The developers of FreeBSD have just released their status report updates for the first quarter of 2014. There have been many notable changes within the last 4 months. The following list from the status report outlines some of their major achievements:
- Ports team released their landmark first quarterly “stable” branch
- FreeBSD continues to grow on the ARM architecture, now running on an ARM-based Chromebook
- SMP is now possible on multi-core ARM systems
- bhyve, the native FreeBSD hypervisor, continues to improve
- An integral test suite is taking shape, and the Jenkins Continuous Integration system has been implemented
- FreeBSD patches to GCC are being “forward-ported”, and LLDB, the Clang/LLVM debugger is being ported
- Desktop use has also seen improvements, with work on Gnome, KDE, Xfce, KMS video drivers, X.org, and vt, the new console driver which supports KMS and Unicode
- Linux and Wine binary compatibility layers have been improved
- UEFI booting support has been merged to head
- The FreeBSD Foundation continues to assist in moving FreeBSD forward, sponsoring conferences and meetings and numerous development projects
To see a detailed report from each team and developer, head on over to this link: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.html
