1 # DragonFly Release 2.4 - XXX $date
3 The DragonFly 2.4 release is here! XXX release text here
5 Three release options are now available: Our bare-bones CD ISO, a DVD ISO which includes a fully operational X environment, and a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (less than XXX M).
9 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 FTP server.
13 * MD5 (dfly-2.2.0_REL.iso) =
14 * MD5 (dfly-gui-2.2.0_REL.iso) =
15 * MD5 (dfly-img-2.2.0_REL.img) =
16 * MD5 (dfly-2.2.0_REL.iso.gz) =
17 * MD5 (dfly-gui-2.2.0_REL.iso.gz) =
18 * MD5 (dfly-img-2.2.0_REL.img.gz) =
22 We offer over XXXX 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. By default this script will query the main package site for a random redirect to one of our mirrors. The path can be overridden by setting BINPKG_SITES in /etc/settings.conf.
24 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:
28 ## DragonFly 2.4.0 Release Notes
30 ### Release Improvements
35 * Bring in <tt>BUS_DMA_COULD_BOUNCE</tt> flag from FreeBSD.
36 * usched_set: Add USCHED_CPU_GET for retrieving the current CPU
37 * msdos(5): Fixed a number of bugs
38 * Add disklabel64 UFS + HAMMER boot support (was previously just HAMMER boot support)
39 * Sync DRM code with FreeBSD trunk rev 190433.
40 * Fix an IPI messaging lockup which can occur while in DDB.
41 * vkernel(7): Fix entry into ddb when running a SMP vkernel. Fixes stop/cont
42 * vkernel(7): Fix startup race with I/O cothread support.
43 * vkernel(7): Fix some issues - enable ithread preemption, races, and more.
44 * vkernel(7): Fix races in stopsig() and ipisig().
45 * Fix permissions check for utimes() - owner can call even if u-w.
46 * Reimplemented the revoke code.
47 * Replace the old BSD malloc code with a port of our slab allocator.
48 * Fix various clang compile issues
50 * Add lapic timer and enable it by default.
51 * Add kernel-layer support for chflags checks, remove (most) from the VFS layer.
55 * Fix improper cred checks for utimes()
56 * Return shorter-form softlinks "@@-1:%05d" when appropriate.
57 * Add a B-Tree rebalancing feature.
58 * Fix edge case in mirroring code.
59 * Better CRC handling, bad-file handling.
60 * Fix sticky bit directory handling for deletions.
61 * Refactor merged search function to try to avoid missed entries.
62 * Limit recursion for long directory chains, update mtime/ctime.
66 * cxm(4): Add new driver for Hauppauge PVR-250/350 video capture cards (from FreeBSD).
67 * ath(4): Add open source HAL code (from FreeBSD) and make it possible to build it into the kernel.
71 * em(4): Synced with Intel's em-6.9.6 (from FreeBSD).
72 * emx(4): Copy of em(4) which supports only 8257{1,2,3} parts.
73 * iwi(4): Upgrade to use 3.0 firmware and use firmware(9) API to load firmware.
74 * vke(4): Convert from kqueue API to cothread API.
75 * tap(4): Add ifclone support
76 * Turn on adaptive MPSAFE for network threads, and MPSAFE for IP and ARP
77 * RSS: Add Toeplitz hash function
78 * Split ifnet serializer.
79 * Add ifpoll, which support hardware TX/RX queues based polling.
83 * Fix a huge number of compiler warnings for various userland utilities.
84 * installer: Fix the bug when used from console with the LiveDVD.
85 * installer: Fixed various bugs and cleaned the code.
86 * expr(1): Add support for -- as required by POSIX
87 * ifconfig(8): Add static ARP support
88 * cpdup(1): Allow uid/gid/flags changes to fail if running as user
89 * pax(1): Add a -O option: force one volume (from NetBSD)
90 * battd(8): Fix some errors and improve the man page
91 * magic(3): Fix program name extraction from core dumps.
92 * env(1): unbreak build of 2.2 release branch under HEAD
93 * telnetd(8): Apply FreeBSD-SA-09:05.telnet - fix environment based code execution vulnerability
94 * libkvm: Add support for accessing a running vkernel's memory by reading its /proc/$pid/mem file.
95 * ncal(1): Highlight current day (from FreeBSD)
96 * libfetch(3): Synced with FreeBSD.
97 * fetch(1): Synced with FreeBSD.
98 * window(1): Synced with NetBSD.
99 * vkentd(8): Add features, allow IP address to be set in unsecure mode, allow address 0.
100 * etc/rc.d/sendmail: Actually execute sendmail_precmd().
101 * libc: Synced various parts with FreeBSD and NetBSD.
102 * libc: Add some new system calls.
103 * libc: Apply FreeBSD-SA-09:07.libc - fix information leak in db(3)
104 * syslogd(8): Sync with FreeBSD
105 * undo(1): Fix @@ formatting used by undo -ad and fix duplicate test
106 * Use a Red-Black tree to track HAMMER TIDs
107 * It can now detect all prior replacements of a file
108 * Add an indexing feature to the -t option
109 * hammer(8): Allow -b to specify bytes per second if no suffix is supplied
110 * Extract PFS null mounts from anywhere in the filesystem, instead of just from the /pfs subdirectory.
111 * Change B-Tree, inodes, and dir reblocking params, add rebalance
113 ### amd64 related changes
115 * Make signals operational, fix reg mappings, fix %fs management, trace
116 * More signal handler work. Signals now appear to work..
117 * Fixes to make dynamic binaries run.
118 * First steps towards 64-bit pmap.
119 * Fix a huge number of compiler warnings for various userland utilities.
120 * Misc fixes for cross-building amd64.
121 * Add a build system for amd64 build/test environments
125 * iwicontrol(8) was removed. The iwi(4) firmware is now loaded automatically.
127 ### Contributed Software
129 * Update OpenSSH to version .
130 * Update OpenSSL to version 0.9.8k.
131 * Sync zoneinfo database with tzdata2009h.