DragonFly BSD 1.10.0

1.10 is our sixth major DragonFly release. DragonFly's policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches.

Several big-ticket items are present in this release. Our default ATA driver has been switched to NATA (ported from FreeBSD). NATAs big claim to fame is support for AHCI which is the native SATA protocol standard. It is far, far better than the old ATA/IDE protocol. DragonFly now has non-booting support for GPT partitioning and 64 bit disklabels. Non-booting means we don't have boot support for these formats yet. DragonFly's Light Weight Process abstraction is now finished and working via libthread_xu but the default threading library is not quite ready to be changed from libc_r yet. All threaded programs now link against an actual 'libpthread' which is a softlink to libc_r or libthread_xu, allowing the new threading library to be tested more fully.

In order to support a reasonable number of slices and partitions a certain degree of device renumbering has occured, so if you are upgrading from an older release be sure to run 'make upgrade' after installing the new world and kernel to properly update your /dev. Up to 250 or so slices and 127 partitions are now supported.

This release also contains a massive amount of new device support, particularly related to wireless networking, plus security updates and bug fixes.

A more complete list is included below. We consider 1.10 to be more stable then 1.8.

 

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