DragonFly 4.2.0 released

Baurzhan Muftakhidinov baurthefirst at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 08:44:59 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Justin Sherrill
<justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> DragonFly 4.2 has been tagged and built:
>
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release42/
>
> From the release page:
>
> "Version 4.2 of DragonFly brings significant updates to i915 and
> Radeon support, a move to GCC 5 (and the first BSD to do so), a
> replacement to Sendmail, and numerous other changes including OpenSSL
> updates, a new boot screen, improved sound, and improved USB support."
>
> The release page has links to the tagging commits for this release,
> which have an exhaustive list of all the commits that went in between
> 4.0 and 4.2.  The normal ISO and IMG files are available for download
> and install.
>
> This version drops Sendmail as part of the base system and switches to
> DMA as a local-only agent.  Be ready for some extra configuration if
> you normally send outgoing mail with any box you are moving to 4.2!
>
> If you have an existing 4.0.x system and are running a generic kernel,
> the normal upgrade process will work.  Change your local /usr/src to
> 4.2:
>
>> cd /usr/src
>> git fetch origin
>> git branch DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2 origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2
>> git checkout DragonFly_RELEASE_4_2
>> git pull
>
> And then rebuild:
>
>> make buildworld
>> make buildkernel
>> make installkernel
>> make installworld
>> make upgrade
>
> Don't forget to upgrade your existing packages.  4.2 packages have
> already been built and are immediately available.
>
>> pkg upgrade

Will we see GUI-enabled ISO image this time?



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