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FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system. Keeping up on
the latest developments can be a chore! To keep on top of things,
be sure and check this page periodically. Also, you may wish to
subscribe to the freebsd-announce
mailing list.
The FreeBSD Real-Quick (TM)
Newsletter (RQN) is a monthly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter
containing recent developments in the FreeBSD arena. Subscribe to
freebsd-announce
to receive this newsletter via e-mail.
For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases,
see the Release
Information page.
March 2000
February 2000
26-Feb-2000 A new committer: Hajimu UMEMOTO (IPv6)
23-Feb-2000 A new committer: Paul Saab
- 22-Feb-2000
32BitsOnline.com has a
review
of FreeBSD 3.4 by Clifford
Smith available on their web site. All in all, a good
review.
18-Feb-2000 A new committer: Brian S Dean (Kernel
support for IA32 hardware debug registers, misc
fixes/feature enhancements in other areas)
- 17-Feb-2000
A new issue of The FreeBSD
'zine came out on the 15th. This is the first issue of the
'zine in 7 months; lots of changes have been made, and many new
features have been added. Be sure to check it out.
- 10-Feb-2000
Michael Lucas
has written an excellent
article on the differences between the BSD license and the
GPL. This article is definitely worth reading.
New committers: Greg Sutter
and Bill Swingle
(Docs)
January 2000
- 22-Jan-2000
The FreeBSD Diary, a
chronicle of what one guy is doing with FreeBSD, has been around
for almost two years. Until today, it was tucked away in a corner
of his site. Following significant growth, a new-look site was
launched today. The site contains a huge number of how-to guides
and the readership includes NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux
users.
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13-Jan-2000 A new committer: Wilko Bulte
- 04-Jan-2000
The Compaq Testdrive
program is now making testdrives available of the the latest
FreeBSD 4.0-20000101-CURRENT release running on an Alpha XP1000
EV6.7. running at 667MHz and loaded with two gigs of ram. To get
a free shell account as a participant in the testdrive program,
all you need to do is register at the site. These accounts aren't
for playing, the goal of the program is to make brand new systems
available to developers so they can test, build and port their
apps to the world's fastest computer. The testdrive program also
offers other systems running FreeBSD, including a Proliant 5500
dual Xeon 450MHz and a DPW500a.
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03-Jan-2000 A new committer: Patrick Gardella
(JDK/WWW)
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02-Jan-2000 A new committer: Ade Lovett (Ports)
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01-Jan-2000 A new committer: Jeremy Lea (Ports)
December 1999
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30-Dec-1999 A new committer: Gerard Roudier (
- 20-Dec-1999
FreeBSD 3.4 has
been released. Please see the Release Information page for
more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after
installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.4 that
occur.
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18-Dec-1999 A new committer: Robert Watson (Coda,
POSIX.1e ACLs/Capabilities/Auditing/MAC, FFS extended attributes,
Jail code improvements/documentation, IPFW/BPF cleanup)
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16-Dec-1999 Remove a committer: James Raynard, "I have
decided to resign as a committer as it's been a very long time
since I last had the time to work on FreeBSD and things have now
got to the point where not even "speed reading" can help me keep
up with the commit mail." Our thanks to James for the time
and effort he has contributed to FreeBSD.
A new committer: Jeroen
Ruigrok van der Werven (Docs, in particular mdoc,
low-level interfaces, and other source tree related
documentation)
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15-Dec-1999 A new committer: Chris D. Faulhaber
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14-Dec-1999 A new committer: Neil Blakey-Milner (Docs)
October 1999
September 1999
August 1999
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23-Aug-1999 A new committer: John Baldwin (Docs)
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11-Aug-1999 New committers: Alfred Perlstein (SMP) and Jim Mock (Docs)
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- 10-Aug-1999
C-Forge, an Integrated
Development Environment, has been released (beta) for FreeBSD,
supporting C, C++, Perl, Tcl, and many other
languages.
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06-Aug-1999 A new committer: Chris Costello (Docs)
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04-Aug-1999 A new committer: Peter Holm (Docs)
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June 1999
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May 1999
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April 1999
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March 1999
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30-Mar-1999 A new committer: Nick Sayer
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10-Mar-1999 A new committer: Jason Evans
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- 05-Mar-1999
The USENIX Association has
announced the 1999 USENIX Annual
Technical Conference, scheduled for 06-11 June 1999 in
Monterey, CA, USA. Our own Jordan Hubbard is chairing the FREENIX
Track, devoted to open source software's latest developments and
interesting applications.
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02-Mar-1999 A new committer: Satoshi TAOKA (Ports)
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- 01-Mar-1999
A secure server has been set up to accept monetary donations to
the FreeBSD Project. For more information, see: http://www.freebsdmall.com/donate/.
- 01-Mar-1999
FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE CDs are now shipping. Subscribers should
receive their CDs soon. See http://www.cdrom.com/ to
order.
February 1999
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25-Feb-1999 A new committer: Shigeyuki FUKUSHIMA
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23-Feb-1999 A new committer: Alan Cox (VM)
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19-Feb-1999 A new committer: Kris Kennaway
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- 17-Feb-1999
The Gartner Group has released a report, Divorcing Thin Server
Software from the Hardware, examining the trend in the OEM
market of using software and hardware from different
vendors.
- 15-Feb-1999
FreeBSD 3.1 has
been released. Please see the Release Information page for
more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after
installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.1 that you might
need to be aware of.
- 04-Feb-1999
The FreeBSD Diary, a
collection of how-to entries aimed at Unix novices, is now
available.
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03-Feb-1999 A new committer: Daniel Sobral (Bootloader)
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January 1999
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21-Jan-1999 A new committer: Roger Hardiman (bt8x8
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- 20-Jan-1999 3.0-STABLE has now departed the -CURRENT
branch. The next release on this branch will be 3.1-RELEASE,
in mid-February 1999.
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15-Jan-1999 A new committer: Andrew Gallatin (Alpha)
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- 13-Jan-1999
The FreeBSD ezine is a
monthly collection of easy to read (we hope) articles written by
FreeBSD users and administrators just like you.
- 10-Jan-99
Jordan Hubbard's "State of the Union",
a look back at 1998, and a look forward to the future.
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02-Jan-1999 A new committer: Hidetoshi Shimokawa (Alpha
+ / Ports)
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December 1998
- 28-Dec-98
Unless circumstances dictate otherwise, FreeBSD 3.0 will depart
the -CURRENT branch late in the day on 15 January 1999. The 3.1
release will follow 30 days later, on 15 February 1999.
Developers should consider this as ADVANCE NOTICE of these
events.
- 13-Dec-98
Walnut Creek CDROM has opened the FreeBSD Mall, a site
devoted to the commercial aspects of FreeBSD, including add-ons,
hardware, and commercial tech-support. To advertise or sell your
products or services at the FreeBSD Mall, contact Walnut Creek
CDROM.
November 1998
- 30-Nov-98
FreeBSD 2.2.8
has been released. Please see the Release Information page for
more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after
installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.8 that you
might need to be aware of.
- 26-Nov-98
FreeBSD Rocks is an
initiative designed to provide the FreeBSD community with the
latest FreeBSD news, software and resources. All areas include
search facilities, making keyword searching of historical posts
a breeze. The pages are updated daily and everyone is invited to
sign up an post an article. If it happened today, you'll see it
on FreeBSDRocks.
October 1998
- 15-Oct-98
FreeBSD 3.0 has
been released. See the Release Information page for
details. Also be sure to check the release errata after
installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.0 that you might
need to be aware of.
September 1998
- 15-Sep-98
September 15th is the scheduled date for entering BETA with the
3.0-CURRENT tree. As all of you already (should) know, 3.0 is
scheduled for release on October 15th so this gives us a nice 30
day BETA period. During this time, I don't expect anyone to drop
in significant new work or otherwise perturb the 3.0-CURRENT tree
in such a way that violates the general idea of a BETA (you're
supposed to test what you have, not move the goalposts every
couple of days :).
- 13-Sep-98
After more than a year of development, the Common Access Method
SCSI layer for FreeBSD will be integrated into 3.0-CURRENT on
Sunday, September 13th. The CAM development team is currently
busy ensuring that the integration process goes as smoothly as
possible, so please understand that we may be slow to respond to
questions about CAM during that time.
- 9-Sep-98
Perl5 is now imported into the 3.0-CURRENT source
tree.
- 5-Sep-98
The BSD CD
Giveaway List. If somebody has a CD to give away (recipient
pays for shipping) or to lend locally, they can put their email
address on the list. Hardware and literature can also be given
away. We encourage people to donate CDs to local libraries and
put them on the list as well.
- 1-Sep-98
First issue of Daemon News arrives day earlier. This ezine is
by the BSD community for the BSD community. See http://www.daemonnews.org/
August 1998
- 31-Aug-98
FreeBSD -CURRENT branch (the future 3.0-RELEASE) has switched to
ELF from a.out format. People involved did a great job;
transition went smooth. Check the freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
mail archive for more information on the transition to
ELF.
- 23-Aug-98
Suidcontrol-0.1 utility has been released. The suidcontrol is an
experimental utility for managing suid/sgid policy under FreeBSD.
You can get more information at http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html
- 9-Aug-98
FreeBSD Security How-To has been published. This work is
currently in beta and can be found at http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt
July 1998
May 1998
- 30-May-98
FreeBSD and Apache are used in this
very useful article on implementing a web farm using round-robin
DNS in WEBTechniques.com.
- 23-May-98
The second issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in Adobe
PDF format (also by FTP).
A help
file is available to assist you in selecting and using a PDF
viewer. Article submissions, advertisements, and letters to the
editor should be sent to newsletter@FreeBSD.org.
- 1-May-98
The FreeBSD Project set up Anonymous CVS for the
FreeBSD CVS
tree. Among other things, it allows users of FreeBSD to
perform, with no special privileges, read-only CVS operations
against one of the FreeBSD project's official anoncvs
servers.
April 1998
- 16-Apr-98
The new 4 CD set of FreeBSD 2.2.6 is now in stock and should start
shipping to subscription and back-order customers tomorrow. More
information on the CD contents are available from http://www.cdrom.com/.
- 11-Apr-98
The new FreeBSD project FreeBSD
Mozilla Group is created. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group supports
and improves the free available Netscape web browser, otherwise
known as Mozilla.
March 1998
- 25-Mar-98
FreeBSD 2.2.6 has been released. See the Release Information page for
details. Also be sure to check the release
errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with
2.2.6 that you should know about.
February 1998
January 1998
- 08-Jan-98
Improved support for Plug-n-Play cards has now been integrated
into both 3.0-CURRENT and 2.2-STABLE branches now. This is
available in source form via the CVSup utility or in
binary release snapshots from current.FreeBSD.org
Previous announcements for 1997 and 1996 are also available.
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