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
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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The FreeBSD Project has released it’s ‘quarterly’ update with an overview of current and finished projects:
This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and September 2009. During that time a lot of work has been done on wide variety of projects, including the Google Summer of Code projects. The BSDCan conference was held in Ottawa, CA, in May. The EuroBSDCon conference was held in Cambridge, UK, in September. Both events were very successful. A new major version of FreeBSD, 8.0 is to be released soon
Table of contents:
Google Summer of Code
Projects
FreeBSD Team Reports
Network Infrastructure
Kernel
Documentation
Architectures
Ports
Miscellaneous
The FreeBSD 2009 Quarterly Status Report is now available (Jan – Mar):
Since the last Status Reports there has been interesting progress in FreeBSD Development. FreeBSD 7.2 was released just a few days ago. Some of the highlights include: Support for superpages in the FreeBSD Virtual Memory subsystem. The FreeBSD Kernel Virtual Address space has been increased to 6GB on amd64. An updated jail(8) subsystem that supports multi-IPv4/IPv6/noIP and much more.
Table of contents:
Projects
FreeBSD Team Reports
Architectures
Documentation
Google Summer of Code
Whole report below: Continue reading ‘FreeBSD Status Report: January – March 2009′
The FreeBSD 2008 Quarterly Status Report is now available (Oct – Nov):
This quarter included some very exciting work including the release of FreeBSD 6.4 and the much anticipated release of FreeBSD 7.1. We also launched our own official FreeBSD Forums. The first Bugathon of the year will be held this weekend, see below for more information and how to participate.
Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you enjoy reading.
Projects
FreeBSD Team Reports
Kernel
Architectures
Documentation
Miscellaneous
Previous Status Reports can be found here.
Source: www.freebsd.org (29/01/2009)
The July – September, 2008 Status Reports are now available
In this Quarter work has been progressing in quite a few areas of FreeBSD. FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 and 6.4-RC2 have been released for pre-release testing. EuroBSDCon 2008 took place in Strasbourg, France and quite a few developers got together for the Developer Summit before the Conference. The USB2 stack has been imported into the -HEAD branch.
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This 2008 Q2 FreeBSD Status Report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and June 2008. During this period The FreeBSD Foundation has released their July Newsletter.
Table of contents:
Google Summer of Code
- Layer2 filtering
- Porting BSD-licensed text-processing tools from OpenBSD
Projects
- Build cluster
- finstall
- FreeBSD Bugbusting Team
- Graphics support for the boot loader
- USB
FreeBSD Architecture
The Ports Collection
- Ports Collection
- Qt/KDE4 Status Report
Documentation
- FreeBSD FAQ Renovation
- The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project
- The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project
- The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project
Whole report here
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