1 # DragonFly Release 2.10
2 ## 25 April 2011 (2.10.1)
4 The DragonFly 2.10 release is here!
8 **Hardware and multiprocessor support** - This release supports a much larger variety of hardware and multiprocessor systems than previous releases, thanks to updates of ACPI and APIC support.
10 **Hammer Deduplication** - Hammer volumes can now deduplicate volumes overnight in a batch process and during live operation. The 'hammer dedup-simulate' command can be used to estimate space savings for existing data.
12 **Packet Filter (pf)** - Pf was updated to a version based upon OpenBSD 4.4. The previous version of pf in DragonFly was based on OpenBSD 4.2.
14 **Compiler updates** - DragonFly now uses gcc 4.4 as the default system compiler, and is the first BSD to take that step.
16 *New bridging functionality** - The bridging system has been rewritten. Multiple interfaces on a single system can be bound together transparently under a single virtual MAC address, and bandwidth aggregated to that new interface.
18 **MP Performance** - The MPLOCK (the primary lock, that when held ensures only a single cpu is operating within the kernel) has been removed from every area except the VM system. is one of the few non-academic operating systems to use a primary sychronization mechanism that is not a blocking mutex
20 **Overall Performance** - DragonFly now offers significant performance gains over previous releases, especially for machines using AHCI or implementing swapcache(8).
24 Three release options are now available for 32-bit as well as for 64-bit.
26 * An ISO, to be burned to a physical cd or used as an image to install a virtual machine.
27 * A bootable USB disk-key image (minimum 1G USB stick needed)
28 * A GUI bootable USB disk-key image with a full X environment (4G USB stick needed).
30 The release ISO images should be available on most of the [[mirrors|mirrors]]. If the ISO is not available on a certain mirror, please try another one or download it from the DragonFly master site. Each image is in the "Live CD" format, meaning that it boots into a running and fully functional DragonFly system, which can be used for testing or system recovery tasks as well as installation
40 We offer roughly 10,000 pre-built [pkgsrc](http://www.pkgsrc.org) packages for this release. The [pkg_radd(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_radd§ion=ANY) utility may be used to download pre-built binary packages. The path can be overridden by setting BINPKG_BASE in `/etc/pkg_radd.conf`.
42 To get a list of all packages, let [pkg_search(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_search§ion=ANY) download the summary file for that release:
46 We supply a Makefile in `/usr` to track the pkgsrc tree and we supply a Git mirror of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS repo at `git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrcv2.git`. We recommend that users use it, instead of pulling from NetBSD with CVS. Our Git mirror is updated several times a day.
48 ## DragonFly 2.10 Special Installation and Upgrade Notes
50 **Using deduplication** - Hammer volumes need to be upgraded to version 5 to use deduplication. The 'hammer version-upgrade <filesystem> <version>' command will perform this in-place.
52 ** APIC_IO** - The APIC_IO kernel option is no longer needed.
54 **VirtualBox, Virtual PC, and VMWare users** - Unless your virtual hard disk is 50G or larger, we recommend doing a UFS install and not the default HAMMER install. We also recommend installing from the CD ISO and not the GUI IMG. A more serious installation should use HAMMER with at least a 50G disk image and can install from the GUI IMG.
56 **Virtual PC users** - Virtual PC does not supply serial numbers for the virtual disks. The system may need to be manually directed in the boot loader if the disk identifier changes. (Hit ? in the boot loader for a list of available volumes.)
58 ## DragonFly 2.10 Release Notes
60 ### Release Improvements
63 * Update of pf from OpenBSD 4.2 to 4.4, keeping DragonFly specific additions (support for pickups and fairq).
64 * mlockall(2)/munlockall(2) imported from FreeBSD
67 > ### Hardware changes (non-networking)
68 * mfi(4) RAID driver and mfiutil(8) configuration tool added.
73 > ### Hardware changes (networking)
74 * Wireless cards utilizing the following drivers are supported in this release: ath, iwi, iwn, ral, wi, wpi. (update me)
75 * The following drivers have not been ported and will not yet work: acx, an, bwi, ndis, rtw, rum, ural. (update me)
77 > ### New Multiprocessor Safe Work
82 > ### Userland changes
83 * libcrypt now supports sha256/512
87 > ### x86_64-specific changes
88 * 64-bit systems now can support up to 63 CPUs and 512G of RAM
95 > ### Contributed Software
96 * Shipping with pkgsrc-2011Q1 built packages.
97 * Code from DragonFly's participation in Google Code-In 2011
98 * Updated ldns to 1.6.7
99 * Updated libarchive to 2.8.4
100 * Updated zlib to 1.2.5
101 * Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.0d
102 * Updated OpenSSH to -5.8p1
103 * Updated file to 5.05
104 * Updated zoneinfo to tzdata2011g
105 * Updated binutils to 2.21
106 * Updated acpica to 20110211
107 * Updated mdocml to 1.10.9
113 >### Security related
114 * A security issue in OpenSSL (CVE-2011-0014) was fixed.