FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Jul – Sep 2010)

Another quarter, another FreeBSD status report: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Jul – Sep 2010).

With 55 entries, this is the longest report so far, and it’s a good indication of how FreeBSD is thriving and how the community is involved in its development.

Table of contents:

Google Summer of Code

• Atheros AR913x SoC Support
• Binary Package Patch Infrastructure — pkg_patch
• ExtFS Status Report
• Packet Capturing Stack — ringmap
• Registration of Optional Kernel Subsystems via sysctl

Projects

• BSD# Project
• BSNMP Enhancements
• Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX
• Clang Replacing GCC in the Base System
• DAHDI/FreeBSD Project
• External Toolchain Support
• GELI Additions
• gptboot Improvements
• HAST (Highly Available Storage) Improvements
• Kernel-level Stacked Cryptographic File System — PEFS
• pc-sysinstall
• Target Big Endian Must Die
• Userland DTrace
• V4L Support in Linux Emulator
• ZFSv28 is Ready for Wider Testing

FreeBSD Team Reports

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

Network Infrastructure

• Enhancing the FreeBSD TCP Implementation
• Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD
• Syncing pf(4) with OpenBSD 4.5

Kernel

• Kernel Event Timers Infrastructure
• Netdump Support
• Resource Containers
• USB Stack

Documentation

• mandoc/mdocml — groff Replacement for Rendering Manual Pages in FreeBSD
• The FreeBSD German Documentation Project
• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project
• Web Feeds for UPDATING Files

Userland Programs

• FreeBSD Services Control (fsc)
• Updating Base Tools to Accommodate Ports Requirements
• xz Compression for Packages and Log Files

Architectures

• Bringing up ARM to FreeBSD Tree
• FreeBSD on the Playstation 3
• FreeBSD/mips on Octeon
• FreeBSD/mips Ralink RT3052F/Broadcom BCM5354
• FreeBSD/sparc64

Ports

• Chromium Web Browser
• OpenAFS Port
• pkg_upgrade (sysutils/bsdadminscripts)
• Ports Collection
• Ports Distfile and WWW Checker
• Valgrind Port

Miscellaneous

• BSD-Day@2010
• EuroBSDCon 2010
• EuroBSDCon 2011
• FreeBSD Developer Summit, Karlsruhe
• FreeBSD Developer Summit, meetBSD California 2010
• PC-BSD

Read the report in its entirety: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Jul – Sep 2010)