By JT Pennington
Published June 27, 2019 2:45am
DragonflyBSD 5.6 is out, OpenBSD Vulkan Support, bad utmp implementations in glibc and FreeBSD, OpenSSH protects itself against Side Channel attacks, ZFS vs OpenZFS, and more.HeadlinesDragonflyBSD 5.6 is outVersion 5.6.0 released 17 June 2019
Version 5.6.1 released 19 June 2019
Big-ticket items
Improved VMInformal test results showing the changes from 5.4 to 5.6 are available.Reduce stalls in the kernel vm_page_alloc() code (vm_page_list_find()).Improve page allocation algorithm to avoid re-iterating the same queues as the search is widened.Add a vm_page_hash*() API that allows the kernel to...