3 * Version 4.4.0 released 02 Dec 2015.
5 Version 4.4 of DragonFly brings additional updates to i915 and Radeon support, the new gold linker,
7 The details of all commits between the 4.0 and 4.2 branches are available in the associated commit messages for [4.4RC](http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2015-November/458818.html) and [4.4.0](http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2015-June/418867.html).
11 ### Improved graphics support
13 The radeon and i915 drivers are now updated to match the versions found with the Linux 3.18 kernel.
17 DragonFly now supports a wide range of locales, throughout the system. This will be of most interest to non-U.S. users.
21 DragonFly now uses the gold linker by default.
24 ## Changes since DragonFly 4.2
28 * libc is now versioned
30 * Improved CPU power saving settings
34 * Generally updated; see i915 and radeon sections for details
35 * KMS is on by default; the console is accelerated
36 * Panel Self Refresh is available
37 * i915, radeon: both match Linux kernel 3.18
38 * i915 supports ValleyView, Cherryview and Broadwell CPUs
42 * Realtek 8168H support in re(4)
44 * rtadvd updated, rtadvctl added
45 * Asynchronous UDP connections, for handling much greater load
46 * New larger TCP starting window, for high-latency connections
47 * Kernel nmbcluster values are live-adjustable, for extreme traffic
51 * MIDI support has been readded
52 * dm-delay and dm-flakey have been added to the device mapper
58 ### Various tools have been upgraded in the base system:
60 * nvi2 updated to version 2.1.3
61 * libexecinfo added (synced from FreeBSD)
62 * libm replaced with OpenBSD version
63 * openssl updated to 1.0.1p
65 * libedit updated to version 2015-03-25
66 * binutils updated to 2.25.1
67 * grep updated to 2.22
68 * tcsh updated to 6.19.00
69 * libdialog updated to v1.2-20150920
70 * (tn)ftp updated to '10 OCT 2015'
72 * acpica updated to 20150717
74 ### Removed from the base system:
79 ### HAMMER improvements
81 * Many, many cleanups and fixes to Hammer1, thanks to Tomohiro Kusumi
83 ### Other improvements
89 New in this release: Hammer2 supports root mounts, and live dedup. Hammer2 filesystems can be set up, for single-host testing. The WANT_HAMMER2 option has to be added to the kernel to create Hammer2 filesystems. Do not experiment with it unless you have data you can lose!