Episode Details

10: Year of the BSD Desktop

Published 12 years, 4 months ago

The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4
People who bought the CD get the release very early, but now it's on the public FTP
New platforms "octeon" and "beagle"
Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3
Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features - check out the full release notes
A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work
Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future ***

Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday
Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2
Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT
New "pkg+http" protocol identifier for SRV records
If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it's easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial
If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!
What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences? ***

SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it's time to branch
Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today
Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default
We're hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release ***

Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities
At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team
The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@). ***