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DragonFly 2.2.1

Matthew Dillon announced the new DragonFly 2.2.1 sub-release.
that brings several improvements and bug-fixes.

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Kernel changes

  • Fixes for libthread_xu: MAP_STACK and an errno leak.

Hardware changes

  • Bug fixes for sppp(4), and i4b(4).
  • Fixed recursive lock in detached close of /dev/tty.

HAMMER changes

  • HAMMER VFS: Added missing hammer_rel_volume() call in deadlock/retry case.

Networking changes

  • Allowed the IP_MINTTL socket option to be set to zero.

Release improvements

  • Fixed an installworld failure due to kernel fixes and a libthread_xu issue.
  • Installer now works correctly in the console, and properly creates device files if they don't exist.

Userland changes

  • Updates for msdosfs, pax(1), and magic(3)
  • Allowed uid/gid/flags changes to fail if running cpdup as a user

Contributed software

  • Synced zoneinfo database with tzdata2009f from elsie.

Security updates

  • FreeBSD-SA-09:05.telnet - fix environment based code execution vulnerability
Release Date: 
Wed, 2009-04-29

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