# 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

or

>     # pkg_radd bind96

>     # cp /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"
>     named_program="/usr/pkg/sbin/named"
>
>     # 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 
* LVM + Device-mapper, crypt and stripe targets
* select/poll hoisted onto kqueue
* LWKT tokens reworked
* MP Lock removed from VM and pmaps (sorta: its still taken with the vm token, but the groundwork is there)
* VM: Idle time page zeroing
* Major update of pf  from OpenBSD 3.5 to 4.2, keeping DragonFly specific additions (support for pickups and fairq)
* swapoff added
* Major network work (NEEDS MORE DETAILS).


> ### HAMMER changes
* foo
* bar 

> ### Hardware changes (non-networking)
* Driver for Areca RAID controllers (arcmsr)
* foo
* bar 

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

> ### Userland changes
* Power/CPU frequency management daemon
* Kernel programming guide (section 9 man pages) updated and extended.

> ### 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
* Imported drill and libldns as a resolving utility in base as BIND has gone
*  

>### Security related
* foo

>### Big-ticket items

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