FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (January – March 2012)

The FreeBSD project has released its quarterly project update. The latest report covers FreeBSD related projects between January and March 2012, and is the first of the four reports planned for 2012.

This quarter was highlighted by releasing the next major version of FreeBSD, 9.0, which was finally released in the beginning of January 2012. The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIX operating system.

Projects

• FreeBSD Services Control
• GNU-Free C++11 Stack
• Growing filesystems online
• The FreeNAS Project

User-land Programs

• Clang Replacing GCC in the Base System
• Replacing the Regular Expression Code
• The bsdconfig(8) utility

FreeBSD Team Reports

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

Kernel

• DTrace Probes for the linuxulator
• HDMI/DisplayPort Audio Support in HDA Sound Driver (snd_hda)
• Improved hwpmc(9) Support for MIPS
• isci(4) SAS Driver

Network Infrastructure

• Atheros 802.11n Support
• IPv6 Performance Analysis
• Multi-FIB: IPv6 Support and Other Enhancements

Documentation

• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project

Architectures

• FreeBSD/arm on Various TI Boards
• FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale QorIQ DPAA
• NAND File System, NAND Flash Framework, NAND Simulator
• Porting DTrace to MIPS and ARM

Ports

• A New linux_base Port Based Upon CentOS
• BSD-licensed sort Utility (GNU sort Replacement)
• KDE/FreeBSD
• Perl Ports Testing
• The FreeBSD Haskell Ports
• The FreeBSD Ports Collection

Soure and full report: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (January – March 2012)