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2007-01-30 BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.8
Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 1.8: "1.8 is our fifth major DragonFly release. DragonFly’s policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches. The biggest kernel change in this release is the addition of virtual kernel support and a virtual kernel build target (VKERNEL). Virtual kernels are systems-in-a-box... you can run a complete kernel as a userland process. All standard non-hardware-specific applications will run inside the virtual kernel. Performance depends on how heavily an application interacts with the VM system and how often it makes system calls, since these operations have to bed forwarded by the real kernel to the virtual kernel." Find more information in the comprehensive release notes. Download: dfly-1.8.0_REL.iso.gz (96.3MB, MD5).
2006-07-25 BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.6
DragonFly BSD 1.6 has been released: "1.6 is our fourth major DragonFly release. DragonFly’s policy is to only commit bug fixes to release branches. The biggest user-visible changes in this release are a new random number generator, a massive reorganisation of the 802.11 (wireless) framework, and extensive bug fixes in the kernel. We also made significant progress in pushing the big giant lock inward and made extensive modifications to the kernel infrastructure with an eye towards DragonFly’s main clustering and userland VFS goals. We consider 1.6 to be more stable then 1.4." Find more details in the comprehensive announcement. Download: dfly-1.6.0_REL.iso.gz (94.0MB, MD5). DragonFly BSD is a fork of FreeBSD 4.x series, representing a logical continuation of the branch that proved itself to be one of the most stable and reliable FreeBSD releases ever built.
2006-01-08 BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 1.4
DragonFly BSD 1.4 has been released: "1.4 is our third major DragonFly release. This release represents a significant milestone in our efforts to improve the kernel infrastructure. DragonFly is still running under the Big Giant Lock, but this will probably be the last release where that is the case. The greatest progress has been made in the network subsystem. The TCP stack is now almost fully threaded (and will likely be the first subsystem we remove the BGL from in coming months). The TCP stack now fully supports the SACK protocol and a large number of bug and performance fixes have gone in, especially in regard to GigE performance over LANs." Find more details in the comprehensive release notes. Download (MD5): dfly-1.4.0_REL.iso.gz (81.4MB). DragonFly BSD is a fork of FreeBSD 4.x series, representing a logical continuation of the branch that proved itself to be one of the most stable and reliable FreeBSD releases ever built.
2005-04-09 Distribution Release: DragonFly BSD 1.2.0
The second major release of DragonFly BSD is out: "This release represents a significant milestone in our efforts to improve the kernel infrastructure. DragonFly is still running under the Big Giant Lock, but this will probably be the last release where that is the case. The greatest progress has been made in the network subsystem. The TCP stack is now almost fully threaded... It goes without saying that this release is far more stable than our 1.0A release. A huge number of bug fixes, performance improvements, and design changes have been made since the 1.0A release." Find the release sites and the full release notes on dragonflybsd.org. Download: dfly-1.2.0_REL.iso.gz (81.5MB).
2004-07-13 Distribution Release: DragonFly BSD 1.0
The first stable version of DragonFly BSD is out: "One year after starting the project as a fork off the FreeBSD-4.x tree, the DragonFly Team is pleased to announce our 1.0 release! We’ve made remarkable progress in our first year. We have replaced nearly all of the core threading, process, interrupt, and network infrastructure with DragonFly native subsystems. We have our own MP-friendly slab allocator, a Light Weight Kernel Threading (LWKT) system that is separate from the dynamic userland scheduler, a fine-grained system timer abstraction for kernel use...." Find the full announcement on dragonflybsd.org. Download: dfly-1.0REL.iso.gz (78.6MB); also available via BitTorrent. Update: Release updated to 1.0a (78.6MB) to fix a serious fdisk/slice issue with the installer. An xdelta patch is also available for people who have downloaded the original 1.0REL iso.
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