It has been well over two years since the last release of DragonFlyBSD, version 6.4.0, and today the project pushed out a small update, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1. It fixes a few small, longstanding issues, but as the version number suggests, don’t expect any groundbreaking changes here. The legacy IDE/NATA driver had a memory leak fixed, the ca_root_nss package has been updated to support newer Let’s Encrypt certificates, the package update command will no longer delete an important configuration file that rendered the command unusable, and more small fixes like that.
Existing users can update the usual way.
Apparently this didn’t actually get fixed? Fresh installation of the new release and after a successful pkg update the pkg command stops working saying no repos available, even though repos are configured correctly in the .conf file.
I have always been curious about the HAMMER filesystem, including its default snapshot behaviour. It sounded like a nice design back when btrfs was super flaky. But the list of HAMMER related issues noted in this release is somewhat alarming given how long it has been around now.
I use bcachefs and, despite it still being experimental, it has been extremely stable and reliable for me.
Seems to me that DragonflyBSD is kind of dead.