Status of DragonFlyBSD development

[Justin Sherrill]

Why don't we?

On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM John Marino (DragonFly) <
dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:

> Or y'all could just officially adopt Ravenports which has full
> package releases at least monthly.
> I know, I know, the chromium package isn't finished.
>
> but it's got the last rust, llvm/clang, gcc, etc.
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>> >
>> >
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > - Nelson H. F. Beebe                    Tel: +1 801 581 5254
>>       -
>> > - University of Utah
>>       -
>> > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB    Internet e-mail:
>> beebe at math.utah.edu  -
>> > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233                       beebe at acm.org
>> beebe at computer.org -
>> > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA    URL:
>> https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe -
>> >
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>>
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