FreeBSD Status Report – 2013-Q1

The FreeBSD Project has released its first status report for 2013 (January to March 2013). It comes with 31 entries and gives a nice insight on what developers have been working on.

From the table of contents:

Projects

• FreeNAS
• Kernel Information in Process Core Dumps
• Native iSCSI Stack

FreeBSD Team Reports

• FreeBSD Bugmeister Team
• FreeBSD Core Team
• FreeBSD Port Managers
• FreeBSD Postmaster Team
• FreeBSD Release Engineering Team

Kernel

• AMD GPU Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) Support
• Atomic “close-on-exec”
• callout(9) Improvements
• Multipath TCP (MPTCP) for FreeBSD
• racct: Block IO Accounting
• Read-only Port of NetBSD’s UDF File System
• TCP-AO Authentication Option
• UFS/FFS Performance Work

Documentation

• Improving the Documentation Project Infrastructre
• The entities Documentation Branch
• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project

Architectures

• FreeBSD on Cubieboard
• FreeBSD/arm Superpages for ARMv7
• FreeBSD/ARM Toolchain Improvements

Ports

• FreeBSD Haskell Ports
• GNOME/FreeBSD
• KDE/FreeBSD
• PyPy
• Wine32 on FreeBSD/amd64
• Xfce/FreeBSD
• xorg on FreeBSD

Miscellaneous

• BXR.SU — Super User’s BSD Cross Reference
• mdoc.su — Short Manual Page URLs