FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr – Jun 2011)

This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between April and June 2011. It is the second of the four reports planned for 2011: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Apr – Jun 2011)

Since this quarter, the work is being focused on the next major version of FreeBSD, 9.0, which is to be released in September.

I’m happy to see the progress that’s been made with Chromium and Clang.

Keep up the good work, devs!

From the Table of Contents:

Projects

• Clang replacing GCC in the base system
• Fix clang warnings
• libarchive, bsdtar, bsdcpio
• ZFS pool version 28

FreeBSD Team Reports

• ArabBSD
• The FreeBSD Foundation

Network Infrastructure

• DIstributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence (DIFFUSE)
• FreeBSD IPv6-only Support
• IPv6 RA Handling Improvements
• netmap
• New ipfw features
• TCP User Timeout Option (UTO)

Kernel

• Intel GPU Driver
• OpenAFS port
• Overhaul of the mii(4)-subsystem
• Status Report for NFS

Documentation

• FreeBSD June 6th, 2011 Doc Sprint
• The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project
• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project

Architectures

• FreeBSD on the Sony Playstation 3
• FreeBSD/arm on Marvell Armada XP
• FreeBSD/powerpc on AppliedMicro APM86290
• FreeBSD/powerpc64 on IBM pSeries machines
• FreeBSD/sparc64

Ports

• Chromium
• FreeBSD Haskell Ports
• KDE-FreeBSD
• libvirt networking port
• Portbuilder
• Ports Collection

Miscellaneous

• bsd_day(2011)

Google Summer of Code

• Capsicum adaptation and core libraries
• Disk device error counters
• Google Summer of Code
• nvi-iconv
• Replacing the Regular Expression Code

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