diff --git a/website/content/en/status/_index.adoc b/website/content/en/status/_index.adoc index a13ad654cc..2c66dfee07 100644 --- a/website/content/en/status/_index.adoc +++ b/website/content/en/status/_index.adoc @@ -1,169 +1,173 @@ --- title: "FreeBSD Status Reports" sidenav: about --- = FreeBSD Status Reports -== Next Quarterly Status Report submissions (January - March) due: March 31st, 2022 +== Next Quarterly Status Report submissions (April - June) due: June 30th, 2022 Submit your entries as Pull Requests from your fork of link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-quarterly[FreeBSD Status Report GitHub repo] or submit them via e-mail to quarterly-submissions@FreeBSD.org, using the link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-quarterly/blob/master/report-sample.adoc[report-sample.adoc template]. ''''' One of the benefits of the FreeBSD development model is a focus on centralized design and implementation, in which the operating system is maintained in a central repository, and discussed on centrally maintained lists. This allows for a high level of coordination between authors of various components of the system, and allows policies to be enforced over the entire system, covering issues ranging from architecture to style. However, as the FreeBSD developer community has grown, and the rate of both mailing list traffic and tree modifications has increased, making it difficult even for the most dedicated developer to remain on top of all the work going on in the tree. The FreeBSD Development Status Report attempts to address this problem by providing a vehicle that allows developers to make the broader community aware of their on-going work on FreeBSD, both in and out of the central source repository. For each project and sub-project, a one paragraph summary is included, indicating progress since the last summary. If it is a new project, or if a project has not submitted any prior status reports, a short description may precede the status information. For more exact guidelines on how to write good status reports, please consult link:howto/[our recommendations]. Periodically, special status reports are prepared and published. One of those are the developer summit reports. Developer summits are places where developers meet in person to discuss issues related to the project. They are definitely worth attending if one is interested in making significant contributions to the Project and they are open to anybody! These status reports may be reproduced in whole or in part, as long as the source is clearly identified and appropriate credit given. +== 2022 + +* link:report-2022-01-2022-03/[January, 2022 - March, 2022] + == 2021 * link:report-2021-10-2021-12/[October, 2021 - December, 2021] * link:report-2021-07-2021-09/[July, 2021 - September, 2021] * link:report-2021-04-2021-06/[April, 2021 - June, 2021] * link:report-2021-01-2021-03/[January, 2021 - March, 2021] == 2020 * link:report-2020-10-2020-12/[October, 2020 - December, 2020] * link:report-2020-07-2020-09/[July, 2020 - September, 2020] * link:report-2020-04-2020-06/[April, 2020 - June, 2020] * link:report-2020-01-2020-03/[January, 2020 - March, 2020] == 2019 * link:report-2019-10-2019-12/[October, 2019 - December, 2019] * link:report-2019-07-2019-09/[July, 2019 - September, 2019] * link:report-2019-04-2019-06/[April, 2019 - June, 2019] * link:report-2019-01-2019-03/[January, 2019 - March, 2019] == 2018 * link:report-2018-09-2018-12/[October, 2018 - December, 2018] * link:report-2018-01-2018-09/[October, 2017 - September, 2018] == 2017 * link:report-2017-07-2017-09/[July, 2017 - September, 2017] * link:report-2017-04-2017-06/[April, 2017 - June, 2017] * link:report-2017-01-2017-03/[January, 2017 - March, 2017] == 2016 * link:report-2016-10-2016-12/[October, 2016 - December, 2016] * link:report-2016-07-2016-09/[July, 2016 - September, 2016] * link:report-2016-04-2016-06/[April, 2016 - June, 2016] * link:report-2016-01-2016-03/[January, 2016 - March, 2016] == 2015 * link:report-2015-10-2015-12/[October, 2015 - December, 2015] * link:report-2015-07-2015-09/[July, 2015 - September, 2015] * link:report-2015-04-2015-06/[April, 2015 - June, 2015] * link:report-2015-01-2015-03/[January, 2015 - March, 2015] == 2014 * link:report-2014-10-2014-12/[October, 2014 - December, 2014] * link:report-2014-07-2014-09/[July, 2014 - September, 2014] * link:report-2014-04-2014-06/[April, 2014 - June, 2014] * link:report-2014-01-2014-03/[January, 2014 - March, 2014] == 2013 * link:report-2013-10-2013-12/[October, 2013 - December, 2013] * link:report-2013-09-devsummit/[EuroBSDcon 2013 Developer Summit Special] * link:report-2013-07-2013-09/[July, 2013 - September, 2013] * link:report-2013-04-2013-06/[April, 2013 - June, 2013] * link:report-2013-05-devsummit/[BSDCan 2013 Developer Summit Special] * link:report-2013-01-2013-03/[January, 2013 - March, 2013] == 2012 * link:report-2012-10-2012-12/[October, 2012 - December, 2012] * link:report-2012-07-2012-09/[July, 2012 - September, 2012] * link:report-2012-04-2012-06/[April, 2012 - June, 2012] * link:report-2012-01-2012-03/[January, 2012 - March, 2012] == 2011 * link:report-2011-10-2011-12/[October, 2011 - December, 2011] * link:report-2011-07-2011-09/[July, 2011 - September, 2011] * link:report-2011-04-2011-06/[April, 2011 - June, 2011] * link:report-2011-01-2011-03/[January, 2011 - March, 2011] == 2010 * link:report-2010-10-2010-12/[October, 2010 - December, 2010] * link:report-2010-07-2010-09/[July, 2010 - September, 2010] * link:report-2010-04-2010-06/[April, 2010 - June, 2010] * link:report-2010-01-2010-03/[January, 2010 - March, 2010] == 2009 * link:report-2009-10-2009-12/[October, 2009 - December, 2009] * link:report-2009-04-2009-09/[April, 2009 - September, 2009] * link:report-2009-01-2009-03/[January, 2009 - March, 2009] == 2008 * link:report-2008-10-2008-12/[October, 2008 - December, 2008] * link:report-2008-07-2008-09/[July, 2008 - September, 2008] * link:report-2008-04-2008-06/[April, 2008 - June, 2008] * link:report-2008-01-2008-03/[January, 2008 - March, 2008] == 2007 * link:report-2007-10-2007-12/[October, 2007 - December, 2007] * link:report-2007-07-2007-10/[July, 2007 - October, 2007] * link:report-2007-04-2007-06/[April, 2007 - June, 2007] * link:report-2007-01-2007-03/[January, 2007 - March, 2007] == 2006 * link:report-2006-10-2006-12/[October, 2006 - December, 2006] * link:report-2006-06-2006-10/[June, 2006 - October, 2006] * link:report-2006-04-2006-06/[April, 2006 - June, 2006] * link:report-2006-01-2006-03/[January, 2006 - March, 2006] == 2005 * link:report-2005-10-2005-12/[October, 2005 - December, 2005] * link:report-2005-07-2005-10/[July, 2005 - October, 2005] * link:report-2005-03-2005-06/[March, 2005 - June, 2005] * link:report-2005-01-2005-03/[January, 2005 - March, 2005] == 2004 * link:report-2004-07-2004-12/[July, 2004 - December, 2004] * link:report-2004-05-2004-06/[May, 2004 - June, 2004] * link:report-2004-03-2004-04/[March, 2004 - April, 2004] * link:report-2004-01-2004-02/[January, 2004 - February, 2004] == 2003 * link:report-2003-10-2003-12/[October, 2003 - December, 2003] * link:report-2003-03-2003-09/[March, 2003 - September, 2003] * link:report-2003-01-2003-02/[January, 2003 - February, 2003] == 2002 * link:report-2002-11-2002-12/[November, 2002 - December, 2002] * link:report-2002-09-2002-10/[September, 2002 - October, 2002] * link:report-2002-07-2002-08/[July, 2002 - August, 2002] * link:report-2002-05-2002-06/[May, 2002 - June, 2002] * link:report-2002-02-2002-04/[February, 2002 - April, 2002] * link:report-2001-12-2002-01/[December, 2001 - January, 2002] == 2001 * link:report-2001-11/[November, 2001] * link:report-2001-09/[September, 2001] * link:report-2001-08/[August, 2001] * link:report-2001-07/[July, 2001] * link:report-2001-06/[June, 2001] diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/_index.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/_index.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..40e43c766f --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/_index.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +--- +title: "FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report First Quarter 2022" +sidenav: about +--- + += Introduction +:doctype: article +:toc: macro +:toclevels: 2 +:icons: font +:!sectnums: +:source-highlighter: rouge +:experimental: +:reports-path: content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03 + +include::{reports-path}/intro.adoc[] + +''' + +toc::[] + +''' + +[[FreeBSD-Team-Reports]] +== FreeBSD Team Reports + +Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, as found in the +link:../../administration/[Administration Page]. + +include::{reports-path}/freebsd-foundation.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/releng.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/clusteradm.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/ci.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/portmgr.adoc[] + +''' + +[[projects]] +== Projects + +Projects that span multiple categories, from the kernel and userspace to the +Ports Collection or external projects. + +include::{reports-path}/accessibility.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/boot-performance.adoc[] + +''' + +[[kernel]] +== Kernel + +Updates to kernel subsystems/features, driver support, filesystems, and more. + +include::{reports-path}/ena.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/gunion.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/rtw88.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/iwlwifi.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/ocf-wg.adoc[] + +''' + +[[documentation]] +== Documentation + +Noteworthy changes in the documentation tree, man-pages, or new external +books/documents. + +include::{reports-path}/doceng.adoc[] + +''' + +[[ports]] +== Ports + +Changes affecting the Ports Collection, whether sweeping changes that touch most +of the tree, or individual ports themselves. + +include::{reports-path}/kde.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/office.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/gcc.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/portconfig.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/wifibox.adoc[] + +''' + +[[third-Party-Projects]] +== Third Party Projects + +Many projects build upon FreeBSD or incorporate components of FreeBSD into their +project. As these projects may be of interest to the broader FreeBSD community, +we sometimes include brief updates submitted by these projects in our quarterly +report. The FreeBSD project makes no representation as to the accuracy or +veracity of any claims in these submissions. + +include::{reports-path}/hellosystem.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/pot.adoc[] + +''' + +include::{reports-path}/fpart.adoc[] diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/accessibility.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/accessibility.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f91908d2c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/accessibility.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +=== FreeBSD Accessibility + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Accessibility[Accessibility wiki page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Accessibility[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Accessibility] + +link:https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-accessibility/2021-October/000000.html[List introduction, goals, audience, and ground rules] URL: link:https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-accessibility/2021-October/000000.html[link:https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-accessibility/2021-October/000000.html] + + +Contact: Pau Amma + +Contact: FreeBSD accessibility discussions + +Over the past several months, I've started putting together tools and resources to help make the FreeBSD ecosystem (more) accessible to people with disabilities: + +* a link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-accessibility[mailing list] +* a link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Accessibility[set of wiki pages] including link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Accessibility/Resources[resources] and a link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Accessibility/Wishlist[categorized wish list] +* tooling including a link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=accessibility&list_id=471790&resolution=---[searchable accessibility Bugzilla keyword] and an link:https://reviews.freebsd.org/project/profile/87/[accessibility Phabricator group] + +I need all the help I can get with: + +* specifying, designing, implementing, and testing the items on the wishlist +* adding to the wishlist in areas were have little or no experience or for things I missed +* moving beyond software and documentation to processes and culture diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/boot-performance.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/boot-performance.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3d0503f1cc --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/boot-performance.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +=== Boot Performance Improvements + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootTime[Wiki page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootTime[https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootTime] + +link:https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2021-08-12-EC2-boot-time-benchmarking.html[OS boot time comparison] URL: link:https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2021-08-12-EC2-boot-time-benchmarking.html[https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2021-08-12-EC2-boot-time-benchmarking.html] + +Contact: Colin Percival + +Colin Percival is coordinating an effort to speed up the FreeBSD boot process. +For benchmarking purposes, he is primarily using an EC2 c5.xlarge instance as a +reference platform and is measuring the time between when the virtual machine +enters the EC2 "running" state and when it is possible to SSH into the instance. + +This work started in 2017, and as of the end of December 2021 the FreeBSD boot +time was reduced from approximately 30 seconds to approximately 10 seconds. +During 2022Q1, further improvements have shaved more time off the boot process, +taking it down to roughly 8 seconds. + +Two major issues remain outstanding: + +. The first time an EC2 instance boots, dhclient takes about 2 seconds longer +than normal to get an IPv4 address. The cause of this is unknown and requires +investigation. + +. IPv6 configuration includes two one-second-long sleep(1) invocations, one +from /etc/rc.d/netif and the other from /etc/rc.d/rtsold. It might be possible +to simply remove these; but care is needed to avoid progressing too far in the +boot process before IPv6 addresses are configured. Input from IPv6 experts +is required here. + +Issues are listed on the wiki page as they are identified; the wiki page also +has instructions for performing profiling. Users are encouraged to profile +the boot process on their own systems, in case they experience delays which +don't show up on the system Colin is using for testing. + +This work is supported by Colin's FreeBSD/EC2 Patreon. + +Sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ci.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ci.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..78afdb4e4a --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ci.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +=== Continuous Integration + +Links: + +link:https://ci.FreeBSD.org[FreeBSD Jenkins Instance] URL: link:https://ci.FreeBSD.org[https://ci.FreeBSD.org] + +link:https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org[FreeBSD CI artifact archive] URL: link:https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org[https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org] + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins[FreeBSD Jenkins wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins] + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HostedCI[Hosted CI wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HostedCI[https://wiki.freebsd.org/HostedCI] + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartySoftwareCI[3rd Party Software CI] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartySoftwareCI[https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartySoftwareCI] + +link:https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9maauwg[Tickets related to freebsd-testing@] URL: link:https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9maauwg[https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9maauwg] + +link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci[FreeBSD CI Repository] URL: link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci[https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci]+ +link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/dev-ci[dev-ci Mailing List] URL: link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/dev-ci[https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/dev-ci] + +Contact: Jenkins Admin + +Contact: Li-Wen Hsu + +Contact: link:https://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing[freebsd-testing Mailing List] + +Contact: IRC #freebsd-ci channel on EFNet + +The FreeBSD CI team maintains the continuous integration system of the FreeBSD project. +The CI system checks the committed changes can be successfully built, then performs various tests and analysis over the newly built results. +The artifacts from those builds are archived in the link:https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org[artifact server] for further testing and debugging needs. +The CI team members examine the failing builds and unstable tests and work with the experts in that area to fix the code or adjust test infrastructure. + +During the first quarter of 2022, we continued working with the contributors and developers in the project to fulfil their testing needs and also keep collaborating with external projects and companies to improve their products and FreeBSD. + +Important changes: + +* link:https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-main-amd64-dtrace_test/[DTrace tests] are running with KASAN now. +* Fixed and resumed the powerpc64le test jobs. + +Retired jobs: + +* The jobs of main branch on mips* were removed. + +Work in progress and open tasks: + +* Designing and implementing pre-commit CI building and testing (to support the link:https://gitlab.com/bsdimp/freebsd-workflow[workflow working group]) +* Designing and implementing use of CI cluster to build release artifacts as release engineering does +* Collecting and sorting CI tasks and ideas link:https://hackmd.io/@FreeBSD-CI/freebsd-ci-todo[here] +* Testing and merging pull requests in link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci/pulls[the FreeBSD-ci repo] +* Reducing the procedures of CI/test environment setting up for contributors and developers +* Setting up the CI stage environment and putting the experimental jobs on it +* Setting up public network access for the VM guest running tests +* Implementing using bare metal hardware to run test suites +* Adding drm ports building tests against -CURRENT +* Planning to run ztest tests +* Adding more external toolchain related jobs +* Improving maturity of the hardware lab and adding more hardware under test +* Helping more software get FreeBSD support in its CI pipeline (Wiki pages: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartySoftwareCI[3rdPartySoftwareCI], link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HostedCI[HostedCI]) +* Working with hosted CI providers to have better FreeBSD support + +Please see link:https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9maauwg[freebsd-testing@ related tickets] for more WIP information, and don't hesitate to join the effort! + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/clusteradm.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/clusteradm.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c78e7c0543 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/clusteradm.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +=== Cluster Administration Team + +Links: + +link:https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-clusteradm[Cluster Administration Team members] URL: link:https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-clusteradm[https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-clusteradm] + +Contact: Cluster Administration Team + +FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team members are responsible for managing the machines the Project relies on to synchronise its distributed work and communications. +In this quarter, the team has worked on the following: + +* Improved web service performance and security +** Moved some critical services to newer machines +** Swept all services to ensure the support of TLS v1.2 and v1.3 and disable v1 and v1.1 +** Enabled dual-stack certificates for the primary FreeBSD web services. + + ECDSA and RSA certificates, preferring ECDSA, discussed with secteam@, benefit the project in favor of security and performance matter. +* Infrastructure improvements at primary site +** Evicted some very old hardware +** Moved cluster internal services to newer hardware +*** Build host +*** Parts of LDAP, kerberos, DNS and NTP +* Installed an additional aarch64 package builder +** ampere3.nyi.freebsd.org +** Identical specs to ampere[12].nyi.freebsd.org +* Moved ftp0.nyi.freebsd.org to an aarch64 machine. +* Main distributed mirror site, download.freebsd.org, enhancements +** Updated link:https://download.freebsd.org/doc/[offline documentation] (PDF and HTML) in the mirrors. + + The old directory `/doc` is now on link:http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/mirror/FreeBSD-Archive/old-docs/[ftp-archive]; it contains files prior to the Hugo/Asciidoctor migration. +** Moved ports INDEX files to distributed mirror, download.freebsd.org +** Removed `/ftp` from the canonical URLs of files on download.freebsd.org. + + Old URLs are still valid. +* Cleanup of Handbook/Mirrors section + + Much stale information; now there is more info about the official mirrors and locations. Former official mirrors are now named 'Community mirrors'. +* Ongoing day to day cluster administration +** Cluster refresh +** Replacing failed disks +** Babysitting pkgsync + +Work in progress: + +* Improve the package building infrastructure +* Review the service jails and service administrators operation +* Set up powerpc pkgbuilder/ref/universal machines +* Search for more providers that can fit the requirements for a link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/generic-mirror-layout[generic mirrored layout] or a link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror[tiny mirror] +* Work with doceng@ to improve https://www.freebsd.org and https://docs.freebsd.org +* Improve the web service architecture +* Improve the cluster backup plan +* Improve the log analysis system +* Set up Australia mirror +* Hardware refresh diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/doceng.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/doceng.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cc74e6d63a --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/doceng.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +//// +Quarter: 1st quarter of 2022 +Prepared by: dbaio +Reviewed by: carlavilla +Last edit: $Date: 2022-04-09 09:51:36 -0300 (Sat, 09 Apr 2022) $ +Version: $Id: doceng-2022-1st-quarter-status-report.adoc 221 2022-04-09 12:51:36Z dbaio $ +//// + +=== Documentation Engineering Team + +Link: link:https://www.freebsd.org/docproj/[FreeBSD Documentation Project] + +Link: link:https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/fdp-primer/[FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors] + +Link: link:https://www.freebsd.org/administration/#t-doceng[Documentation Engineering Team] + +Contact: FreeBSD Doceng Team + +The doceng@ team is a body to handle some of the meta-project issues associated with the FreeBSD Documentation Project; for more information, see link:https://www.freebsd.org/internal/doceng/[FreeBSD Doceng Team Charter]. + +No new documentation commit bit was granted during the last quarter, and only one commit bit was safe kept. + +Several tasks were completed related to the doc tree during the last quarter: + +* Fix some issues in the translation workflow with PO files and Weblate related to the po4a program. ++ +More info link:https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-translators/2022-February/000029.html[here]. + +* Update link:https://download.freebsd.org/doc/[offline documentation (PDF and HTML)]. ++ +The old directory /doc is now on link:http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/mirror/FreeBSD-Archive/old-docs/[ftp-archive]; it contains files prior to the Hugo/Asciidoctor migration. + +* Remove Google Analytics from documentation and website. + +* Add last modified information to the documentation and website pages. + +* Tag FreeBSD docset for 13.1-RELEASE. + +* Add the first Indonesian translation to the doc tree. + + +==== FreeBSD Translations on Weblate + +Link: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Doc/Translation/Weblate[Translate FreeBSD on Weblate] + +Link: link:https://translate-dev.freebsd.org/[FreeBSD Weblate Instance] + +The translation workflow with Weblate is more mature at this point. +Several issues were fixed between PO files and po4a program. + +We welcome everyone to try our Weblate instance to translate a few documents. + +The first Indonesian translation was added to the FreeBSD project. +We thank Azrael JD for the contribution, and we are looking forward to seeing more Indonesian translations. + +===== Q1 2022 Status + +* 12 languages (1 new language) +* 142 registered users + +===== Languages + +* Chinese (Simplified) (zh-cn) +* Chinese (Traditional) (zh-tw) +* Dutch (nl) +* French (fr) +* German (de) +* Indonesian (id) - Added +* Italian (it) +* Norwegian (nb-no) +* Persian (fa-ir) +* Portuguese (pt-br) +* Spanish (es) +* Turkish (tr) + +We want to thank everyone that contributed, translating or reviewing documents. + +And please, help promote this effort on your local user group, we always need more volunteers. + + +==== FreeBSD Website Revamp - WebApps working group + +Contact: Sergio Carlavilla + +Working group in charge of creating the new FreeBSD Documentation Portal and redesigning the FreeBSD main website and its components. +FreeBSD developers can follow and join the working group on the FreeBSD Slack channel #wg-www21. +The work will be divided into four phases: + +. Redesign of the Documentation Portal ++ +Create a new design, responsive and with global search. (_Complete_) + +. Redesign of the Manual Pages on web ++ +Scripts to generate the HTML pages using mandoc. (_Work in progress_) + +. Redesign of the Ports page on web ++ +Ports scripts to create an applications portal. (_Work in progress_) + +. Redesign of the FreeBSD main website ++ +New design, responsive and dark theme. (_Not started_) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/dpaa2.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/dpaa2.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3ccc689b10 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/dpaa2.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +== NXP DPAA2 support + +Links + +link:https://github.com/mcusim/freebsd-src/tree/lx2160acex7-dev/sys/dev/dpaa2[Development] URL: https://github.com/mcusim/freebsd-src/tree/lx2160acex7-dev/sys/dev/dpaa2[https://github.com/mcusim/freebsd-src/tree/lx2160acex7-dev/sys/dev/dpaa2] + + +Contact: Dmitry Salychev + +Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb + +Some of the NXP SoCs (LX2160A, LS1088A) are shipped with +link:https://www.nxp.com/design/qoriq-developer-resources/second-generation-data-path-acceleration-architecture-dpaa2:DPAA2[DPAA2], +the second generation of the data path acceleration architecture. It allows to +dynamically configure and wire packet processing "objects" (like DPNI for a +network interface, DPMAC for media access controller, etc.) together to form a +network-on-a-chip. + +link:https://solidrun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/developer/pages/197494288/HoneyComb+LX2+ClearFog+CX+LX2+Quick+Start+Guide[Honeycomb LX2], +as one of the powerful ARM64 boards from SolidRun, is also built around NXP +LX2160A and lacks on-board GbE support in FreeBSD. These drivers are about to +change it. + +It's still work in progress and a rough implementation of the drivers for some +DPAA2 objects is available at the moment. A new network interface (dpni) can be +used on Honeycomb for testing. + +TODO: + +* Update dpaa2_mc_fdt driver for the link:https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64[Traverse Ten64] board + +* Review and fix DPAA2 resources allocation to support as many DPNIs as possible + +* Free driver resources properly + +* Implement CPU affinity for DPIOs and DPNIs + +* Implement cached memory-backed software portals + +* Profile and mitigate bottlenecks + +Sponsor: Bare Enthusiasm :) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ena.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ena.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4f2edefd50 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ena.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +=== ENA FreeBSD Driver Update + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers/blob/master/kernel/fbsd/ena/README[ENA README] URL: link:https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers/blob/master/kernel/fbsd/ena/README[https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers/blob/master/kernel/fbsd/ena/README] + +Contact: Michal Krawczyk + +Contact: Dawid Gorecki + +Contact: Marcin Wojtas + +ENA (Elastic Network Adapter) is the smart NIC available in the virtualized environment of Amazon Web Services (AWS). +The ENA driver supports multiple transmit and receive queues and can handle up to 100 Gb/s of network traffic, depending on the instance type on which it is used. + +Completed since the last update: + +* Add IPv6 layer 4 checksum offload support to the driver +* Add NUMA awareness to the driver when the RSS kernel option is enabled +* Rework validation of the Tx request ID +* Change lifetime of the driver's timer service +* Avoid reset triggering when the device is unresponsive + +Work in progress: + +* Prototype the driver port to the iflib framework +* Tests of the incoming ENA driver release (v2.5.0) + +Sponsor: Amazon.com Inc diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/fpart.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/fpart.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ecd0a060ff --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/fpart.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +=== Fpart and fpsync + +Links: + +link:https://www.fpart.org[Project site and documentation] URL: link:https://www.fpart.org[https://www.fpart.org] + +link:https://github.com/martymac/fpart[Development] URL: link:https://github.com/martymac/fpart[https://github.com/martymac/fpart] + +link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fpart[Port] URL: link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fpart[https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fpart] + +Contact: Ganael Laplanche + +==== What is fpart ? + +Fpart is a *filesystem partitioner*. It helps you sort file trees and pack them into bags ("partitions"). + +It uses FreeBSD's fts(3) implementation (GNU/Linux builds can also use it as an option), which makes it crawl filesystems very fast. + +A hook facility is provided to trigger actions on the partitions produced. + +==== What is fpsync ? + +Fpsync is a companion script that uses fpart under the hood to parallelize rsync(1) or cpio(1) jobs, making it a simple but powerful data migration tool. Those jobs can be run either locally or remotely (using SSH). Fpsync is link:https://www.fpart.org/links/[often used by researchers and cloud providers] where lots of data need to be moved and clusters are available to speed up transfers. + +==== Q1 2022 Status + +Both tools continued to evolve and saw several bugs fixed; see the link:https://www.fpart.org/changelog/[changelog]. + +Also, a user reported a major bug regarding our fts(3) implementation, which ignores readdir(3) errors. I have reported the bug in our Bugzilla: + +link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262038[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262038] + +It should be merged soon (hopefully). + +Last but not least, fpart has been link:https://sill.etalab.gouv.fr/fr/software?id=229[referenced in the French Government's 'SILL']. + +==== Contributing + +If you are interested in contributing, have a look at the link:https://github.com/martymac/fpart/blob/master/TODO[TODO list]. + +Any contribution is welcome, more especially in the field of unit testing. diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/freebsd-foundation.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/freebsd-foundation.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..71be9af883 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/freebsd-foundation.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +=== FreeBSD Foundation + +Links: + +link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org[FreeBSD Foundation] URL: link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org[https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org] + +link:https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/[Technology Roadmap] URL: link:https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/[https://FreeBSDFoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/] + +link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/[Donate] URL: link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/[https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/donate/] + +link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/[Foundation Partnership Program] URL: link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program[https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program] + +link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/[FreeBSD Journal] URL: link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/[https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/journal/] + +link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/[Foundation News and Events] URL: link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/[https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/news-and-events/] + + +Contact: Deb Goodkin + +The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated +to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community +worldwide. Donations from individuals and corporations are used to fund +and manage software development projects, conferences, and developer +summits. We also provide travel grants to FreeBSD contributors, purchase +and support hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure, and +provide resources to improve security, quality assurance, and release +engineering efforts. We publish marketing material to promote, educate, +and advocate for the FreeBSD Project, facilitate collaboration between +commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers, and finally, represent the +FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other +legal arrangements that require a recognized legal entity. + +Here are some highlights from the Foundation for the first quarter of +2022. + +==== Fundraising Efforts + +As promised, we updated our fundraising meter for 2022. So far, we’ve +raised over $84,000 towards our 2022 goal of $1,400,000. We’d like to +thank our individual and corporate donors for supporting our efforts +this year. We’d also like to give a big shout out to our Gold Sponsor, +Facebook, Silver Sponsors, VMware and Tarsnap, and the companies that +provide free hosting for the Project: Bytemark, 365 Data Centers, NYI, +NextArray, Sentex Data Communications, and the Computer Science +Department at NCTU. + +You can find out how we spent your donations by reading about what we +supported in Q1, in this report, and our Spring Newsletter. + +If you haven’t made a donation this year, please consider making a donation +now at https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/. + +We also have a Partnership Program for larger commercial donors. You can +find out more at +https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/freebsd-foundation-partnership-program/ + +==== OS Improvements + +During the first quarter of 2022, 372 src, 41 ports, and 16 doc tree +commits were made that identified The FreeBSD Foundation as a sponsor. +# This represents 16, 0.4, and 5% of the total number of commits in each repository. + +You can read about Foundation-sponsored projects in individual quarterly report +entries: + +* Crypto changes for WireGuard +* Intel Wireless driver support + +Here is a small sample of other base system improvements from Foundation +developers this quarter that do not have separate report entries. + +==== riscv: Add support for enabling SV48 mode + +SV48 is intended for systems for which a 39-bit virtual address space is +insufficient. This change increases the size of the user map from 256GB +to 128TB. The kernel map is left unchanged for now. + +For now SV48 mode is left disabled by default, but can be enabled with a +tunable. Note that extant hardware does not implement SV48, but QEMU +does. + +* In pmap_bootstrap(), allocate a L0 page and attempt to enable SV48 + mode. If the write to SATP doesn't take, the kernel continues to run + in SV39 mode. +* Define VM_MAX_USER_ADDRESS to refer to the SV48 limit. In SV39 mode, + the region [VM_MAX_USER_ADDRESS_SV39, VM_MAX_USER_ADDRESS_SV48] is not + mappable. + +==== Add v3 support to CTF tools + +CTF, the Compact C Type Format, is a representation of type information +most often contained within ELF binaries. This type information is +helpful for probing tools like DTrace. Recent work by Mark Johnston +allows different Dtrace providers like the FBT (Function Boundary +Tracing) provider to work with version 3 of CTF. + +==== FreeBSD on the Framework Laptop + +Two Foundation staff members, Ed Maste and Mark Johnston, as well as a few developers and community members now each have access to Framework laptops, which are designed to make hardware upgrades, repairs, and customizations straightforward for the average user. The goal of this work is to ensure that the experience running FreeBSD on the laptops matches the stability that FreeBSD users expect. + +Recent improvements and fixes include: + +* Making audio switch appropriately between speakers and the headphone jack when headphones are plugged in or unplugged +* Fixing bug 259230, which would cause a Framework laptop to reboot or power off when the touchpad was used. +* Adding the Tempo Semiconductor 92HD95B HDA codec ID +* Temporarily fixing stalled usb enumeration, bluetooth, and S3 resume. The temporary fix is to avoid attaching to several newer Intel controllers, which require firmware to be loaded, which is different from that implemented by ng_ubt_intel and iwmbtfw, so they are not usable yet. +* Avoiding a 16 second boot delay, by probing the TSC frequency earlier. This lets us use the TSC to implement early DELAY, limiting the use of the sometimes-unreliable 8254 PIT. + +You can follow news about FreeBSD work on the Framework laptop at: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Framework_Laptop. + +==== Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance + +The Foundation provides a full-time staff member and funds projects to improve +continuous integration, automated testing, and overall quality assurance efforts +for the FreeBSD project. + +==== Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure + +The Foundation provides hardware and support for the Project. At the +time of writing, the server that will become the new Australian mirror +has arrived in Australia, has a fresh FreeBSD install and will shortly +join the cluster. + +==== FreeBSD Advocacy and Education + +Much of our effort is dedicated to Project advocacy. This may involve +highlighting interesting FreeBSD work, producing literature, attending +events, or giving presentations. The goal of the literature we produce +is to teach people FreeBSD basics and help make their path to adoption +or contribution easier. Other than attending and presenting at events, +we encourage and help community members run their own FreeBSD events, +give presentations, or staff FreeBSD tables. + +The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, and summits +around the globe. These events can be BSD-related, open source, or +technology events geared towards underrepresented groups. We support the +FreeBSD-focused events to help provide a venue for sharing knowledge, +working together on projects, and facilitating collaboration between +developers and commercial users. This all helps provide a healthy +ecosystem. We support the non-FreeBSD events to promote and raise +awareness of FreeBSD, to increase the use of FreeBSD in different +applications, and to recruit more contributors to the Project. We are +continuing to attend virtual events and began planning the June 2022 +Developer Summit. + +Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did last quarter: + +* Committed to hosting a FreeBSD Workshop at SCALE 19x and serve as a Media Sponsor - July 28-31, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA + +* Participated in the FLOSS Weekly Podcast - January 5, 2022 + https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/662 + +* Sent out the 2021 Impact Report showcasing how we supported the Project last year. + https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-freebsd-foundation-impact-report/ + +* Hosted a stand at FOSDEM 2022 - Videos from the stand can be found at: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLugwS7L7NMXxwqIRg1PlhgzhNRi1eVdRQ + +* Participated in the Open Source Voices Podcast - Episode to be aired in late April [note from status report team: the episode has indeed be aired and is now available at https://www.opensourcevoices.org/29; unfortunately, there is and will be no transcript.] + +* Began planning the June 2022 FreeBSD Developers Summit taking place virtually, June 16-17, 2022 https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202206 + +* Held a new FreeBSD Friday - How to Track FreeBSD Using Git Pt. 2 + https://youtu.be/Fe-dJrDMK_0 + +* Presented at the St. Louis Unix User Group on March 9, 2022 + https://ow.ly/1QXn50Ivj75 + +* Served as Admins and were accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2022 Google Summer of Code + +* Held an Office Hours session on Google Summer of Code. + https://youtu.be/x-4U1xurmBE + +* Hosted a booth at the virtual Open Source 101 conference on March 29, 2022 + +* New blog posts: + +** link:https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/raid-z-expansion-feature-for-zfs/[RAID-Z Expansion Feature for ZFS In the Home Stretch] +** link:https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/whats-ahead-for-freebsd-and-the-foundation-in-2022/[What's Ahead for FreeBSD and the Foundation in 2022] +** link:https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/work-with-freebsd-in-google-summer-of-code/[Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code] + +* New How-To Guide: link:https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/introduction-to-freebsd-jails/[An Introduction to FreeBSD Jails] + +* New FreeBSD Journal Article: link:https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Contributing-to-FreeBSD-Ports-with-Git.pdf[Contributing to FreeBSD ports with Git] + +We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the professionally +produced FreeBSD Journal. As we mentioned previously, the FreeBSD +Journal is now a free publication. Find out more and access the latest +issues at https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/ + +You can find out more about events we attended and upcoming events at +https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/. + +==== Legal/FreeBSD IP + +The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our responsibility to +protect them. We also provide legal support for the core team to investigate +questions that arise. + +Go to link:https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org[https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org] +to find more about how we support FreeBSD and how we can help you! diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/gcc.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/gcc.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..003d15a7bb --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/gcc.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +=== lang/gcc* ports need some love and attention + +Links: + +link:https://gcc.gnu.org[GCC Project] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org[https://gcc.gnu.org] + +link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/[GCC 11 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/[https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/] + +Contact: toolchain@FreeBSD.org + +Contact: Gerald Pfeifer + +After about two decades of maintaining FreeBSD's lang/gcc* ports, the time came to hand over the baton and mostly step back. +Alas the baton essentially dropped to the floor, despite multiple calls for help. + +Here are a few specific tasks looking for help: + + * Upgrade GCC_DEFAULT in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk from 10 to 11, + including fixing the (luckily minor) fall out of an -exp run: + link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=258378[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=258378] + + * Three changes to work through with upstream GCC (requires src + expertise, not ports): + + ** upstreaming lang/gcc11/patch-gets-no-more + ** upstreaming lang/gcc11/patch-arm-unwind-cxx-support + ** link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=256874[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=256874] + + * We have removed the unmaintained lang/gcc9-devel and lang/gcc10-devel + ports, alas kept lang/gcc11-devel and lang/gcc12-devel which would be + good to see if not weekly, then somewhat regular updates. diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/gunion.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/gunion.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0058476c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/gunion.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +=== A New GEOM Facility, gunion + +Contact: Marshall Kirk McKusick + +The gunion facility is used to track changes to a read-only disk on a writable disk. +Logically, a writable disk is placed over a read-only disk. +Write requests are intercepted and stored on the writable disk. +Read requests are first checked to see if they have been written on the top (writable disk) and if found are returned. +If they have not been written on the top disk, then they are read from the lower disk. + +The gunion facility can be especially useful if you have a large disk with a corrupted filesystem that you are unsure of how to repair. +You can use gunion to place another disk over the corrupted disk and then attempt to repair the filesystem. +If the repair fails, you can revert all the changes in the upper disk and be back to the unchanged state of the lower disk thus allowing you to try another approach to repairing it. +If the repair is successful you can commit all the writes recorded on the top disk to the lower disk. + +Another use of the gunion facility is to try out upgrades to your system. +Place the upper disk over the disk holding your filesystem that is to be upgraded and then run the upgrade on it. +If it works, commit it; if it fails, revert the upgrade. + +The gunion(8) utility is used to create and manage an instance of a gunion. Further details and usage examples can be found in the gunion(8) manual page. +At this time, gunion(8) is available only in 14.0. + +Sponsor: Netflix diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/hellosystem.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/hellosystem.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..07ba012ddd --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/hellosystem.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +=== helloSystem + +Links: + +link:https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/[Documentation] URL: link:https://hellosystem.github.io/[https://hellosystem.github.io/] + +Contact: Simon Peter + +Contact: `\#helloSystem` on `irc.libera.chat`, mirrored to link:https://matrix.to/#/%23helloSystem:matrix.org?via=matrix.org[`#helloSystem:matrix.org` on Matrix] + +==== What is helloSystem? + +helloSystem is FreeBSD preconfigured as a desktop operating system with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. +Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. + +==== Q1 2022 Status + +* Version 0.8.0 of helloSystem is under development and test +** helloSystem 0.8.0 will be based on FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE +** Experimental Live ISOs using FreeBSD 13.1-BETA3 are available +** Initial support for running Linux AppImage files using an optional Debian runtime +** Initial support for the AppImage format in the user interface +** Improved reliability and performance of mounted archives by using fuse-archive +** Various bugfixes + +Installable experimental Live ISO images are available at https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/experimental-13.1. + +==== Contributing + +link:https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md[The project appreciates contributions in various areas]. diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/intro.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/intro.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a24df1bff6 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/intro.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +As things are yet again settling into a new normal, it's once again time for a status report for the FreeBSD Project. + +You may have noticed that this report is also a little on the late side, and it's with regret that it's taken this long to get to it - however, thanks to a few kind souls who've stepped up to the plate, in addition to the folks on the team who do things quietly in the background, future reports should hopefully be more on time. + +So let's get some introductions in order, as yours truly is delighted to accept a hand from Pau Amma who already has been helping with reviews for a while, Lorenzo Salvadore who is stepping up to get some tooling in place to make it less of a chore to make the reports, as well as Sergio Carlavilla who is stepping up to help with all the work that can't be easily automated. + +This report covers a very diverse set of topics including but not limited to accessibility, system boot speed-up, an implementation of GEOM union, changes to the WiFi situation, and many other things. + +We hope you'll enjoy reading it! + +Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, on behalf of the status report team. diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/iwlwifi.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/iwlwifi.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f1f9990407 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/iwlwifi.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +=== Intel Wireless driver support and LinuxKPI 802.11 compatibility layer + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi[iwlwifi status FreeBSD wiki page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi[https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi] + +Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb + +The Intel Wireless driver update project aims to bring support for newer chipsets along with mac80211 LinuxKPI compat code. +The dual-licensed Intel driver code was ported in the past for the iwm(4) native driver; using the LinuxKPI compat framework allows us to use the driver directly and gives support to all the latest chipsets, with only minor local modifications. +Some of the changes made while porting the driver to FreeBSD were kindly incorporated into the upstream Linux driver already. + +During the first quarter work continued with about 70 commits. +Updating the driver and firmware reduced differences to the Linux version and gave us bugfixes and improvements. +Changes to the LinuxKPI 802.11 compatibility layer were made to avoid firmware crashes and possible panics for users along with other improvements. + +Auto-loading support for LinuxKPI PCI drivers was comitted. +This means that iwlwifi(4) will now load automatically during boot if a supported card is detected without any user interactions. +Considering the current state of the driver and the next release a decision was made that iwm(4) supported chipsets will continue to attach to iwm(4) for now and only newer and otherwise unsupported chipsets will use the iwlwifi(4) driver. +This is likely going to change in CURRENT as soon as iwlwifi(4) provides better support than iwm(4). + +The code was merged to the stable/13 branch and the current state will be shipped with the upcoming 13.1-RELEASE. + +In addition to The FreeBSD Foundation thanks need to go to all users who have been testing and reporting back or are patiently waiting for the next update. +For the latest state of the development, please follow the freebsd-wireless mailing list. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/kde.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/kde.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8c88b635d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/kde.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +=== KDE on FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://freebsd.kde.org/[KDE FreeBSD] URL: link:https://freebsd.kde.org/[https://freebsd.kde.org/] + +link:https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD[KDE Community FreeBSD] URL: link:https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD[https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD] + +Contact: Adriaan de Groot + +The KDE on FreeBSD project packages the software from the KDE Community, along with dependencies and related software, for the FreeBSD ports tree. +The software includes a full desktop environment called KDE Plasma (for both X11 and Wayland) and hundreds of applications that can be used on any FreeBSD machine. + +The KDE team (kde@) is part of desktop@ and x11@ as well, building the software stack to make FreeBSD beautiful and usable as a daily-driver graphics-based desktop machine. + +*KDE Qt Patch Collection* The Qt Company did not release Qt 5.15 updates under Open Source licenses in 2021, leaving the Open Source 5.15 version lagging behind the proprietary release. Qt 6 is released under an Open Source license, but for the world of Open Source software that requires Qt 5, there is still a need for updates. The KDE Community fills that need by maintaining a curated set of patches -- generally backported from Qt6 -- to maintain the Open Source version of Qt 5. FreeBSD ports now use this *KDE Qt Patch Collection*, rather than the outdated last Qt 5.15.2 release from the Qt Company. +This landed both in main and the last quarterly branch for 2021, since it brings important bugfixes. + +==== KDE Stack + +* *KDE Plasma Desktop* (all the `*/plasma5-*` ports) was updated to 5.23.5 at the start of the year. Since this happened very shortly after quarterly was branched, this was MFH'ed. The long-term-support release 5.24 landed mid-february. The FreeBSD ports do not stick to LTS releases, and will follow the regular release schedule. 5.24.3 landed on schedule in March. +* *KDE Gear* (the collection of KDE libraries and applicatious outside of the Frameworks and Plasma Desktop groups) was updated to 21.12.1 and MFH'ed. Monthy releases landed as well: 21.12.2 in February. +* *KDE Frameworks* have a monthly release cadence, so 5.90 landed in January, 5.91 in February and 5.92 in March. +* *KDE PIM* currently does not support Contacts stored in a Google account because Google has changed the available REST API. +* *astro/kstars* received its regularly scheduled updates. +* *deskutils/kalendar* was updated. It has now reached the 1.0 stage. +* *deskutils/kodaskanna* was added to the ports tree. It is a simple QR-code scanner for the desktop. +* *deskutils/latte-dock* is an alternative launcher for use in KDE Plasma Desktop and other environments. It was updated to 0.10.7 as part of its monthly releases. +* *devel/okteta*, an editor and viewer for binary data, was updated to 0.26.7, a regular bugfix release. +* *graphics/digikam*, the digital photography manager, was updated to 7.6.0. (Thanks Dima Panov) +* *graphics/kf5-kimageformats* has a new option enabling libheif and HEIC support. +* *graphics/kontrast* was added to the 'accessibility' category. This is a tool for checking color-combinations (e.g. for a website) for sufficient contrast and readability. +* *graphics/krita* was updated to the next big release, Krita 5. (Thanks Max Brazhnikov) +* *lang/kross-interpreters* was fixed for Ruby 3. (Thanks Yasuhiro Kimura) +* *sysutils/plasma5-discover* was updated to resolve some denial-of-service bugs in KDE infrastructure. +* *www/falkon* was updated. After a two-year wait, a new release of the KDE web browser built on Qt WebEngine (itself a wrapper around Chromium internals) arrived upstream and in ports. +* *x11/plasma5-plasma-workspace* now can properly edit login and account information. + + +==== Related Applications + +* *devel/qtcreator* was updated to version 6. A new versioning model has been introduced by upstream, so this will now jump by major release number regularly. (Thanks to Florian Walpen) +* *irc/quassel* was updated. Quassel is a distributed IRC client (think of it as your own personal IRC bouncer). +* *misc/tellico* was updated. Tellico is a "collection manager", for instance collections of books, music, stamps, or FreeBSD releases. +* *net-im/nheko* was updated. This is one of a dozen Matrix clients available in the ports tree. + +=== Elsewhere + +* *archivers/7-zip* is the preferred tool for dealing with 7zip files; this affacts KDE applications that work with archives (like *archivers/ark*). We would like to thank makc@ for stewarding that update. +* *devel/libphonenumber* has bi-weekly updates to chase the exciting world of telephony details. +* *graphics/poppler* was updated to version 22.01. This version requires C++17, which pushes a number of consumers to the newer C++ standard as well. Most consumers were fixed in advance. diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ocf-wg.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ocf-wg.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0d5abf64da --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/ocf-wg.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +=== Kernel Crypto changes to support WireGuard + +Contact: John Baldwin + +During the last quarter, I continued my work to improve the FreeBSD +WireGuard driver. On the FreeBSD side, I added support for the +XChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD cipher. I also added a dedicated API to support +[X]ChaCha20-Poly1035 on small, flat buffers. Finally, I added an API +wrapper for the curve25519 implementation from libsodium. + +For the WireGuard driver, I wrote a series of patches which updates the +driver to use crypto APIs such as those mentioned above in place of +internal cipher implementations. The series also includes a fix to +avoid scheduling excessive crypto tasks as well as a few other small +fixes. This series is pending review. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/office.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/office.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a7175b9377 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/office.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +=== FreeBSD Office Team + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Office[The FreeBSD Office project] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Office[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Office] +link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-office[The FreeBSD Office mailing list] URL: link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-office[https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-office] + +Contact: FreeBSD Office team ML + +Contact: Dima Panov + +Contact: Li-Wen Hsu + +The FreeBSD Office team works on a number of office-related software suites and tools such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice. + +Work during this quarter was focused on providing the latest stable release of LibreOffice suite and companion apps to all FreeBSD users. + +During the 2022Q1 period we pushed maintenance patches for the LibreOffice 7.2 port to the quarterly branch and brought the latest, 7.3, releases +and all companion libraries such as MDDS, libIxion and more to the ports tree. + +Also we are still working on the link:https://github.com/fluffykhv/freebsd-ports-boost[Boost WIP repository] to bring the latest Boost library to the ports. + +We are looking for people to help with the open tasks: + +* The link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=open&email1=office%40FreeBSD.org&emailassigned_to1=1&emailcc1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=substring&query_format=advanced&list_id=374316[open bugs list] contains all filed issues which need some attention +* Upstream link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/editors/libreoffice/files[local patches in ports] + +Patches, comments and objections are always welcome in the mailing list and Bugzilla. diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/portconfig.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/portconfig.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..11401ab1f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/portconfig.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +=== PortConfig + +Links +link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/portconfig/[Repository portconfig] URL: link:https://gitlab.com/alfix/portconfig/[https://gitlab.com/alfix/portconfig/] + + +Contact: Alfonso Sabato Siciliano (upstream) +Contact: Baptiste Daroussin (port) + +FreeBSD provides the Ports Collection to give users and administrators a +simple way to install applications. It is possible to configure a port before +the building and installation. PortConfig is an utility for setting the port +options via a Text User Interface. + +As each terminal has different properties PortConfig can be customized via +environment variables to set up the User Interface, for example: menu size, +theme, borders, and so on; each feature is documented inside the manual. +Further, if a port has a specific 'pkg-help' file, PortConfig will show a Help +button to open a "popup" with help information. + +FreeBSD provides thousands of ports therefore it is not feasible to test +PortConfig for each use; please report any problem. + +Alfonso would like to thank Baptiste Daroussin for the port, suggestions, help, and +testing for this utility and its library. diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/portmgr.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/portmgr.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..65c6e0bca2 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/portmgr.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +=== Ports Collection + +Links: + +link:https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/[About FreeBSD Ports] URL:link:https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/[https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/] + +link:https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing[Contributing to Ports] URL: link:https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing] + +link:http://portsmon.freebsd.org/[FreeBSD Ports Monitoring] URL: link:http://portsmon.freebsd.org/[http://portsmon.freebsd.org/] + +link:https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/[Ports Management Team] URL: link:https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/[https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/] + +link:http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/[Ports Tarball] URL: link:http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/[http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/] + +Contact: René Ladan + +Contact: FreeBSD Ports Management Team + +The Ports Management Team is responsible for overseeing the overall direction of the Ports Tree, building packages, and personnel matters. +Below is what happened in the last quarter. + +Before we start with the usual statistics, portmgr is happy to announce it has successfully restarted its lurker program. +The first two lurkers are pizzamig@ and se@; they will learn about the inner workings of portmgr and bring in new ideas. + +Portmgr also started having bi-weekly meetings, some public results are: +* restarting the lurker program +* fixes to ports going backwards in version +* dropping DragonFlyBSD version checks in bsd.port.mk +* dropping deprecation notes from ports transitively using Python 2.7 + +Currently we have over 46,800 ports in the Ports Tree. There are currently 2,700 open ports PRs of which 680 are unassigned. +The last quarter saw 9,403 commits to the main branch by 157 committers and 683 commits to the 2022Q1 branch by 63 committers. +Compared to last quarter, this means a slight drop in activity to the main branch and a slight +increase in the number of open PRs. + +No new committers joined during the last quarter, portmgr took koobs@' commit bit in for safekeeping because of a lack of recent commits. + +The cluster administration team has provided portmgr with a third aarch64 builder; it is being used for package builds. + +Things that happened in git: +* Two new USES were introduced: +** elfctl to change an ELF binary's feature control note +** minizip to get the correct library dependency on minizip +* Two keywords got removed: +** fcfontsdir (now handled by USES=fonts) +** glib-schemas, it has been replaced by a trigger +* Default versions that changed: +** Lazarus switched to 2.2.0 +** PHP switched to 8.0 +* Some upgrades to major ports: +** Chromium 100.0.4896.60 +** Electron 13.6.9 +** Firefox 99.0 +** Firefox ESR 91.8.0 +** Gnome 41 +** KDE Frameworks 5.92.0 +** KDE Plasma 5.24.4 diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/pot.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/pot.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cbcb21123d --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/pot.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +=== Containers and FreeBSD: Pot, Potluck and Potman + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/bsdpot[Pot organization on github] URL: link:https://github.com/bsdpot[https://github.com/bsdpot] + +Contact: Luca Pizzamiglio (Pot) + +Contact: Stephan Lichtenauer (Potluck) + +Contact: Michael Gmelin (Potman) + +Pot is a jail management tool that link:https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-01-2020-03/#pot-and-the-nomad-pot-driver[also supports orchestration through Nomad]. + +As a result of production testing in a real-world cluster deployment, pot and related projects received stability improvements for controlling the pot lifecycle (i.e., pot prepare/start/stop). + +Various attributes and commands have been developed to improve support of nomad orchestration and batch jobs (e.g., change dns config during clone, ability to disable tmpfs, new last-run-stats command). A new pot release will follow soon. + +Potluck aims to be to FreeBSD and pot what Dockerhub is to Linux and Docker: a repository of pot flavours and complete container images for usage with pot and in many cases nomad. + +Many of the core images like link:https://potluck.honeyguide.net/blog/nomad-server/[Nomad], link:https://potluck.honeyguide.net/blog/consul/[Consul] and link:https://potluck.honeyguide.net/blog/vault/[Vault] that can be used to build a private cloud and orchestration platform, but also e.g. link:https://potluck.honeyguide.net/blog/prometheus/[Prometheus] or link:https://potluck.honeyguide.net/blog/postgresql-patroni/[PostgreSQL Patroni], have reached a stable status over the last quarter and are in production use now. + +To make navigating the evolving pot ecosystem easier, most project resources have been centralized in a dedicated github project: link:https://github.com/bsdpot[https://github.com/bsdpot] + +There, we plan to release ansible playbooks that allow easily creating a FreeBSD based orchestration environment from scratch based on all these tools. + +As always, feedback and patches are welcome. diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/releng.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/releng.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4e91252673 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/releng.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +=== FreeBSD Release Engineering Team + +Links: + +link:https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/schedule/[FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE schedule] URL: link:https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/schedule/[https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/schedule/] + +link:https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/[FreeBSD 13.1 Release Information] URL: link:https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/[https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/] [link added by status report team as this quarterly status report is being published after 13.1-RELEASE has been released] + +link:https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/[FreeBSD releases] URL: link:https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/[https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/] + +link:https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/[FreeBSD development snapshots] URL: link:https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/[https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/] + +Contact: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, + +The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is responsible for setting and publishing release schedules for official project releases of FreeBSD, announcing code freezes and maintaining the respective branches, among other things. + +During the first quarter of 2022, the Release Engineering Team completed work on, and submitted to the developers the 13.1-RELEASE schedule. This will be the second point release from the stable/13 branch. +As of this writing, three BETA builds have been run, with at least two RC builds before the final release, currently scheduled for April 21, 2022. + +We look forward to another consistently stable release at the end of this cycle, as well as many more to come for other branches moving forward. + +Additionally throughout the quarter, several development snapshots builds were released for the *main*, *stable/13*, and *stable/12* branches. + +Sponsor: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate") +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/rtw88.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/rtw88.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f63f007dce --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/rtw88.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +=== Realtek Wireless driver support + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Rtw88[rtw88 status FreeBSD wiki page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Rtw88[https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Rtw88] +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Rtw89[rtw89 status FreeBSD wiki page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Rtw89[https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Rtw89] + +Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb + +While the Intel Wireless driver update project is the main driver behind the work to bring support for newer chipsets and eventually newer IEEE 802.11 standards support, there is also an ongoing effort to support more drivers. +The next two drivers in the (already longer) queue are Realtek's rtw88 and rtw89. + +While the initial driver porting efforts for rtw88 and rtw89 happened on personal time, the LinuxKPI integration has to be done more and more along the Intel wireless driver work and so thanks are also due to The FreeBSD Foundation. + +The rtw88 driver has started to work on some machines with less than 4GB of main memory and was committed to the FreeBSD git repository for broader testing. +While our version of the driver is aware of these limitations, the problem is currently assumed to be outside the driver in the interactions with LinuxKPI and busdma. + +The rtw89 driver has happily started to send packets and has problems receiving frames at this point. +Further investigation will happen as soon as rtw88 is sorted out and it is expected that rtw89 will then also timely follow into FreeBSD's git repository. + +The currently known requirements to compile both drivers have mostly gone into stable/13 and releng/13.1 already. + +For the latest state of the development, please check the referenced wiki pages and follow the freebsd-wireless mailing list. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation (partly) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/wifibox.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/wifibox.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bb245a2210 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/wifibox.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +=== Wifibox: Use Linux to drive your wireless card on FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox[Project GitHub Page] + +link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/net/wifibox[``net/wifibox`` port] + +Contact: PÁLI Gábor János + +Wifibox is an experimental project for exploring the ways of deploying +a virtualized Linux guest to drive wireless networking cards on the +FreeBSD host system. There have been guides on the Internet to +suggest the use of such techniques to improve the wireless networking +experience, of which Wifibox aims to implement as a single easy-to-use +software package. + +- ``bhyve(8)`` is utilized to run the embedded Linux system. This + helps to achieve low resource footprint. It requires an x64 CPU + with I/O MMU (AMD-Vi, Intel VT-d), ~150 MB physical memory, and some + disk space available for the guest virtual disk image, which can be + even ~30 MB only in certain cases. It works with FreeBSD 12 and + later, some cards may require a recent 13-STABLE though. + +- The guest is constructed using https://alpinelinux.org/[Alpine + Linux], a security-oriented, lightweight distribution based on + https://www.musl-libc.org/[musl libc] and + https://busybox.net/[BusyBox]. + +- Configuration files are shared with the host system. The guest uses + ``wpa_supplicant(8)`` so it is possible to import the host's + ``wpa_supplicant.conf(5)`` file without any changes. + +- When configured, ``wpa_supplicant(8)`` control sockets could be + exposed by the guest, which enables use of related utilities + directly from the host, such as ``wpa_cli(8)`` or ``wpa_gui(8)`` + from the ``net/wpa_supplicant_gui`` package. + +- Everything is shipped in a single package that can be easily + installed and removed. This comes with an ``rc(8)`` system service + that automatically launches the guest on boot and stops it on + shutdown. + +- A workaround is supplied for laptops to support suspend/resume. + +Wifibox has been mainly tested with Intel chipsets so far, and it has +shown great performance and stability. Therefore it might serve as an +interim solution until the Intel Wireless support becomes mature +enough. It was confirmed that Wifibox works with Atheros chipsets +too, and feedback is more than welcome about others. Support for +Broadcom chipsets is not yet complete, that is currently a work in +progress. diff --git a/website/data/en/news/news.toml b/website/data/en/news/news.toml index 58a431a09f..5367f2a4e2 100644 --- a/website/data/en/news/news.toml +++ b/website/data/en/news/news.toml @@ -1,2701 +1,2706 @@ # Sort news by year, month and day +[[news]] +date= "2022-06-09" +title = "January-March 2022 Status Report" +description = "The January to March 2022 Status Report is now available with 22 entries." + [[news]] date = "2022-05-12" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 13.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2022-05-05" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 Available" description = "The sixth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2022-04-28" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-RC5 Available" description = "The fifth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2022-04-21" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-RC4 Available" description = "The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2022-04-14" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2022-04-07" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, and powerpcspe architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2022-04-01" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2022-03-24" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2022-03-23" title = "New portmgr lurkers" description = "Portmgr has restarted the portmgr-lurker program and has selected the first two lurkers: Luca Pizzamiglio and Stefan Eßer. They will join portmgr for the coming months and learn all about its inner workings." [[news]] date = "2022-03-17" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, and powerpcspe architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2022-03-10" title = "FreeBSD 13.1-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date= "2022-03-10" title = "October-December 2021 Status Report" description = "The October to December 2021 Status Report is now available with 19 entries." [[news]] date= "2022-02-09" description = "New committer: Alfonso S. Siciliano (src)" [[news]] date = "2021-12-07" title = "FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2021-11-18" title = "FreeBSD 12.3-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-11-15" title = "July-September 2021 Status Report" description = "The July to September 2021 Status Report is now available with 42 entries." [[news]] date = "2021-11-11" title = "FreeBSD 12.3-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date= "2021-11-06" description = "New committer: Dries Michiels (ports)" [[news]] date = "2021-11-04" title = "FreeBSD 12.3-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-10-29" title = "FreeBSD 12.3-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-10-22" title = "FreeBSD 12.3-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-08-27" description = "New committer: Yasuhiro Kimura (ports)" [[news]] date = "2021-08-18" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Ed Maste (doc, src)" [[news]] date = "2021-07-31" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Li-Wen Hsu (doc, ports, src)" [[news]] date = "2021-07-24" title = "April-June 2021 Status Report" description = "The April to June 2021 Status Report is now available with 45 entries." [[news]] date = "2021-07-13" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Philip Paeps (src, ports, doc)" [[news]] date = "2021-07-06" description = "New committer: Daniel Engberg (ports)" [[news]] date = "2021-05-17" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Guangyuan Yang (doc, ports)" [[news]] date = "2021-05-06" title = "January-March 2021 Status Report" description = "The January to March 2021 Status Report is now available with 28 entries." [[news]] date = "2021-04-29" description = "New committer: Charlie Li (ports)" [[news]] date = "2021-04-21" description = "New committer: Oskar Holmlund (src)" [[news]] date = "2021-04-13" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 13.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2021-04-03" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Available" description = "The fifth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-03-29" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 Available" description = "The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-03-21" title = "Reopening Weblate for translations" description = "After the migration to Hugo/AsciiDoctor the weblate tool it's opened again. To get more information check the announcement." [[news]] date = "2021-03-20" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-03-15" description = "New committer: Ka Ho Ng (src)" [[news]] date = "2021-03-12" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-03-06" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-02-27" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-BETA4 Available" description = "The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-02-20" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-02-12" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-02-06" title = "FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2021-02-07" description = "New committer: Fernando Apesteguia Santiago (doc)" [[news]] date = "2021-01-27" description = "New committer: Rajesh Kumar M A (src)" [[news]] date = "2021-01-27" description = "New committer: Nuno Teixeira (ports)" [[news]] date = "2021-01-25" description = "Website and Documentation converted to Hugo and AsciiDoctor" [[news]] date = "2021-01-21" description = "New committer: Lewis Cook (ports)" [[news]] date = "2021-01-16" title = "October-December 2020 Status Report" description = "The October to December 2020 Status Report is now available with 42 entries." [[news]] date = "2021-01-14" description = "New committer: Lutz Donnerhacke (src)" [[news]] date = "2021-01-02" description = "New committer: Neel Chauhan (ports)" [[news]] date = "2020-12-19" description = "FreeBSD src repo to be converted to git. Please see the git wiki for details." [[news]] date = "2020-12-12" description = "New committer: Juraj Lutter (ports)" [[news]] date = "2020-12-05" description = "FreeBSD doc repo converted to git." [[news]] date = "2020-10-27" title = "FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2020-10-21" title = "July-September 2020 Status Report" description = "The July to September 2020 Status Report is now available with 35 entries." [[news]] date = "2020-10-17" title = "FreeBSD 12.2-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-10-10" title = "FreeBSD 12.2-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-10-03" title = "FreeBSD 12.2-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-09-26" title = "FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and powerpcspe architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-09-18" title = "FreeBSD 12.2-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-09-12" title = "FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-08-31" description = "New committer: Rainer Hurling (ports)" [[news]] date = "2020-07-26" description = "New committer: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen (doc)" [[news]] date = "2020-07-23" description = "New committer: Robert Wing (src)" [[news]] date = "2020-07-15" title = "April-June 2020 Status Report" description = "The April to June 2020 Status Report is now available with 51 entries." [[news]] date = "2020-07-01" title = "New FreeBSD Core Team Elected" description = "Active committers to the project have elected your eleventh FreeBSD Core Team. For details, refer to the official announcement." [[news]] date = "2020-06-16" title = "FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2020-06-09" title = "FreeBSD has revised its code of conduct to a new LLVM-derived code of conduct." description = "See Code of Conduct for the revised policy." [[news]] date = "2020-06-08" description = "New committer: Gordon Bergling (doc)" [[news]] date = "2020-06-02" title = "FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey" description = "The FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey is now available. Please feel free to share the survey URL with your employer, co-workers, friends, or any other community members interested in FreeBSD. Survey closes 17:00 UTC on June 16th (Tuesday 10am PDT)." [[news]] date = "2020-05-29" title = "FreeBSD 11.4-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-05-22" title = "FreeBSD 11.4-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-05-16" title = "FreeBSD 11.4-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-05-16" title = "FreeBSD participates in Google Season of Docs" description = "The FreeBSD Project is once again participating as a mentoring organization in the Google Season of Docs program. The goal of the program is to bring open source and technical writers together. Technical writers spend three months working closely with open source communities to bring their expertise to the project's documentation. The list of available tasks and contact information is available on the FreeBSD wiki." [[news]] date = "2020-05-09" title = "FreeBSD 11.4-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2020-04-12" title = "January-March 2020 Status Report" description = "The January to March 2020 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2020-04-06" description = "New committer: Richard Scheffenegger (src)" [[news]] date = "2020-04-01" description = "New committer: Hiroki Tagato (ports)" [[news]] date = "2020-03-10" description = "New committer: Aleksandr Fedorov (src)" [[news]] date = "2020-03-09" description = "New committer: Nick O'Brien (src)" [[news]] date = "2020-02-18" description = "New committer: Lorenzo Salvadore (ports)" [[news]] date = "2020-02-10" description = "New committer: Ryan Moeller (src)" [[news]] date = "2020-01-27" description = "New committer: Alfredo Dal'Ava Júnior (src)" [[news]] date = "2020-01-27" title = "October-December 2019 Status Report" description = "The October to December 2019 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2020-01-21" title = "Translate FreeBSD's official articles and books on Weblate" description = "In order to make the process of translating FreeBSD's official articles and books more accessible to new contributors, the project is adopting Weblate as its web-based continuous localization platform. This tool has been in use for some months by some of our translation teams (pt_BR, es_ES and zh_CN) and due to the excellent results obtained and the maturity of the workflow adopted, we believe we are ready to open it to new collaborators. With the adoption of this new tool the translation process has become quite simple, and anyone willing to donate a few minutes to the project can contribute to it! If you are interested in contributing to the documentation project by translating official documents you can get more information at our wiki and by reading the announcement sent to freebsd-translators list." [[news]] date = "2020-01-10" description = "New committer: Mikaël Urankar (ports)" [[news]] date = "2020-01-02" description = "New committer: Loïc Bartoletti (ports)" [[news]] date = "2019-11-25" title = "July-September 2019 Status Report" description = "The July to September 2019 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2019-11-04" title = "FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2019-10-18" title = "FreeBSD 12.1-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-10-11" title = "FreeBSD 12.1-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-10-11" description = "New committer: Alex Samorukov (ports)" [[news]] date = "2019-10-04" title = "FreeBSD 12.1-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-09-29" description = "New committer: Mateusz Piotrowski (doc)" [[news]] date = "2019-09-28" title = "FreeBSD 12.1-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-09-26" description = "New committer: Pawel Biernacki (src)" [[news]] date = "2019-09-20" title = "FreeBSD 12.1-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-09-15" description = "New committer: Dmitri Goutnik (ports)" [[news]] date = "2019-09-10" description = "New committer: Stephen Gregoratto (src). Working to improve the FreeBSD Project's user manuals for Google's Season of Docs" [[news]] date = "2019-08-28" description = "New committer: Santhosh Raju (ports)" [[news]] date = "2019-08-25" title = "April-June 2019 Status Report" description = "The April to June 2019 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2019-07-16" title = "FreeBSD.org Outgoing Email System Changes" description = "Due to circumstances beyond our control, we need to change the outgoing SMTP server address for FreeBSD.org email. We are aware that there are going to be challenges due to SMTP sender reputation systems. Please see this announcement for additional information." [[news]] date = "2019-07-09" title = "FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2019-06-28" title = "FreeBSD 11.3-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-06-21" title = "FreeBSD 11.3-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-06-14" title = "FreeBSD 11.3-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-06-07" title = "FreeBSD 11.3-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-06-04" title = "January-March 2019 Status Report" description = "The January to March 2019 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2019-05-31" title = "FreeBSD 11.3-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-05-31" description = "New committer: Brandon Bergren (src)" [[news]] date = "2019-05-29" description = "New committer: Chuck Silvers (src)" [[news]] date = "2019-05-28" description = "New committer: D Scott Phillips (src)" [[news]] date = "2019-05-24" title = "FreeBSD 11.3-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2019-05-16" description = "New committer: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado (docs, Spanish translator)" [[news]] date = "2019-04-30" description = "New committer: Doug Moore (src)" [[news]] date = "2019-04-28" title = "CFT FreeBSD pkg base now available" description = "FreeBSD is testing a new approach to pkgbase. See the CFT FreeBSD pkg base message for additional details." [[news]] date = "2019-04-27" title = "FreeBSD 2019 Community Survey" description = "The FreeBSD 2019 Community Survey is now available (update: closed on 2019-05-13). Please feel free to share the survey URL with your employer, co-workers, friends, or any other community members interested in FreeBSD. Survey closes midnight May 13 UTC (Monday 5pm PDT)." [[news]] date = "2019-04-19" title = "CFT FreeBSD + New Upstream ZFS (ZoL)" description = "FreeBSD is testing a new upstream for its ZFS implementation, ZFS on Linux. Images for FreeBSD 12-STABLE and 13-CURRENT images are now available for testing FreeBSD + ZoL (ZFS on Linux). Please see the CFT FreeBSD + ZoL for testing details." [[news]] date = "2019-04-14" description = "New committer: Piotr Kubaj (ports)" [[news]] date = "2019-04-14" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Pedro Giffuni (ports, src)" [[news]] date = "2019-03-20" description = "New committer: Mitchell Horne (src)" [[news]] date = "2019-02-01" description = "New committer: Kai Knoblich (ports)" [[news]] date = "2019-01-19" description = "New committer: Johannes Lundberg (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-12-24" title = "January-September 2018 Status Report" description = "The January to September 2018 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2018-12-11" title = "FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2018-12-11" title = "Cirrus CI Support for FreeBSD" description = "FreeBSD support was recently added to the Cirrus CI system. Cirrus CI makes your development cycle fast, efficient, and secure by leveraging modern cloud technologies. Cirrus CI scales with your team and makes shipping software faster and cheaper. Follow the FreeBSD Virtual Machines guide to find out more." [[news]] date = "2018-12-01" title = "FreeBSD 12.0-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-11-25" title = "FreeBSD 12.0-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-11-17" title = "FreeBSD 12.0-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-11-10" title = "FreeBSD 12.0-BETA4 Available" description = "The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-11-03" title = "FreeBSD 12.0-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-10-27" title = "FreeBSD 12.0-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-10-20" title = "FreeBSD 12.0-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-10-16" description = "New committer: Thomas Munro (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-10-09" description = "New committer: Yuri Pankov (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-10-08" description = "New committer: Vinícius Zavam (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-10-01" description = "New committer: Alexandre C. Guimaraes (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-09-21" description = "New committer: Sergey Kozlov (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-09-06" description = "New committer: Emmanuel Vadot (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-09-02" description = "New committer: Kevin Bowling (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-08-09" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Li-Wen Hsu (ports, src)" [[news]] date = "2018-07-16" description = "New committer: John Hixson (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-07-04" title = "New FreeBSD Core Team Elected" description = "Active committers to the project have elected your tenth FreeBSD Core Team. For details, refer to the official announcement." [[news]] date = "2018-06-30" description = "New committer: Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-06-27" title = "FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2018-06-27" description = "New committer: Ben Widawsky (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-06-19" title = "National FreeBSD Day: FreeBSD is 25 years old today!" description = "On June 19, 1993 the name FreeBSD was officially agreed on and has been used ever since. Find out more about how to celebrate this important day with us." [[news]] date = "2018-06-16" title = "FreeBSD 11.2-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-06-16" description = "New committer: Mateusz Piotrowski (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-06-09" title = "FreeBSD 11.2-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-06-08" title = "Service outage" description = "Portions of the FreeBSD cluster will be offline Saturday, June 9th for an extended maintenance window for electrical work. Services will be affected, most notably mailing list traffic and a portion of our web services. The maintenance window begins June 9th at 11:00 UTC (04:00 US-Pacific) and extends though 20:00 UTC (13:00 US-Pacific)" [[news]] date = "2018-06-02" title = "FreeBSD 11.2-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-05-26" title = "FreeBSD 11.2-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-05-22" description = "New committer: Breno Leitao (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-05-21" description = "New committer: Leandro Lupori (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-05-19" title = "FreeBSD 11.2-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-05-15" description = "New committer: Gleb Popov (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-05-12" title = "FreeBSD 11.2-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2018-04-17" description = "New committer: Sean Eric Fagan (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-04-07" description = "New committer: Tom Jones (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-04-04" description = "New committer: Ram Kishore Vegesna (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-03-23" description = "New committer: Matthias Fechner (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-03-17" description = "New committer: Eric Turgeon (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-03-16" description = "New committer: Vincenzo Maffione (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-03-14" description = "New committer: Koichiro Iwao (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-03-03" description = "New committer: Fernando Apesteguia (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-03-01" description = "New committer: Devin Teske (ports)" [[news]] date = "2018-02-14" title = "FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2018" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2018 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's fourteenth year in the program, having mentored over 210 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2017. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page." [[news]] date = "2018-02-08" description = "New committer: Slava Shwartsman (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-01-25" description = "New committer: Jeb Cramer (src)" [[news]] date = "2018-01-04" title = "About the Meltdown and Spectre attacks" description = "About the Meltdown and Spectre attacks: FreeBSD was made aware of the problems in late December 2017. We're working with CPU vendors and the published papers on these attacks to mitigate them on FreeBSD. Due to the fundamental nature of the attacks, no estimate is yet available for the publication date of patches." [[news]] date = "2017-12-25" title = "July-September 2017 Status Report" description = "The July to September 2017 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2017-11-11" description = "New committer: Jason W. Bacon (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-10-30" description = "New committer: Alex Richardson (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-10-29" description = "New committer: Yuri Victorovich (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-10-04" title = "FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 10.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2017-09-27" title = "April-June 2017 Status Report" description = "The April to June 2017 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2017-09-23" title = "FreeBSD 10.4-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-09-19" description = "New committer: Eugene Grosbein (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-09-18" description = "New committer: Guangyuan Yang (doc)" [[news]] date = "2017-09-17" title = "FreeBSD 10.4-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-09-11" description = "New committer: Craig Leres (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-09-09" description = "New committer: Dave Cottlehuber (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-09-09" title = "FreeBSD 10.4-BETA4 Available" description = "The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-09-08" description = "New committer: Adriaan de Groot (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-09-06" description = "New committer: Chuck Tuffli (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-09-02" description = "New committer: Stephen Hurd (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-09-02" title = "FreeBSD 10.4-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-09-02" description = "New committer: Ilya Bakulin (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-08-28" description = "New committer: Fedor Uporov (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-08-26" title = "FreeBSD 10.4-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-08-25" description = "New committer: Luca Pizzamiglio (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-08-19" title = "FreeBSD 10.4-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-07-26" title = "FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2017-07-18" description = "New committer: Marcin Wojtas (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-07-15" title = "FreeBSD 11.1-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-07-12" description = "New committer: Matt Joras (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-07-08" title = "FreeBSD 11.1-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-07-01" title = "FreeBSD 11.1-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-06-24" title = "FreeBSD 11.1-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-06-20" description = "New committer: Kyle Evans (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-06-17" title = "FreeBSD 11.1-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-06-10" title = "FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2017-06-07" description = "New committer: Ryan Libby (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-05-31" description = "New committer: Richard Gallamore (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-05-16" description = "New committer: Jochen Neumeister (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-05-15" title = "January-March 2017 Status Report" description = "The January to March 2017 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2017-05-03" description = "New committer: Danilo G. Baio (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-04-27" description = "New committer: Vladimir Kondratyev (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-04-18" description = "New committer: Bradley T. Hughes (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-03-04" description = "New committer: Eugene Grosbein (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-03-03" description = "Returning committer: Rodney W. Grimes (src)" [[news]] date = "2017-02-27" title = "FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2017" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2017 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's thirteenth year in the program, having mentored over 200 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2016. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page." [[news]] date = "2017-02-13" title = "October-December 2016 Status Report" description = "The October to December 2016 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2017-02-10" description = "New committer: Mahdi Mokhtari (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-02-08" description = "New committer: Tobias Kortkamp (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-01-10" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Jean-Sébastien Pédron (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-01-09" description = "New committer: Matthew Rezny (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-01-09" description = "New committer: Larry Rosenman (ports)" [[news]] date = "2017-01-09" description = "New committer: Johannes Dieterich (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-12-11" description = "New committer: Piotr Paweł Stefaniak (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-12-11" description = "New committer: Nikolai Lifanov (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-11-15" description = "New committer: Mikhail Pchelin (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-11-13" title = "July-September 2016 Status Report" description = "The July to September 2016 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2016-11-02" description = "New committer: Konrad Witaszczyk (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-11-02" description = "New committer: Michael Dexter (doc)" [[news]] date = "2016-10-22" description = "New committer: David Bright (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-10-10" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2016-09-16" description = "New committer: Sevan Janiyan (doc)" [[news]] date = "2016-09-28" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Status Update" description = "The final 11.0-RELEASE is going to be rebuilt in order to address a few last-minute items that were discovered after the release tag. Please see the official announcement from the Release Engineering team for more information." [[news]] date = "2016-09-17" description = "New committer: Ruey-Cherng Yu (doc)" [[news]] date = "2016-09-17" description = "New committer: Joseph Mingrone (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-09-17" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-08-25" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-08-13" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-08-10" description = "New committer: Toomas Soome (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-08-10" description = "The FreeBSD Core Team has released a statement about the recent freebsd-update and related vulnerabilities." [[news]] date = "2016-08-06" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-BETA4 Available" description = "The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-07-30" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-07-27" title = "April-June 2016 Status Report" description = "The April to June 2016 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2016-07-24" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-07-19" description = "New committer: Michael Zhilin (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-07-19" description = "New committer: Imre Vadasz (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-07-18" description = "New committer: Stephen J. Kiernan (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-07-11" description = "New committer: Carlos J. Puga Medina (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-07-10" title = "FreeBSD 11.0-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-07-06" title = "New FreeBSD Core Team elected" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2016 Core Team election. The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project's \"board of directors\" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every two years since 2000. The FreeBSD Core Team is glad to announce that Matthew Seaman will continue the role of Core Team Secretary. More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement." [[news]] date = "2016-07-06" description = "New committer: Tobias C. Berner (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-07-01" description = "New committer: Eric Badger (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-06-09" description = "New committer: Mike Karels (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-06-04" description = "New committer: Torsten Zuehlsdorff (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-05-31" description = "New committer: Landon Fuller (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-05-09" description = "New committer: Ben Woods (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-05-01" title = "January-March 2016 Status Report" description = "The January to March 2016 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2016-04-23" description = "New committer: Emmanuel Vadot (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-04-04" title = "FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 10.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2016-03-20" title = "FreeBSD 10.3-RC3 Available" description = "The third Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-03-13" title = "FreeBSD 10.3-RC2 Available" description = "The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-03-05" title = "FreeBSD 10.3-RC1 Available" description = "The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-03-01" description = "New committer: Christoph Moench-Tegeder (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-03-01" title = "FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2016" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2016 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's twelfth year in the program, having mentored over 180 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2015. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page." [[news]] date = "2016-02-28" description = "New committer: Phil Shafer (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-02-28" title = "FreeBSD 10.3-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-02-24" description = "New committer: Jared McNeill (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-02-24" description = "New committer: Stanislav Galabov (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-02-17" title = "FreeBSD and glibc (CVE-2015-7547)" description = "Dag-Erling Smørgrav posts some information about FreeBSD and the recent glibc CVE-2015-7547 vulnerability." [[news]] date = "2016-02-17" title = "Analysis of FreeBSD Kernel by PVS-Studio" description = "The development team of the PVS-Studio static code analyzer checked the FreeBSD kernel and published an article describing the most suspicious fragments." [[news]] date = "2016-02-14" title = "FreeBSD 10.3-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-02-06" title = "FreeBSD 10.3-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2016-02-02" description = "New committer: Olivier Cochard-Labbé (ports)" [[news]] date = "2016-02-01" title = "October–December Status Report" description = "The October–December, 2015 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2016-01-18" description = "New committer: Wojciech Macek (src)" [[news]] date = "2016-01-06" title = "FreeBSD Foundation Statement on Harassment" description = "The FreeBSD Foundation has released its initial statement about harassment in the FreeBSD community." [[news]] date = "2016-01-03" description = "The FreeBSD Core team has released an Initial Statement about harassment in the FreeBSD Community" [[news]] date = "2015-12-13" description = "New committer: Anish Gupta (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-11-13" description = "New committer: Ravi Pokala (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-11-01" description = "New committer: Michal Meloun (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-10-26" description = "New committer: Jonathan T. Looney (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-10-25" title = "July–September Status Report" description = "The July–September, 2015 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2015-10-23" description = "New committer: Svatopluk Kraus (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-10-21" description = "New committer: Kurt Lidl (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-09-24" description = "New committer: Andriy Voskoboinyk (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-08-13" title = "FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 10.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2015-08-08" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Marcelo Araujo (ports, src)" [[news]] date = "2015-08-07" title = "FreeBSD 10.2-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2015-08-01" title = "FreeBSD 10.2-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2015-07-30" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Allan Jude (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-07-27" description = "New committer: Jason Unovitch (ports)" [[news]] date = "2015-07-26" title = "April–June, 2015 Status Report" description = "The April–June, 2015 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2015-07-24" title = "FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2015-07-17" title = "FreeBSD 10.2-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2015-07-11" title = "FreeBSD 10.2-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2015-07-05" description = "New committer: Conrad Meyer (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-06-26" title = "Leap Seconds and FreeBSD Article" description = "A new article, FreeBSD Support for Leap Seconds, gives a quick overview of leap second handling. The next leap second will occur at 2015-Jun-30 23:59:60 UTC." [[news]] date = "2015-05-24" description = "New committer: Bernard Spil (ports)" [[news]] date = "2015-04-30" title = "January–March, 2015 Status Report" description = "The January–March, 2015 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2015-04-27" description = "New committer: Mariusz Zaborski (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-04-21" description = "New committer: Michael Moll (ports)" [[news]] date = "2015-04-02" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Mathieu Arnold (ports, doc)" [[news]] date = "2015-03-31" description = "New committer: Matthew Ahrens (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-03-22" description = "New committer: Kristof Provost (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-03-08" description = "New committer: Eric van Gyzen (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-03-08" description = "New committer: Jason Harmening (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-02-11" description = "New committer: Wei Hu (src)" [[news]] date = "2015-01-19" description = "New committer: Jan Beich (ports)" [[news]] date = "2015-01-15" title = "October–December, 2014 Status Report" description = "The October–December, 2014 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2014-12-14" description = "New committer: Muhammad Moinur Rahman (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-12-14" description = "New committer: Eric Joyner (src)" [[news]] date = "2014-11-14" title = "FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 10.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2014-11-02" title = "FreeBSD 10.1-RC4 Available" description = "The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-11-02" title = "FreeBSD turns 21 today!" description = "FreeBSD 1.0, the first official release of FreeBSD was announced 21 years ago today, on November 2nd, 1993. See the original announcement here." [[news]] date = "2014-10-23" title = "FreeBSD 10.1-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-10-23" description = "New committer: Björn Heidotting (doc)" [[news]] date = "2014-10-14" title = "July–September, 2014 Status Report" description = "The July–September, 2014 Status Report is now available." [[news]] date = "2014-10-13" title = "FreeBSD 10.1-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-10-12" description = "New committer: Andrew Rybchenko (src)" [[news]] date = "2014-10-04" title = "FreeBSD 10.1-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-09-28" title = "FreeBSD 10.1-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-09-24" description = "New committer: Julien Charbon (src)" [[news]] date = "2014-09-21" title = "FreeBSD 10.1-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-09-14" title = "FreeBSD 10.1-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-09-09" description = "New committer: Dominic Fandrey (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-08-21" title = "FreeBSD ports tree was born twenty years ago, let's celebrate!" description = "It all started with this commit from Jordan Hubbard on August 21, 1994: \"Commit my new ports make macros. Still not 100% complete yet by any means but fairly usable at this stage.\" A video was prepared to celebrate the event!" [[news]] date = "2014-08-14" description = "New committer: Alonso Schaich (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-08-10" description = "New committer: Dan Langille (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-07-31" title = "The FreeBSD Foundation Semi-Annual Newsletter is Now Available" description = "We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2014 Semi-Annual Newsletter! This is a chance for you to read about what we are doing to help make FreeBSD the best operating system available. Read about funded development projects to improve FreeBSD , sponsored conferences, developer and vendor summits to create face-to-face opportunities, research, how we are doing on our fundraising efforts, and so much more! The 2014 semi-annual newsletter is available online here." [[news]] date = "2014-07-27" description = "New committer: Ngie Cooper (src)" [[news]] date = "2014-07-24" title = "April-June, 2014 Status Report" description = "The April-June, 2014 Status Report is now available with 24 entries." [[news]] date = "2014-07-16" title = "FreeBSD 9.2 EoL pushed back" description = "To facilitate the upgrade process from FreeBSD 9.1 and 9.2 to FreeBSD 9.3, the EoL date for FreeBSD 9.2 has been pushed back to December 31, 2014." [[news]] date = "2014-07-16" title = "FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2014-07-09" title = "New Core Team Secretary: Matthew Seaman" description = "The FreeBSD Core Team is glad to announce that Matthew Seaman has assumed the role of Core Team Secretary." [[news]] date = "2014-07-09" title = "New FreeBSD Core Team elected" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2014 Core Team election. The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project's \"board of directors\" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every two years since 2000. More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement." [[news]] date = "2014-07-06" title = "FreeBSD 9.3-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-07-04" title = "Temporary WITH_NEW_XORG repositories available for FreeBSD 9 and 10" description = "For people needing WITH_NEW_XORG, an alternate pkg(8) repository is now online. It contains a subset of packages affected by this knob. Please see the announce mail for more details." [[news]] date = "2014-06-28" title = "FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-06-21" title = "FreeBSD 9.3-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-06-17" description = "New committer: Bartek Rutkowski (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-06-14" title = "FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-06-11" description = "New committer: Stephen Hurd (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-06-07" title = "FreeBSD 9.3-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-06-01" title = "FreeBSD 9.3-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-05-29" description = "New committer: Patrick Kelsey (src)" [[news]] date = "2014-05-17" description = "New committer: Allan Jude (doc)" [[news]] date = "2014-05-07" description = "New committer: Kashyap Desai (src)" [[news]] date = "2014-05-07" description = "New committer: Stephen McConnell (src)" [[news]] date = "2014-04-24" description = "New committer: Kurt Jaeger (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-04-17" title = "January-March, 2014 Status Report" description = "The January-March, 2014 Status Report is now available with 41 entries." [[news]] date = "2014-04-07" description = "New committer: Johannes Jost Meixner (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-03-11" title = "FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2014" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2014 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's tenth year in the program, having mentored over 160 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2013. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page." [[news]] date = "2014-02-10" title = "FreeBSD Journal First Edition Available" description = "We are pleased to announce the availability of the FreeBSD Journal! It is the new online Journal, that the FreeBSD Foundation is publishing, that is all about FreeBSD. Click here to find out how to get the first issue that is focused on FreeBSD 10." [[news]] date = "2014-01-25" title = "October-December, 2013 Status Report" description = "The October-December, 2013 Status Report is now available with 37 entries." [[news]] date = "2014-01-23" description = "New committer: Rodrigo Osorio (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-01-21" description = "New committer: Tycho Nightingale (src)" [[news]] date = "2014-01-21" description = "New committer: Michael Gmelin (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-01-20" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 10.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2014-01-20" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Jason Helfman (ports, doc)" [[news]] date = "2014-01-15" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Steven Kreuzer (ports, doc)" [[news]] date = "2014-01-13" description = "Returning committer: Bruce A. Mah (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-01-10" description = "New committer: Thomas Zander (ports)" [[news]] date = "2014-01-09" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 Available" description = "The fifth RC build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2014-01-02" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-RC4 Available" description = "The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-12-26" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-12-18" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (doc, src)" [[news]] date = "2013-12-16" description = "New committer: Jonathan Chu (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-12-16" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Bryan Drewery (ports, src)" [[news]] date = "2013-12-16" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-12-09" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-12-09" title = "EuroBSDcon 2013 Developer Summit Report" description = "A special status report on the EuroBSDcon 2013 FreeBSD Developer Summit is now available with 13 entries." [[news]] date = "2013-12-03" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-BETA4 Available" description = "The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-11-27" description = "New committer: Roger Pau Monné (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-11-08" description = "New committer: Alexey Degtyarev (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-11-05" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-11-02" description = "New committer: Julio Merino (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-10-30" title = "Official Binary Packages for Pkg Available" description = "Official binary packages are now available for Pkg for FreeBSD 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0 and head. See the announcement for more information." [[news]] date = "2013-10-28" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-10-20" title = "July-September, 2013 Status Report" description = "The July-September, 2013 Status Report is now available with 30 entries." [[news]] date = "2013-10-14" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-10-09" description = "New committer: Eric Davis (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-10-07" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA5 Available" description = "The fifth ALPHA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-09-30" title = "FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2013-09-29" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 Available" description = "The fourth ALPHA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-09-23" description = "New committer: Danilo Egêa Gondolfo (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-09-18" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA2 Available" description = "The second ALPHA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-09-13" title = "FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1 Available" description = "The first ALPHA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-09-12" title = "FreeBSD 9.2-RC4 Available" description = "The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-09-02" description = "New committer: Ruslan Bukin (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-09-02" description = "New committer: Zbigniew Bodek (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-08-26" title = "FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-08-16" title = "FreeBSD 9.2-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-08-06" title = "The FreeBSD Foundation Semi-Annual Newsletter is Now Available" description = "We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2013 Semi-Annual Newsletter! This is a chance for you to read about what we are doing to help make FreeBSD the best operating system available. Read about funded development projects to improve FreeBSD , sponsored conferences, developer and vendor summits to create face-to-face opportunities, research, how we are doing on our fundraising efforts, and so much more! The 2013 semi-annual newsletter is available online here." [[news]] date = "2013-08-05" title = "FreeBSD 9.2-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-07-31" description = "New committer: Rusmir Dusko (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-07-29" title = "FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-07-22" title = "FreeBSD 9.2-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and ia64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-07-16" title = "April-June, 2013 Status Report" description = "The April-June, 2013 Status Report is now available with 33 entries." [[news]] date = "2013-07-04" description = "New committer: John Marino (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-07-03" description = "New committer: Luiz Otavio O Souza (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-07-02" title = "BSDCan 2013 DevSummit Report" description = "A special status report on the results of the BSDCan 2013 FreeBSD Developer Summit is now available with 6 entries." [[news]] date = "2013-06-25" description = "New committer: Mark Felder (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-06-19" title = "Happy Birthday FreeBSD !" description = "FreeBSD celebrated its 20th birthday today. On June 19, 1993, Jordan Hubbard, Rod Grimes, and David Greenman announced to the world the creation of their new fork of the BSD 4.3 operating system. FreeBSD was derived from the 386BSD 0.1 release from Bill and Lynne Jolitz with its 1.0 release in Nov 1993. Its stated goals were to create a fast, stable, reliable server OS for i386 systems. Since then, it has become the backbone of countless products and has grown to supporting 64bit computing, embedded devices, and desktop users." [[news]] date = "2013-06-11" description = "New committer: Veniamin Gvozdikov (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-06-07" title = "FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes (detailed version) and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 8.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2013-06-04" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Glen Barber (doc, ports, src)" [[news]] date = "2013-05-27" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Chris Rees (doc, ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-05-14" title = "Binary Packages Are Available Again" description = "Six months have passed since the November security incident which brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are pleased to announce that all services are now restored. Read the official announcement here." [[news]] date = "2013-05-12" title = "January-March 2013 Status Report" description = "The January to March 2013 Status Report is now available with 31 entries." [[news]] date = "2013-05-09" title = "FreeBSD Foundation Announces Ed Maste as New Director of Project Development" description = "The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste's new role as the Foundation's part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation's board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position. Read more..." [[news]] date = "2013-05-08" title = "FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD -8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-04-29" title = "New FreeBSD Foundation Technical Staff Member: Edward Tomasz Napierała" description = "The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierała has joined as its second member of technical staff. This is a continuation of the Foundation's plan to invest in staff in 2013. Read more..." [[news]] date = "2013-04-24" description = "New committer: Alan Somers (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-04-24" title = "FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2013 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's ninth year in the program, having mentored over 150 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2012. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page." [[news]] date = "2013-04-22" title = "FreeBSD 8.4-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD -8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-04-18" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Cy Schubert (src, ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-04-12" description = "New committer: Hiren Panchasara (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-04-10" title = "FreeBSD 8.4-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD -8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-04-03" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Antoine Brodin (src, ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-04-01" description = "New committer: William Grzybowski (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-03-27" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Tijl Coosemans (src, ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-03-22" title = "FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2013-03-14" title = "New FreeBSD Foundation Technical Staff Member: Konstantin Belousov" description = "The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Konstantin Belousov has been hired as its first full-time member of technical staff, a key milestone of the Foundation's investment in staff for 2013. Read more..." [[news]] date = "2013-03-12" description = "New member for the Ports Management team: Bryan Drewery" [[news]] date = "2013-03-03" title = "October-December 2012 Status Report" description = "The October to December 2012 Status Report is now available with 27 entries." [[news]] date = "2013-03-03" title = "July-September 2012 Status Report" description = "The July to September 2012 Status Report is now available with 12 entries." [[news]] date = "2013-02-10" description = "New committer: Po-Chien Lin (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-02-01" description = "New committer: Thomas-Martin Seck (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-01-23" description = "New committer: Achim Leubner (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-01-22" description = "New committer: Dru Lavigne (doc)" [[news]] date = "2013-01-16" description = "New committer: Carl Delsey (src)" [[news]] date = "2013-01-15" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: René Ladan (ports, full doc/www)" [[news]] date = "2013-01-14" description = "New committer: David Naylor (ports)" [[news]] date = "2013-01-13" title = "April-June, 2012 Status Report" description = "The April-June, 2012 Status Report is now available with 17 entries." [[news]] date = "2013-01-10" title = "Ports CVS End of Life on February 28th 2013" description = "The development of FreeBSD ports is done in Subversion nowadays. By February 28th 2013, the FreeBSD ports tree will no longer be exported to CVS. Therefore ports tree updates via CVS, CVSup or csup(1) will no longer be available after that date. All users who use CVS, CVSup or csup(1) to update the ports tree are encouraged to switch to portsnap(8) or for users which need more control over their ports collection checkout, use Subversion directly. More information are available in the announcement mail on the FreeBSD ports announce mailing list. A migration guide from CVSup or csup(1) to portsnap(8) is also available in the FreeBSD Handbook." [[news]] date = "2013-01-08" title = "Faces of FreeBSD ‐ Thomas Abthorpe" description = "We are excited to share our next story for our Faces of FreeBSD Series. This is a chance for us to spotlight different people who contribute to FreeBSD and have received funding from us to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for FreeBSD. Let us introduce you to Thomas Abthorpe. We helped him attend BSDCan 2009, 2011, and 2012 by helping with his travel expenses. Read his story here." [[news]] date = "2013-01-07" description = "New committer: Ian Lepore (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-12-31" title = "FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes (detailed version) and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2012-12-24" description = "New committer: Kubilay Kocak (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-12-20" title = "The FreeBSD Foundation End-of-Year Newsletter is Now Available." description = "We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation's 2012 End-of-Year Newsletter." [[news]] date = "2012-12-18" description = "New committer: Mark Johnston (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-12-18" title = "PC-BSD 9.1 is Released" description = "The PC-BSD Team announces the availablilty of PC-BSD 9.1." [[news]] date = "2012-12-18" description = "New committer: Steven Hartland (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-12-17" title = "Faces of FreeBSD ‐ Dan Langille" description = "We are excited to share our next story for our Faces of FreeBSD Series. This is a chance for us to spotlight different people who contribute to FreeBSD and have received funding from us to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for FreeBSD. Let us introduce you to Dan Langille. We helped him by sponsoring BSDCan since 2006. Read his story here." [[news]] date = "2012-12-12" title = "Stunning News Website Fundraising Contribution: Over 650 new donations raise $43,200 in three days!" description = "Astute readers of our blog know that The FreeBSD Foundation's annual year-end fundraising drive began last week. Every year over 50% of our donations arrive during this campaign. Read more..." [[news]] date = "2012-12-10" title = "Faces of FreeBSD ‐ Alberto Mijares" description = "Are you aware of the tangible benefits derived from our support of the FreeBSD community? In conjunction with our year-end fundraising drive we are going to be spotlighting different people on our website, blog, and Facebook page who have received funding to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for FreeBSD. Read more..." [[news]] date = "2012-12-05" title = "FreeBSD Year-End Fundraising Campaign" description = "Your donations have helped make FreeBSD the best OS available! By investing in The FreeBSD Foundation you have helped us keep FreeBSD a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system. Thanks to people like you, the FreeBSD Foundation has been proudly supporting the FreeBSD Project and community for 12 years now. Read more..." [[news]] date = "2012-12-05" title = "FreeBSD Project Website is Using Google Analytics" description = "The FreeBSD Project has enabled Google Analytics to collect anonymised statistics on web site use. More information can be found in the official announcement." [[news]] date = "2012-11-26" description = "New committer: Takuya ASADA (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-11-25" description = "New committer: Barbara Guida (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-11-17" title = "Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure" description = "On Sunday 11th of November, an intrusion was detected on two machines within the FreeBSD.org cluster. We have found no evidence of any modifications that would put any end user at risk. However, we do urge all users to read the report available at https://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html and decide on any required actions themselves." [[news]] date = "2012-11-05" description = "New committer: Bryan Venteicher (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-11-04" description = "New committer: Grzegorz Blach (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-11-03" title = "FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 Available" description = "The third RC build for the FreeBSD -9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, sparc64, and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2012-10-24" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Erwin Lansing (src, ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-10-23" description = "New committer: Simon J. Gerraty (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-10-20" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Eitan Adler (src, ports, doc)" [[news]] date = "2012-10-19" description = "New member for the Ports Management team: Bernhard Fröhlich." [[news]] date = "2012-10-10" title = "FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD -9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2012-09-15" description = "New committer: Peter Jeremy (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-09-13" description = "New committer: Edson Brandi (doc/pt_BR, www/pt_BR)" [[news]] date = "2012-09-10" description = "New committer: Jason E. Hale (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-08-23" title = "FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD -9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2012-08-21" description = "New committer: Andrey Zonov (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-08-01" description = "New committer: Bryan Drewery (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-07-24" title = "New Core Team Secretary: Gábor Páli" description = "The FreeBSD Core Team is glad to announce that Gábor Páli has assumed the role of Core Team Secretary." [[news]] date = "2012-07-16" title = "FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2012-07-11" title = "New FreeBSD Core Team elected" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2012 Core Team election. The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project's \"board of directors\" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every two years since 2000. More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement." [[news]] date = "2012-07-03" description = "New committer: Niclas Zeising (doc/www, ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-06-19" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Glen Barber (doc, ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-06-04" description = "New committer: Mateusz Guzik (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-05-30" description = "New committer: Jase Thew (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-05-29" description = "New committer: Olivier Duchateau (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-05-28" description = "New committer: Tom Judge (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-05-12" title = "January-March, 2012 Status Report" description = "The January-March, 2012 Status Report is now available with 27 entries." [[news]] date = "2012-04-26" description = "New committer: Isabell Long (doc/www)" [[news]] date = "2012-04-22" description = "New committer: Jeremie Le Hen (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-04-18" title = "FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 8.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2012-04-18" description = "New committer: Devin Teske (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-04-15" description = "New committer: Armin Pirkovitsch (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-04-13" description = "New committer: Monthadar Al Jaberi (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-04-12" description = "New committer: Guido Falsi (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-04-02" title = "FreeBSD 8.3-RC2 Available" description = "The second release candidate build for the FreeBSD -8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2012-03-23" description = "New committer: Cherry G. Mathew (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-03-12" description = "New committer: Benjamin Kaduk (doc/www)" [[news]] date = "2012-03-06" title = "FreeBSD 8.3-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD -8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2012-03-01" description = "New committer: Alex Kozlov (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-02-20" title = "FreeBSD 8.3-BETA1 Available" description = "The first test build for the FreeBSD -8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2012-02-16" description = "New committer: Damjan Marion (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-02-16" description = "New committer: Ben Gray (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-02-14" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Sergey Kandaurov (src, doc)" [[news]] date = "2012-02-07" description = "New committer: Matthew Seaman (ports)" [[news]] date = "2012-01-27" description = "New committer: Davide Italiano (src)" [[news]] date = "2012-01-27" title = "October-December, 2011 Status Report" description = "The October-December, 2011 Status Report is now available with 32 entries." [[news]] date = "2012-01-12" title = "FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2011-12-16" description = "New committer: Jason Helfman (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-12-09" title = "FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 Available" description = "The third (and probably last) RC build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility." [[news]] date = "2011-12-08" description = "New committer: Pedro Giffuni (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-12-02" description = "New member for the Ports Management team: Beat Gätzi" [[news]] date = "2011-11-30" description = "New committer: Justin Hibbits (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-11-17" title = "FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 Available" description = "The second RC build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility." [[news]] date = "2011-11-12" description = "New committer: Michael Scheidell (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-11-11" description = "New committer: David Chisnall (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-11-09" description = "New committer: Ruslan Makhmatkhanov (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-11-08" title = "July-September, 2011 Status Report" description = "The July-September, 2011 Status Report is now available with 28 entries." [[news]] date = "2011-10-23" title = "FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 Available" description = "The first RC build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility." [[news]] date = "2011-10-06" description = "New committer: Alexander V. Chernikov (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-09-28" title = "FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available" description = "The third BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems." [[news]] date = "2011-09-27" description = "New committer: Jakub Klama (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-09-19" description = "New committer: Gleb Kurtsou (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-09-18" description = "New committer: Robert Millan (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-09-14" description = "New committer: Warren Block (doc/www)" [[news]] date = "2011-09-14" title = "April-June, 2011 Status Report" description = "The April-June, 2011 Status Report is now available with 36 entries." [[news]] date = "2011-09-13" description = "New committer: Carlo Strub (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-09-07" title = "FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 Available" description = "The second BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems." [[news]] date = "2011-08-22" description = "New committer: Raphael Kubo da Costa (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-08-17" description = "New committer: Eitan Adler (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-08-09" title = "FreeBSD Foundation August 2011 Newsletter" description = "The FreeBSD Foundation has published their first Semi-Annual 2011 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the FreeBSD Project and community." [[news]] date = "2011-08-01" title = "FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 Available" description = "The first test build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems." [[news]] date = "2011-07-17" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Gavin Atkinson (src, doc)" [[news]] date = "2011-07-15" description = "New committer: Ryan Steinmetz (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-06-14" description = "New committer: Grzegorz Bernacki (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-06-13" description = "New committer: Stephen Montgomery-Smith (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-06-11" description = "New committer: Chris Rees (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-06-06" title = "IPv6-only FreeBSD test images" description = "FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems announce IPv6-only test images of FreeBSD and PC-BSD." [[news]] date = "2011-06-06" description = "New committer: Julien Laffaye (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-05-25" description = "New committer: Aleksandr Rybalko (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-05-18" description = "New committer: Ben Laurie (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-05-12" title = "New Port Manager" description = "The Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Baptiste Daroussin as a new member." [[news]] date = "2011-04-27" title = "January-March, 2011 Status Report" description = "The January-March, 2011 Status Report is now available with 34 entries." [[news]] date = "2011-03-29" description = "New committer: Artem Belevich (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-03-27" title = "FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2011" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation In Google's 2011 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's seventh year in the program, having mentored over 100 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2010. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page." [[news]] date = "2011-03-18" description = "New committer: Sofian Brabez (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-03-13" description = "New committer: Pawel Pekala (ports)" [[news]] date = "2011-03-10" description = "The FreeBSD Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Thomas Abthorpe as a full voting member." [[news]] date = "2011-03-05" description = "New committer: Steven G. Kargl (src)" [[news]] date = "2011-02-24" title = "FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 8.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2011-02-24" title = "FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2011-02-18" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Martin Wilke (src, ports, doc)" [[news]] date = "2011-02-03" title = "FreeBSD 7.4/8.2-RC3 Available" description = "The third (and probably last) Release Candidate builds for the FreeBSD -7.4/8.2 release cycles are now available. For 8.2-RC3 the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures are available. For 7.4-RC3 the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available. ISO images for these architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about these releases." [[news]] date = "2011-01-25" title = "October-December, 2010 Status Report" description = "The October-December, 2010 Status Report is now available with 37 entries." [[news]] date = "2011-01-23" title = "FreeBSD 7.4-RC2 Available" description = "The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -7.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release." [[news]] date = "2011-01-16" title = "FreeBSD 8.2-RC2 Available" description = "The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -8.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release." [[news]] date = "2010-12-27" title = "FreeBSD 7.4/8.2-RC1 Available" description = "The first Release Candidate builds for the FreeBSD -7.4/8.2 release cycles are now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about these releases." [[news]] date = "2010-12-16" title = "FreeBSD Foundation December 2010 Newsletter" description = "The FreeBSD Foundation has published their End-of-Year newsletter which summarizes what they have done in 2010 to help the FreeBSD Project and community." [[news]] date = "2010-12-11" title = "FreeBSD 7.4/8.2-BETA1 Available" description = "The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD -7.4/8.2 release cycles is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2010-12-07" description = "New committer: Florian Smeets (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-11-15" description = "New committer: Eygene Ryabinkin (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-11-05" description = "New committer: Zack Kirsch (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-10-27" title = "July-September, 2010 Status Report" description = "The July-September, 2010 Status Report is now available with 55 entries." [[news]] date = "2010-10-16" description = "New committer: Frederic Culot (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-10-07" description = "New committer: Jonathan Anderson (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-10-05" description = "New committer: Sergey Kandaurov (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-09-25" description = "New committer: Ganael Laplanche (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-09-21" description = "New committer: Po-Chuan Hsieh (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-09-05" description = "New committer: Andreas Tobler (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-09-03" description = "New committer: Steve Wills (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-08-31" description = "New committer: Glen Barber (full doc/www)" [[news]] date = "2010-08-30" description = "New committer: Dimitry Andric (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-08-01" description = "New committer: Oliver Hauer (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-07-27" title = "FreeBSD Foundation July 2010 Newsletter" description = "The FreeBSD Foundation has published their Semi-Annual July 2010 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the FreeBSD Project and community." [[news]] date = "2010-07-27" description = "New committer: Baptiste Daroussin (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-07-23" title = "FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 8.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2010-07-22" title = "April-June, 2010 Status Report" description = "The April-June, 2010 Status Report is now available with 47 entries." [[news]] date = "2010-07-21" description = "New committer: Andrew Turner (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-07-20" title = "PC-BSD 8.1 Released" description = "PC-BSD 8.1 has 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. A list of new features/updates since the last version can be found here. The new release can be downloaded or purchased on DVD." [[news]] date = "2010-07-17" description = "New committer: Tijl Coosemans (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-07-15" description = "New committer: Joseph S. Atkinson (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-07-14" title = "New FreeBSD Core Team elected" description = "The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2010 Core Team election. The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project's \"board of directors\" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every 2 years since 2000. More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement." [[news]] date = "2010-07-02" title = "FreeBSD 8.1-RC2 available" description = "The second (and most likely final) Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -8.1 release cycle is now available. CD ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release." [[news]] date = "2010-06-18" title = "FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 Available" description = "The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -8.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release." [[news]] date = "2010-06-10" description = "New committer: Ashish SHUKLA (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-06-09" description = "New committer: Brendan Fabeny (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-06-04" description = "New committer: Matthew Fleming (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-06-03" description = "New committer: Andrey V. Elsukov (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-06-03" description = "New committer: Taras Korenko (doc/ru, www/ru)" [[news]] date = "2010-05-29" title = "FreeBSD 8.1-BETA1 Available" description = "The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD -8.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2010-05-24" title = "Google Summer of Code Projects started" description = "The FreeBSD Project again received many high quality applications from students participating in Google's Summer of Code program. This year 18 student proposals to work with the FreeBSD Project were accepted as part of this program. For those with projects that were not accepted this year, we'd like to note that the FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students so they can learn more about operating system development through our normal community mailing lists and development forums. Please read the official announcement for more information. The complete list of student projects selected for funding can be found in the FreeBSD Summer of Code wiki. Coding started on May 24, so please join us in welcoming the 18 new students to our community." [[news]] date = "2010-05-19" description = "New committer: Jayachandran C. (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-04-29" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Martin Matuška (src, ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-04-22" title = "January-March, 2010 Status Report" description = "The January-March, 2010 Status Report is now available with 46 entries." [[news]] date = "2010-04-20" description = "New committer: Randi Harper (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-04-19" description = "New committer: Ryan Stone (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-04-14" description = "New committer: Ana Kukec (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-04-11" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: René Ladan (doc-nl, ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-04-11" description = "New committer: Sahil Tandon (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-04-05" description = "New committer: Giuseppe Pilichi (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-04-04" title = "The FreeBSD Project Participates in the Google Summer of Code 2010 Program" description = "FreeBSD Project is participating in Google's Summer of Code programme for a sixth year. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for a grant to spend the summer improving the FreeBSD operating system! More information available on the FreeBSD Summer of code page, including a poster to hang up at a university near you!" [[news]] date = "2010-03-31" description = "New committer: Bernhard Fröhlich (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-03-23" title = "FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE Available" description = "FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page." [[news]] date = "2010-03-18" title = "New Ports Management Team Secretary: Thomas Abthorpe" description = "The FreeBSD Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Thomas Abthorpe has assumed the role of Ports Management Team Secretary." [[news]] date = "2010-03-07" description = "Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-03-04" title = "FreeBSD 7.3-RC2 Available" description = "The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2010-03-03" description = "New committer: Neel Natu (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-02-22" title = "PC-BSD 8.0 Released" description = "PC-BSD 8.0 has 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. A list of new features/updates since the last version can be found here. The new release can be downloaded or purchased on DVD." [[news]] date = "2010-02-15" title = "FreeBSD 7.3-RC1 Available" description = "The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2010-02-12" description = "Enhanced commit privileges: Benedict Reuschling (full doc/www)" [[news]] date = "2010-02-06" description = "New committer: Bernhard Schmidt (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-02-02" title = "Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Kövesdán (src, ports, doc)" description = "Gábor Kövesdán participated in Google Summer of Code 2008/2009 and for his work he has been given commit access to the source code. His first pieces of work will be bringing in the result of his summer work into the tree." [[news]] date = "2010-01-30" title = "FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1 Available" description = "The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites." [[news]] date = "2010-01-29" description = "New committer: Bruce Cran (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-01-28" description = "New committer: Ulrich Spörlein (src)" [[news]] date = "2010-01-26" description = "New committer: Romain Tartière (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-01-26" description = "New committer: Alberto Villa (ports)" [[news]] date = "2010-01-17" title = "October-December, 2009 Status Report" description = "The October-December, 2009 Status Report is now available with 38 entries."