After only two and a half weeks: Dragonfly BSD 6.4.2 with further fixes

Recently, the developers around Matt Dillon surprised us with signs of life in the form of an update for Dragonfly BSD, for which users had to wait a miserably long 852 days. The next surprise is now the update to Dragonfly BSD 6.4.2 after only 9 days. It is particularly important for administrators who run Dragonfly BSD in a virtual machine under QEMU.

The reason are annoying and important bugs that were not considered in the 6.4.1 update. The mechanism for counting the cylinders of VirtIO block devices has been corrected and now provides correct results even for newly created drives larger than 8 GB. Also fdisk(8) received some improvements in connection with TRIM, the GPT partitioning. In addition, the source code has been "tidied up". All these bug fixes are mainly for the benefit of the Dragonfly BSD installation.

Rare kernel panics in connection with IPv6 have been found and fixed. A "prev" instead of "next" for a value in vm_map_entry caused editors such as Neovim to crash when a large number of subprocesses were started. Matt Dillon himself has fixed "his bug". Further bug fixes affect the Chrome/Chromium web browser. All changes in the new version can be read in detail in the changelog. USB and ISO images for installation can be downloaded free of charge from the project page.

(dmk)