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DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 Released With Numerous Fixes

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 24 September 2020 at 09:59 AM EDT. 4 Comments

DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 is out today as the latest stable version of this popular BSD operating system.

Among the changes to find with DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 are:

- DSynth now supports ccache and various other improvements.

- A few fixes for HAMMER2 and enhancing the pfs-list and pfs-delete support.

- The serial port default changed from 9600 to 115200.

- Syncing the xargs code from FreeBSD.

- Updating Bzip2.

- A few installer/release fixes.

- Various other mostly minor kernel fixes.

The commit message outlines all of the DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 changes in full. DragonFlyBSD 5.8.2 is available for download from DragonFlyBSD.org.

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