diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/alpha-omega-beach-cleaning.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/alpha-omega-beach-cleaning.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..daa50cfd61 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-01-2026-03/alpha-omega-beach-cleaning.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +=== Alpha-Omega Beach Cleaning project + +Links: + +link:https://alpha-omega.dev[Alpha-Omega -- Linux Foundation Project] URL: link:https://alpha-omega.dev[] + +link:https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega[Alpha-Omega on GitHub] URL: link:https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega[] + +link:https://freebsdfoundation.org[FreeBSD Foundation] URL: link:https://freebsdfoundation.org[] + +link:https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/alpha-omega-beach-cleaning[Project repository from the FreeBSD Foundation] URL: link:https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/alpha-omega-beach-cleaning[] + +Contact: Pierre Pronchery + +Alpha-Omega's mission is to catalyze sustainable security improvements to critical open source projects and ecosystems. +After a successful project with the FreeBSD Foundation in 2024 -- auditing the bhyve hypervisor and the Capsicum sandboxing framework -- Alpha-Omega has selected FreeBSD again, for the Alpha Omega Beach Cleaning project this time. +This new grant consists in generally improving the security and maintenance of third-party software within the FreeBSD base system. +The FreeBSD Foundation received the grant and has managed and executed the project. +This project is officially completed as of March 30th, 2026. + +After the previous report from 2025Q4, two major objectives have been identified: + +* Import of pkgconf into the base system (see link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1994[draft PR #1994] on GitHub) +* Import of pkg into the base system (see the link:https://github.com/khorben/freebsd-src/tree/khorben/pkg-2.6.2[khorben/pkg-2.6.2 branch] on GitHub) + +Both objectives are nearing completion, and they were presented publicly at AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taiwan, during the link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202603[FreeBSD Developer Summit] as well as during the conference's link:https://2026.asiabsdcon.org/entry/talk/MSBLUR/[Work-in-Progress session]. + +Monthly reporting has been submitted to alpha-omega and is available as before on GitHub link:https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega/tree/main/alpha/engagements/2025/FreeBSD[for 2025] and link:https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega/tree/main/alpha/engagements/2026/FreeBSD[for 2026]. + +Sponsor: Alpha-Omega, The FreeBSD Foundation