The 2.8.2 release of DragonFly BSD is now available, featuring significant advances in multi-processor performance based on DragonFly’s signature soft token locks. It also includes many feature advancements including: pf from OpenBSD 4.2, the Wifi stack from FreeBSD and DataMapper from NetBSD (with significant enhancements). This release also marks the return of the GUI image. See the release notes for full details.

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OpenBSD 4.8 has been released. The main feature of this release is the ACPI suspend and resume for laptops with Intel or Ati graphic chipsets. If anyone is knowledgeable enough about OpenBSD to write a long item about it, feel free.

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Mortimer.CA writes “The release of OpenBSD 4.8 has been announced. Highlights include ACPI suspend/resume, better hardware support, OpenBGPD/OpenOSPFD/routing daemon improvements, inclusion of OpenSSH 5.5, etc. Nothing revolutionary, just the usual steady improving of the system. A detailed ChangeLog is available, as usual. Work, of course, has already started on the next release, which should be ready in May, according to the steady six-month release cycle.”

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NetBSD 5.1 RC2 has been announced. A complete list of changes between 5.0 and 5.1 is available in diff format here for the more technical individuals. Fire up those VMs and give it a test run.

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As mentioned in the release announcement: “Many people have received their 4.6 CDs in the mail by now, and we really don’t want them to be without the full package repository. We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.6. This is our 26th release on CD-ROM (and 27th via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD’s record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the default install.” I really want news like this on the front page, but sadly, the long list of improvements makes no sense to me – I don’t know what’s important and what isn’t. If someone can provide a nice readable summary of the most important improvements, I’ll include it to the item and place it on the front page. There we are.

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