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.

Big-ticket items

6.4.1 fixes a number of small, long-standing issues, including:

6.4.2 fixes more long-standing issues:

Details

Checksums

MD5 (dfly-x86_64-6.4.2_REL.img) = a23812ca816df3de1e3eab5995e29025
MD5 (dfly-x86_64-6.4.2_REL.iso) = fdab09ac37cf427b8c01de5d54bfd1d7
MD5 (dfly-x86_64-6.4.2_REL.img.bz2) = d321c363be7653525049c501ecf16e37
MD5 (dfly-x86_64-6.4.2_REL.iso.bz2) = 906095312c4a4ac0577fb91d5eb87033

Upgrading

If you have an existing 5.x or 6.x 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

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