New committer: Erik Cederstrand (projects)
A + press + release describing FreeBSD technologies used by Mozilla + Firefox.
+New committer: Dmitry Marakasov (ports)
New committer: Ermal Luçi (src)
Ivan Voras is now a src/ committer. He participated in the Google Summer of Code program in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion. At this point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the base system in the Subversion repository. We have a replication system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on a continuous basis.
People who are using our extensive CVS based distribution network (including anoncvs, CVSup, cvsweb, ftp) will not be interrupted by our work-in-progress. We are committed to maintaining the existing CVS based distribution system for at least the support lifetime of all existing "stable" branches. Security and errata patches will continue to be made available in their usual CVS locations.
We expect to make our Subversion based source tree and other supporting infrastructure public soon. There will be new mailing lists to subscribe to if you wish to receive Subversion commit notifications.
Our ports, doc and www trees are not affected at this time. A separate decision will be made regarding those CVS repositories soon.
Many people have contributed to the effort, but we wish to thank Michael Haggerty and the cvs2svn project developers for their assistance with cvs2svn. Peter Wemm spent several weeks of Yahoo!'s time repairing the CVS tree, preparing for and performing the conversion, and the configuration of the Subversion infrastructure. Yahoo! donated the server hardware.
New committer: Manolis Kiagias (doc/www)
New committer: Ed Schouten (src)
The January - March, 2008 Status Reports are now available with 13 entries.
The FreeBSD Project received over 100 applications for Google's Summer of Code program, amongst which 21 were selected for funding. Unfortunately, there were far more first rate applications than available spots for students. However, we encourage students to work together with us all year round. The FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students learn more about operating system development through our normal community mailing lists and development forums. Contributing to an open source software project is a valuable component of a computer science education and great preparation for a career in software development.
A complete list of the winning students and projects is available here. A Summer of Code wiki has been created and additional information about the projects will be added there soon.
New committer: Gábor Páli (Hungarian doc/www)
The deadline for student applications to participate in the Google Summer of Code has been extended by one week. The new deadline is Monday, April 7, 2008. If you haven't already, please visit our FreeBSD Summer of Code page and look at the example project ideas we've listed there, or propose your own. There are many new ideas listed since the first announcements went out.
The student application period for the Google Summer of Code 2008 program has begun. Please peruse our list of FreeBSD specific projects and potential mentors and prepare your application before the March 31 deadline. Earlier applications are encouraged as this provides an opportunity for potential mentors to work on improving the applications with students before the deadline.
The FreeBSD Project will soon be accepting applications for the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. This program will provide funding for students to spend the summer contributing to open source software projects. A list of FreeBSD specific projects and potential mentors is available here.
Once a suitable project and mentor have been identified, interested students should complete a proposal and submit it to Google. The application period begins on March 24, 2008 and the final deadline is April 1, 2008 0:00 UTC. Please see the Google FAQ for more information.
Roman Divacky is now a src/ committer. He participated in the Summer of Code program in 2006 and 2007, where he worked on Linux 2.6 compatibility.
New committer: Felippe M. Motta (ports)
New committer: Philippe Audeoud (ports)
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is now available. The release errata will be updated with late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.0, and should be consulted before installation. For more information about FreeBSD releases, see the Release Information page.
pfSense 1.2 released.
New committer: Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (doc/www)
New committer: Pietro Cerutti (ports)
The October-December, 2007 Status Reports are now available with 25 entries.
New committer: Oliver Fromme (src)
The second release candidate of FreeBSD 7.0 is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
New committer: Antoine Brodin (src)
New committer: Oleksandr Tymoshenko (src)
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 6.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.
Six new RSS 2.0 feeds have been made available on the FreeBSD website. It is now possible to subscribe to RSS 2.0 feeds for : FreeBSD Project News, FreeBSD In the Media, Upcoming FreeBSD Events, FreeBSD Security Advisories, FreeBSD Java Updates, and FreeBSD GNOME Updates. There is also an RSS 0.91 feed available for FreeBSD KDE Updates.
The new feeds all validate properly and have been tested with popular feed reading software. Please mail freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org if you have any problems with the new feeds.
DesktopBSD 1.6 is released.
New committer: Wesley Shields (ports)
The second release candidate of FreeBSD 6.3 has been announced. ISO images and distributions for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
The first release candidate of FreeBSD 7.0 is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
New committer: Weongyo Jeong (src)
New committer: Rafal Jaworowski (src)
Juniper Networks, Inc. (http://www.juniper.net) has donated a reference FreeBSD port to the MIPS architecture to The FreeBSD Project. This code will be used as one reference for creating an official project-supported FreeBSD/MIPS offering.
Information about the code drop can be found here.
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced an End-of-Year Fund Raising Drive. The goal this year is to raise over $250,000. This money is used for sponsoring FreeBSD related conferences, providing travel grants to developers to attend these conferences, providing grants for projects that improve FreeBSD, and providing legal support on issues like understanding the GPLv3 impact on FreeBSD, trademarks, and other legal issues that come up.
Donations can be made online from http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/.
The &os; 7.0 release process proceeds and as a consequence the 7.0-BETA4 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most &os; mirror sites. We ask our users to report any outstanding bugs, as this will presumably be the last BETA release before the first RC release.
The first release candidate of FreeBSD 6.3 has been announced. ISO images and distributions for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.
The &os; 7.0 release process proceeds and as a consequence the 7.0-BETA3 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most &os; mirror sites. We ask our users to report any outstanding bugs.
The &os; 7.0 release process proceeds and as a consequence the 7.0-BETA2 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most &os; mirror sites. We ask our users to report any outstanding bugs, as this will presumably be the last BETA release before the first RC release.
New committer: Henrik Brix Andersen (ports)
The &os; Foundation has started its Fall Fund-Raising Campaign with an auction of the first copy of the book "Absolute &os;, 2nd Edition" which was graciously donated by the author Michael Lucas. The winner of this auction will get a laser-printed Certificate of Authenticity together with a signed bookplate. All proceeds will go to The &os; Foundation! The bidding ends on November 2nd. More information is available on eBay.
Enhanced commit privileges: Martin Wilke (ports, doc)
Ulf Lilleengen is now a src/ committer. He participated in the Summer of Code program, where he worked on gvinum. In FreeBSD, Ulf will continue to work on gvinum, as well as csup and filesystem-related parts.
The final stage of the &os;-7.0 Release cycle has begun with the first beta release. The &os; 7.0-BETA1 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most of the &os; mirror sites. The more people that test and report bugs, the better &os; 7.0-RELEASE will be. For more information about the &os; 7.0 release process, please check the official schedule and the todo list.
The July-October, 2007 Status Reports is now available with 21 entries.
PC-BSD 1.4 has just been released. PC-BSD is a successful desktop operating system based on FreeBSD that focuses on providing an easy to use desktop system for casual computer users. The release may be downloaded or purchased on CD.
Kai Wang, a student in the Summer of Code program, is now a src/ committer.
Rui Paulo, a student in the Summer of Code program, is now a full src/ committer.
We are happy to report that 22 students successfully completed their FreeBSD Summer of Code projects. Congratulations to both mentors and students, and thanks to Google for running this program and providing funding.
The FreeBSD Foundation has published their August 2007 newsletter which summarizes their activities so far this year.
New committer: Thomas Abthorpe (ports)
Most of the machines and services in the FreeBSD.org cluster are now available through IPv6. This includes www, mail and developer ssh access. Connectivity is provided from ISC using a tunnel.
New committer: Fukang Chen (doc)
The April-June, 2007 Status Report is now available with 49 entries.
New committer: Lars Engels (ports)
Enhanced commit privileges: Edwin Groothuis (src, ports)
New committer: Sean C. Farley (src)
New committer: Timur I. Bakeyev (ports)
Enhanced commit privileges: Chin-San Huang (doc, ports)
Support for the Camellia block cipher has been integrated into FreeBSD 7-CURRENT and will be part of the upcoming FreeBSD 7-RELEASE. For more information, please refer to the press release.
Enhanced commit privileges: Johann Kois (full doc/www)
New committer: Beech Rintoul (ports)
Attilio Rao, a student in the Summer of Code program, is now a full src/ committer.
Thanks to the hard work of Florent Thoumie (and others), the FreeBSD ports collection now uses the modular Xorg 7.2 as its default X server. i386 and AMD64 6.2-STABLE packages are available and other architectures/releases will be available later, or you can compile it from source. In both cases, see the 20070519 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING on how to upgrade. Please track -ports for last minute information.
New committer: Marcelo Araujo (ports)
New committer: Tong Liu (ports)
The FreeBSD Project received over 120 applications for Google's Summer of Code program, amongst which 25 were selected for funding. Unfortunately, there were far more first rate applications than available spots for students. However, we encourage students to work together with us all year round. The FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students learn more about operating system development through our normal community mailing lists and development forums. Contributing to an open source software project is a valuable component of a computer science education and great preparation for a career in software development.
A complete list of the winning students and projects is available here. A Summer of Code wiki is also available with additional information.
New committer: Edward Tomasz Napierala (ports)
Under the supervision of Ganbold Tsagaankhuu the Mongolian translation goes live. The official translation of the FreeBSD Handbook, completed by the Mongolian FreeBSD Documentation Project, adds support for documentation in another language. For more information about the ongoing work of the MFDP, please refer to the Translations page of the FreeBSD Documentation Project.
New committer: Alexander Motin (src)
The January-March, 2007 Status Report is now available with 19 entries.
Support for Sun's ZFS has been committed to the FreeBSD 7-CURRENT development branch and will be available as an experimental feature in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. For more information please refer to the announcement.
New committer: Martin Matuska (ports)
New committer: Li-Wen Hsu (ports)
New committer: Sepherosa Ziehau (src)
The FreeBSD Project is now accepting applications for the Google Summer of Code 2007 program. This program will provide funding for students to spend the summer contributing to open source software projects. A list of FreeBSD specific projects and potential mentors is available here.
Once a suitable project and mentor have been identified, interested students should complete a proposal and submit it to Google. Proposals are now being accepted and the final deadline is March 24, 2007. Please see the Google FAQ for more information.
FreeBSD 7-CURRENT and 6-STABLE snapshot releases for March 2007 now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team issues snapshot releases to encourage users to test new features and improve the reliability. For more details, please visit the snapshots page.
Michael Bushkov, a successful student from last year's Summer of Code program, has continued working with the FreeBSD Project and is now a full src/ committer.
Recently there has been significant progress on optimizing FreeBSD 7.0 for MySQL running an 8-core amd64 system. Under the test workload FreeBSD has peak performance consistent with Linux, and outperforms it by a factor of 4 under higher loads. Continue reading for a more detailed report here.
The FreeBSD project has reached an agreement with Intel about the redistribution of firmware images for Intel wireless cards. Please refer to the press release for more information.
Information about how the change in Daylight Savings Time for some time zones affects FreeBSD releases.
Enhanced commit privileges: Remko Lodder (doc,src)
New committer: JINMEI, Tatuya (src)
New committer: Stephane E. Potvin (src)
New committer: Benjamin Close (src)
In his latest bsdtalk podcast, Will Backman interviews FreeBSD Developer George V. Neville-Neil about the upcoming AsiaBSDCon conference. http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk099.mp3.
AsiaBSDCon, the BSD conference for Asia, has posted its schedule of tutorials, papers and presentations for the conference, taking place in Tokyo from March 8th through 11th 2007. The complete schedule can be found here.
Registration will begin on or about the 12th of February.
Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Kövesdán (doc, ports)
Enhanced commit privileges: Rong-En Fan (src, ports)
New committer: Diane Bruce (ports)
The October-December, 2006 Status Report is now available with 41 entries.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 6.2. The Release Information page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
Under the supervision of FreeBSD developer Gábor Kövesdán, the Hungarian translation goes live. This official translation, completed by the Hungarian FreeBSD Documentation Project, adds support for documentation in another language. For more information about the ongoing work of the HFDP team, please refer to the Translations page of the FreeBSD Documentation Project.
An article about how Mozilla Firefox uses FreeBSD - Technologies.
-A short introduction to building kernel modules on FreeBSD 7.
A review of FreeBSD 7.0 Beta 3.
A brief look at FreeBSD 7.0.
An interview with several FreeBSD developers about features in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.
Version 1.6 of DesktopBSD has been released. DesktopBSD is a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD.
FreeBSD using web hosting provider DataPipe was ranked the most reliable provider in October 2007 by Netcraft.
An article that briefly covers broadband setup on FreeBSD.
Describes the TCP stack tuning process used to get FreeBSD 5.3 to run at gigabit speeds.
FreeBSD-based FreeNAS is touched upon in an article on open-source storage tools.
An article discussing how to build and subsequently manage FreeBSD jails.
An article on keeping multiple FreeBSD machines upto-date by building from source code.
An article that touches on the process of rebuilding a FreeBSD system from source.
A reviewer is impressed by the FreeBSD-based PC-BSD desktop system.
An article in the Processor Magazine discusses using FreeBSD or OpenBSD as part of a strategy to increase server uptime.
An introduction to PC-BSD for Linux users.
An article on using and configuring the command line in FreeBSD.
The Inquirer takes FreeBSD-based PC-BSD 1.4 (beta) for a test drive.
A podcast interview with M. Warner Losh on embedding FreeBSD.
BSDTalk interviews FreeBSD developer George Neville-Neil about FAST IPSec
A tutorial on setting up user PPP on FreeBSD.
Ars Technica reviews PC-BSD 1.3 and is favorably impressed.
An introduction to printing on a FreeBSD desktop.
An article about FreeBSD being part of the most popular question in a webcast with the Kazakhian president.
An interview with the author of the first book on BSD rootkits.
BSDTalk interviews a few FreeBSD Core team members at BSDCAN '07.
An article on setting up email for a FreeBSD desktop.
A review of PC-BSD 1.3.
BSDTalk interviews FreeBSD developer Diane Bruce about Ham radio on BSD.
In this BSDTalk interview FreeBSD developer George Neville-Neil talks about using VMs for development.
An article that walks the reader through the process of installing 3rd party software using the FreeBSD's ports and package collection.
The third article in a series covering the deployment of a FreeBSD based server with Apache 2.2, PHP 5, MySQL 5.0, Sendmail with SMTP-AUTH, Webmail, Bind DNS, SNMP, synchronized local time, Webmin and with graphing using rrdtool/cacti.
BSDTalk interviews FreeBSD developer Randall Stewart about his work bringing SCTP to FreeBSD.
BSDTalk interviews FreeBSD developer George Neville-Neil on his packet construction set and packet debugger tools.
BSD Certification Group member Dru Lavigne puts forth the idea that free/open source software provided an excellent opportunity to inexpensively change one's career path.
An interview with FreeBSD developer and FreeBSD Foundation Director Sam Leffler about the FreeBSD Foundation.
Ticket broking firm In Ticketing prefers FreeBSD on account of the security it provides.
An interview with Kris Moore, Andrei Kolu, and Charles Landemaine of the PC-BSD release engineering team.
An interview with Matteo Riondato, FreeBSD developer and release engineer for FreeSBIE, a FreeBSD-based ``Live CD''.
A brief look at FreeBSD 6.2.
A new release of FreeSBIE, a FreeBSD Live-CD, has been released after two years of development.
A look at the new features in PC-BSD 1.3.
An interview with the developers of the FreeBSD-based FreeNAS project, on the occasion of it being selected as SourceForge's Project of the Month.