FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Oct – Dec 2010)

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

Once again, there are some interesting updates which show FreeBSD 9 is shaping up nicely with many features to look forward to. Some of the highlights: ZFS v28, Chromium Port, DIFFUSE, FreeBSD on Amazon EC2, Trim for USF.

Table of Contents:

Projects

• BSDInstall
• Non-executable Stacks
• Webcamd
• xz Compression for Packages and Log Files
• ZFS pool version 28

FreeBSD Team Reports

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

Network Infrastructure

• DIstributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence (DIFFUSE)
• Ethernet Switch Framework
• Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD
• FreeBSD 802.11n
• FreeBSD VirtIO Network Driver
• Generic IEEE 802.3 annex 31B full duplex flow control support for Ethernet in mii(4)
• IPv6 and VIMAGE
• TCP SMP scalability project

Kernel

• Resource Containers
• SYSCTL Type Safety
• TRIM support for UFS

Documentation

• mdocml Replacing groff For manpage Rendering
• The FreeBSD German Documentation Project Status Report
• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project

Userland Programs

• FreeBSD Services Control (fsc)
• GEOM-based ataraid(4) Replacement — geom_raid
• gpart Improvements

Architectures

• Bringing up OMAP3
• FreeBSD on the Playstation 3
• FreeBSD/EC2
• FreeBSD/sparc64

Ports

• Chromium
• FreeBSD as Home Theater PC
• Port-Sandbox
• Portmaster
• Ports Additions
• Ports Collection
• Robot Operating System

Miscellaneous

• FOSDEM 2011

Source: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Oct – Dec 2010)