In kicking off 2023 is DragonFlyBSD 6.4 as a big update and just under a year to the day since DragonFlyBSD 6.2 .
There aren't too many new features in DragonFlyBSD 6.4 but a lot of fixes to which users are encouraged to upgrade, especially with at least one known kernel vulnerability being fixed in v6.4. The key DragonFlyBSD 6.4 highlights include:
- All DragonFlyBSD users are encouraged to update since it addresses a locally-exploitable kernel vulnerability.
- A wide variety of kernel fixes.
- Many fixes to DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 file-system support as well as adding HAMMER2 support to the makefs utility.
- DSynth has updated its metadata version and added new configuration options, directives, etc.
- The (rather old) GCC 8 compiler remains the default system compiler for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.
Downloads and more information on the DragonFlyBSD 6.4 changes are available from DragonFlyBSD.org . DragonFlyBSD 6.4 benchmarks if there is enough reader interest.