Status of DragonFlyBSD development

[Aaron LI]

Hi Nelson,

We really need to do a major release (i.e. 6.6) soon, but we're still 
struggling with the packages.  We're still fixing 2024Q3 from FreeBSD 
Ports and it seems to still need some time.  I'm sorry I don't know the 
schedule.  We currently only have a handful developers working on the 
packages and it's becoming harder to keep up with FreeBSD.

By the way, we'll also do a point release (i.e., 6.4.1) soon, in order 
to fix the annoying TLS certificate failure with Let's Encrypt.

Cheers,
Aaron

FYI, I still remember to test TeXLive on DragonFly. Really sorry about 
the long delay...


On 3/2/25 6:29 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Can DragonFlyBSD folks comment on the status of O/S and package
> development?
> 
> I ask because the last gcc update on my DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0 system was
> for version 12.2.0 on 29-Jul-2024, and the last clang update was
> version 14.0.6 on 2-Aug-2024.  My kernel is dated 30-Dec-2022.
> 
> Recent FreeBSD releases have clang-21 and gcc-15, and the
> LLVM/Clang download site at
> 
> 	https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/
> 
> has binaries for some systems up to LLVM 20.1.0-rc2.
> 
> The site at
> 
> 	https://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/
> 
> was last updated on 1-Jan-2023, 26 months ago.
> 
> I run updates on my active VMs every 2 to 4 weeks, and I have not had
> any updates for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0 since 15-Oct-2024.
> 
> Are other DragonFlyBSD list members also seeing a lull in O/S and
> package releases?
> 
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