FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Oct – Dec 2009)

The FreeBSD’s quarterly status report for 2009 Q4 is now available:

This report covers FreeBSD related projects between October and December 2009. This is the last of the four reports covering 2009, which has shown to be a very important year for the FreeBSD Project. Besides other notable things, a new major version of FreeBSD, 8.0-RELEASE, has been released, while the release process for 7.3-RELEASE is soon to begin.

Table of Contents

Google Summer of Code

• BSD-licensed iconv

Projects

• 3G USB support
• Clang replacing GCC in the base system
• FreeBSD TDM Framework
• HAST — Highly Available Storage
• Intel XScale hwpmc(9) support
• POSIX utmpx for FreeBSD
• SUJ — Journaled SoftUpdates
• The webcamd deamon

FreeBSD Team Reports

• FreeBSD Bugbusting Team
• FreeBSD Release Engineering
• The FreeBSD Foundation Status Report

Network Infrastructure

• bwn(4) — Broadcom Wireless driver
• IP Payload Compression Protocol support
• Ralink wireless RT2700U/2800U/3000U run(4) USB driver
• Syncing pf(4) with OpenBSD 4.5
• Wireless mesh networking

Kernel

• CAM-based ATA implementation
• Group Limit Increase
• NFSv4 ACL support
• V4L support in Linux emulator

Documentation

• The FreeBSD German Documentation Project
• The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project
• The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project

Architectures

• Flattened Device Tree for embedded FreeBSD
• FreeBSD/ia64
• FreeBSD/mips
• FreeBSD/sparc64

Ports

• Chromium web browser
• Ports Collection
• VirtualBox on FreeBSD

Vendor / 3rd Party Software

• DAHDI (Zaptel) support for FreeBSD
• NVIDIA amd64 driver

Miscellaneous

• AsiaBSDCon 2010 — The BSD Conference
• BSDCan 2010 — The BSD Conference
• meetBSD 2010 — The BSD Conference
• The FreeBSD Forums

Userland utilities

• BSD-licensed text processing tools

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