120664a675030c475f25040

Upgrading

If you have an existing 5.x or 6.0 system and are running a generic kernel, the normal upgrade process, described below, will work.

Change your local /usr/src to 6.4:

cd /usr/src
git fetch origin
git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_6_4 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_6_4
git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_6_4
git pull

And then rebuild: (in /usr/src)

make build-all
make install-all

(reboot your system)

make initrd 

make initrd is optional for systems with unencrypted disks. See the initrd(7) man page for details.

Don't forget to upgrade your existing packages. 6.4 packages have already been built and are immediately available.

pkg update
pkg upgrade

If you get a lua error when upgrading pkg, copy over a new config file:

cp /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf

All other changes since prior release

Security Issues

Kernel

Filesystems

Networking

Graphics

Driver updates

Userland

Libraries

Miscellaneous

DSynth work

Various tools have been upgraded in the base system:

Compiler status

Package updates