DragonFly BSD 1.12, "A Maintenance Update"

"Hello everyone! We are happy to say that the 1.12 release is now available!" began Matthew Dillon, announcing the latest stable version of DragonFly BSD [1]. The project's home page explains, "DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly branched from FreeBSD in 2003 in order to develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems." Regarding the latest release, Matt explained:

"This release is primarily a maintenance update. A lot of work has been done all over the kernel and userland. There are no new big-ticket items though we have pushed the MP lock further into the kernel.

"The 2.0 release is scheduled for mid-year. Of the current big-ticket item work, the new HAMMER filesystem [2] is almost to the alpha stage of development and is expected to be production ready by the mid-year 2.0 release."

From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@...>
Subject: DragonFly 1.12 Released!
 [2]Date: Feb 26, 4:10 pm 2008

Hello everyone!  We are happy to say that the 1.12 release is now
    available!

	http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ [3]

    This release is primarily a maintainance update.  A lot of work has been
    done all over the kernel and userland.  There are no new big-ticket items
    though we have pushed the MP lock further into the kernel.

    The 2.0 release is scheduled for mid-year.

    Of the current big-ticket item work, the new HAMMER filesystem is almost
    to the alpha stage of development and is expected to be production ready
    by the mid-year 2.0 release.

						-Matt

From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@...>
Subject: RELEASE SCHEDULE FOR 1.12
 [3]Date: Feb 23, 4:58 pm 2008

Currently my plan is to release 1.12 on Monday (25 Feb 2008).  If
    there's too much to test for a monday release we will release
    Wednesday.

    Please post show-stoppers to this thread!  

					-Matt

DragonFly BSD 1.12, "A Maintenance Update"

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