1 # DragonFly Release 2.6
2 ## 5 April 2010 (2.6.1)
4 The DragonFly 2.6 release is here!
6 Three release options are now available for 32-bit: Our bare-bones CD ISO, a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (minimum 1G USB stick needed), and a gui bootable USB disk-key image with a full X environment. The gui USB image replaces the DVD ISO image we has in the previous release to work around issues with DVDs simply being too slow to boot an X environment from.
8 Two release options are available for 64-bit: Our base-bones CD ISO and our bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image. The 64-bit release is now fully supported.
12 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.
17 * MD5 (dfly-i386-2.6.1_REL.img.bz2) = 661a41dab81b6870eda6431f95e6905f
18 * MD5 (dfly-i386-2.6.1_REL.iso.bz2) = e7101da11ad8b9b7c1a0da53a60efd48
19 * MD5 (dfly-gui-i386-2.6.1_REL.img.bz2) =
20 * MD5 (dfly-x86_64-2.6.1_REL.img.bz2) = b086e6be72a925c1b9a7bfe0d4a8254b
21 * MD5 (dfly-x86_64-2.6.1_REL.iso.bz2) = d6e1735b20c991771ac19a90776b97f3
25 We offer over 8000 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`.
27 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:
31 We supply a Makefile in /usr to track the pkgsrc tree. We also supply a GIT mirror of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS repo as
32 well as the pkgsrc/wip (work in progress) repo at git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrc.git and we recommend that
33 users use it instead of pulling from NetBSD with CVS. Our GIT mirror is updated four times a day.
35 ## DragonFly 2.6.x Special Installation and Upgrade Notes
37 **VirtualBox and VMWare users** - Unless your virtual hard disk is 50G or larger we recommend
38 doing a UFS install and not the default HAMMER install. We also recommend installing from the CD ISO
39 and not the DVD ISO. The DVD ISO HAMMER install has bugs (see [[Known Release Issues|issues24]]).
41 ## DragonFly 2.6.1 Release Notes
43 ### Release Improvements
46 * Ported tmpfs (efficient memory filesystem) from NetBSD
47 * Added support for minidumps
48 * Added swapcache support for SSDs
49 * Ported POSIX Message Queues from NetBSD (Google Summer of Code Project).
50 * Updated Linuxulator (now runs java, flash,...) for pc32
51 * fixed vinum root mounts
52 * Added watchdog framework (compatible with watchdogd(8))
53 * Added gpio framework
54 * Ported minidumps from FreeBSD (enabled by default)
55 * Added vkernel64 (64-bit vkernels - experimental)
56 * Added hotplug pseudo-device
57 * Removed msfbufs and reimplemented sfbufs as a consumer of the newly added lwbufs (lightweight buffers)
59 * Updated opencrypto from FreeBSD-current
60 * Updated ACPI from FreeBSD 7.2
61 * Updated CPU initialization code From FreeBSD
64 * Updated to HAMMER version 4
65 * snapshot settings and snapstops moved out of <fs>/snapshots and into meta-data
66 * REDO generation and recovery added to support fast fsync
67 * Extended 'hammer snapls' output to print mountpoints and snapshot notes.
68 * 'hammer viconfig' takes editor preference into account now
71 > ### Hardware changes (non-networking)
72 * uchcom(4): The driver for WinChipHead CH341/CH340 is now working stable
73 * glxsb(4): The driver has been imported from FreeBSD
74 * hifn(4): The driver has been fixed to work with updated opencrypto
75 * cs5536: Added support for watchdog and gpio on this chip
76 * nsclpcsio(4): The driver has been imported from OpenBSD
77 * Geode LX: Enable identification and features of this CPU
78 * New aibs(4) driver for ASUSTeK AI Booster ACPI ATK0110 voltage, temperature and fan sensors
79 * New kate(4) and km(4) drivers for AMD Family 0Fh, 10h and 11h AMD64 temperature sensors
80 * New aps(4) driver for ThinkPad Active Protection System accelerometer
81 * New wbsio(4) driver for Winbond LPC Super I/O attachment of lm(4) on any ISA port
83 > ### Hardware changes (networking)
84 * Imported the alc(4) driver for Atheros AR8131/AR8132 NICs
85 * Imported the e1000(4) driver from FreeBSD for Intel Pro/1000 NICs
87 > ### Userland changes
88 * null mounts now accept -o update
89 * awk(1): increased input field separator width to handle extended regexps.
90 * cpdup(1): added -VV option to verify file's contents and ignore mtime entirely.
91 * mount_nfs(8):rdirplus is now the default
92 * periodic(8) security now also reports pkgsrc vulnerabilities
93 * watchdogd: import from OpenBSD
94 * hotplugd(8): import from OpenBSD
96 > ### amd64 related changes
97 * amd64 has been renamed to x86_64
100 * The T/TCP extension is no longer supported
102 > ### Contributed Software
103 * Updated BIND to 9.5.2-P3 incl. DNSSEC support available by default
104 * Updated SENDMAIL to 8.14.4
105 * Updated wpa_supplicant to 0.6.10
106 * Updated hostapd to 0.6.10
107 * Updated groff to 1.20.1
108 * Updated file to 5.04
109 * Updated ncurses to 5.7
110 * Updated top to 3.8beta1 including DragonFly specific patches
111 * Updated less to 436
112 * Updated openssh to 5.3p1 (with HPN patch)
113 * Updated gcc 4.4 to 4.4.2
114 * Added binutils 2.20
115 * Added cryptodev support to OpenSSL
117 >### Security related
118 * ssh server: change defaults for new installations to disallow plain text passwords and allow root login via public key
120 >### General Improvements