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.

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A belated FreeBSD April-June 2012 Status Report has been published. Another one should be available within the next few weeks covering the remainder of 2012.

This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between April and June 2012. This quarter was highlighted by having a new Core Team elected, which took office on July 11th to start its work with a relatively high number of new members. Note that this is the second of the three reports planned for 2012.

http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2012-04-2012-06.html

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)

The FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for FreeBSD project work taken place between October – December 2011 is now available. There are 32 items in this update:

Projects

• Auditdistd Project
• BSD-Licensed C++ Stack
• pfSense

User-land Programs

• Replacing the Regular Expression Code
• System Configuration Utilities

FreeBSD Team Reports

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

Kernel

• CAM Target Layer (CTL)
• FreeBSD No-IPv4 (“IPv6-Only”) Support
• GEOM MULTIPATH Rewrite
• HDA Sound Driver (snd_hda) Improvements
• LSI Supported mps(4) SAS driver
• SCSI Direct Access Driver (da) Improvements
• Status Report for NFS
• The New CARP

Documentation

• A Tool to Check for Mistakes in Documentation — igor
• The FreeBSD German Documentation Project
• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project

Architectures

• FreeBSD/390
• FreeBSD/arm on Marvell Armada XP
• FreeBSD/powerpc on AppliedMicro APM86290
• FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale QorIQ DPAA
• Improving Support for New Features in the Intel SandyBridge CPUs

Ports

• FreeBSD Haskell Ports
• FreeBSD Ruby Ports
• FreeBSD/GNOME
• FreeBSD/KDE
• Multimedia — Watching/Recording Digital TV
• Perl Ports Testing
• Public FreeBSD Ports Development Infrastructure — redports.org
• Up to Date X.Org Server

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

This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next major version of FreeBSD, 9.0, which is to be released by then end of this year.

From the table of contents:

Projects

• GELI status update
• HAST (Highly Available Storage) status update
• pfSense
• Tool for providing FreeBSD VM Images
• ZFSguru
• ZRouter.org project — a FreeBSD-based firmware for embedded devices

FreeBSD Team Reports

• Ports Collection
• The FreeBSD Foundation
• The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team

Network Infrastructure

• 802.11n / atheros
• DIstributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence (DIFFUSE)
• Ethernet Switch Framework

Kernel

• The new CARP
• VM layer for allocations larger than a page

Documentation

• Doc sprint on IRC, September 5, 2011
• The FreeBSD German Documentation Project Status Report
• The FreeBSD Greek Documentation Project
• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project

Architectures

• FreeBSD/arm on Marvell Armada XP
• FreeBSD/powerpc on AppliedMicro APM86290

Ports

• FreeBSD Haskell Ports
• KDE-FreeBSD
• OpenAFS port
• Portmaster

Miscellaneous

• bsd_day(2011)
• EuroBSDcon 2011
• FreeBSD Developer Summit, Maarssen

Google Summer of Code

• Multibyte Encoding Support in Nvi

Read: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (July – September 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

Full version:

Another quarter, another FreeBSD status report: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Oct – Dec 2010).

Once again, there are some interesting updates which show FreeBSD 9 is shaping up nicely with many features to look forward to. Some of the highlights: ZFS v28, Chromium Port, DIFFUSE, FreeBSD on Amazon EC2, Trim for USF.

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Another quarter, another FreeBSD status report: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Jul – Sep 2010).

With 55 entries, this is the longest report so far, and it’s a good indication of how FreeBSD is thriving and how the community is involved in its development.

Table of contents:

Google Summer of Code

• Atheros AR913x SoC Support
• Binary Package Patch Infrastructure — pkg_patch
• ExtFS Status Report
• Packet Capturing Stack — ringmap
• Registration of Optional Kernel Subsystems via sysctl

Projects

• BSD# Project
• BSNMP Enhancements
• Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX
• Clang Replacing GCC in the Base System
• DAHDI/FreeBSD Project
• External Toolchain Support
• GELI Additions
• gptboot Improvements
• HAST (Highly Available Storage) Improvements
• Kernel-level Stacked Cryptographic File System — PEFS
• pc-sysinstall
• Target Big Endian Must Die
• Userland DTrace
• V4L Support in Linux Emulator
• ZFSv28 is Ready for Wider Testing

FreeBSD Team Reports

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

Network Infrastructure

• Enhancing the FreeBSD TCP Implementation
• Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD
• Syncing pf(4) with OpenBSD 4.5

Kernel

• Kernel Event Timers Infrastructure
• Netdump Support
• Resource Containers
• USB Stack

Documentation

• mandoc/mdocml — groff Replacement for Rendering Manual Pages in FreeBSD
• The FreeBSD German Documentation Project
• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project
• Web Feeds for UPDATING Files

Userland Programs

• FreeBSD Services Control (fsc)
• Updating Base Tools to Accommodate Ports Requirements
• xz Compression for Packages and Log Files

Architectures

• Bringing up ARM to FreeBSD Tree
• FreeBSD on the Playstation 3
• FreeBSD/mips on Octeon
• FreeBSD/mips Ralink RT3052F/Broadcom BCM5354
• FreeBSD/sparc64

Ports

• Chromium Web Browser
• OpenAFS Port
• pkg_upgrade (sysutils/bsdadminscripts)
• Ports Collection
• Ports Distfile and WWW Checker
• Valgrind Port

Miscellaneous

• BSD-Day@2010
• EuroBSDCon 2010
• EuroBSDCon 2011
• FreeBSD Developer Summit, Karlsruhe
• FreeBSD Developer Summit, meetBSD California 2010
• PC-BSD

Read the report in its entirety: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Jul – Sep 2010)