# DragonFly Release 2.8
## x yyyy 20xx (2.8)

The DragonFly 2.8 release is here!

Wait, no it's not!  This is a page set up for work done on the 2.7 development branch, so that we can write it down as it happens.  When 2.8 is rolled, we'll use this page for the release.

## Availability

[[mirrors|mirrors]]

### MD5 sums

* foo
* bar 

### pkgsrc packages

We offer thousands of 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&section=ANY) utility may be used to download pre-built binary packages.  The path can be overridden by setting BINPKG_SITES in `/etc/settings.conf`.

To get a list of all packages, let [pkg_search(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_search&section=ANY) download the summary file for that release:

    # pkg_search -d

We supply a Makefile in /usr to track the pkgsrc tree.  We also supply a Git mirror of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS repo as
well as the pkgsrc/wip (work in progress) repo at git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrc.git.  We recommend that
users use it, instead of pulling from NetBSD with CVS.  Our Git mirror is updated four times a day.

## DragonFly 2.6.x Special Installation and Upgrade Notes

**BIND removal** - BIND is no longer in the base system.  If you are using BIND or any of the associated utilities (host, nslookup, etc.), this method will allow you to transition to the version in pkgsrc:

>     # cd /usr/pksrc/net/bind96; 
>     # bmake all install clean
>     # ln -s /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/named9 /etc/rc.d/
>     # /etc/rc.d/named stop
>
>edit /etc/rc.conf, and  remove 
>
>     named_enable="YES"
>
>then add
>
>     named9_enable="YES"
>     named_chrootdir="/etc/namedb"
>     named_flags="-c named.conf"
>
>     # chown -R named /etc/namedb
>     # /etc/rc.d/named9 start
>
>Test your setup with host, dig and so on. Check for a running named process with ps. Error messages should go to /var/log/messages.


## DragonFly 2.8 Release Notes

### Release Improvements

> ### Kernel changes
* IO Scheduler framework and Fair Queuing I/O scheduler 

> ### HAMMER changes
* foo
* bar 

> ### Hardware changes (non-networking)
* foo
* bar 

> ### Hardware changes (networking)
* New wireless network card framework
* bar 

> ### Userland changes
* foo
* bar 

> ### amd64 related changes
* foo
* bar 

> ### Removals
* BIND is no longer in the base system.  See Special Upgrade notes above for a migration path.

> ### Contributed Software
* foo
* bar 

>### Security related
* foo

>### Big-ticket items

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