The Mozilla License Team + has granted permission + to the FreeBSD Gnome Team + for use of the Firefox and Thunderbird names, + official icons, and permission to do + officially branded builds.
+New committer: Sam Hopkins (src)
+The FreeBSD Foundation has published its Quarterly + Newsletter, which includes a call for donations so + the Foundation can keep its non-profit public charity + 501(c)3 status.
+The first Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been + made available. Please see the full announcement on + the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. + The full 4.11 release schedule is + here.
+New committer: Niels Heinen + (ports)
+The FreeSBIE 1.1 FreeBSD + Live CD is released -- see the release + announcement for details.
+New committer: Palle Girgensohn + (ports)
+The schedule for the FreeBSD 4.11 Release has been + announced, with a target release date of January 24th, + 2005. The full schedule is + here.
+New committer: Jean-Sébastien Pédron + (src)
+The 'FreeBSD' trademark, which was originally granted + to Walnut Creek CDROM (now FreeBSD Mall, + Inc.) in 1996, has been transferred to the FreeBSD + Foundation.
+New committer: Vicente Carrasco + (doc)
+New committer: Johann Kois + (doc)
+GNOME 2.8.1 was merged into the ports tree + following the release of FreeBSD 5.3. See + the FreeBSD GNOME + Homepage for more details as well + as upgrade instructions.
+FreeBSD + 5.3-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata + before installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 5.3. The Release Information + page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
+ +The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to + announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC2. Two + critical issues came up during RC1 testing and it is + felt the fixes warrant one more RC so they receive + widespread testing. If no more show-stopper problems + are found this will be the last test release done before + 5.3-RELEASE. Please see the full announcement on + FreeBSD-CURRENT here.
+New committer: Michael Johnson (ports)
+New committer: Remko Lodder (doc)
+New committer: George V. Neville-Neil + (src)
+New committer: Stephan Uphoff + (src)
+New committer: Koop Mast + (ports)
+New committer: Xin Li + (src, doc)
+New committer: Alexey Dokuchaev + (ports)
+New committer: Dejan Lesjak + (ports)
+New committer: Cheng-Lung Sung + (ports)
+New committer: Dmitry Morozovsky + (doc)
+New committer: Herve Quiroz + (ports)
+New committer: Pyun YongHyeon + (src)
+New committer: Bjoern A. Zeeb + (src)
+The May-June status report is now available; see the status reports Web + page for more information.
New committer: Suleiman Souhlal + (PowerPC)
+FreeBSD-CURRENT now ships with X.Org's X Window System per default, + though XFree86 is still supported. For more information on how to + upgrade for -CURRENT and -STABLE, take + a look at this + + HEADS UP.
+New committer: Gleb Smirnoff + (src)
+New committer: Sergey Matveychuk + (ports)
+New committer: Lars Thegler + (ports)
+FreeBSD + 4.10-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata + before installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 4.10. The Release Information + page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
+New committer: Koichi Suzuki + (doc)
+The March-April status report is now available; see the + status reports Web page + for more information.
+New committer: Christian S.J. Peron + (src)
+New committer: Stefan Farfeleder + (src)
+New committer: Jeremy Messenger + (ports)
+New committer: Tony Ackerman + (src)
+New committer: Marius Strobl + (src)
+New committer: Daniel Hartmeier + (src)
+New committer: Niklas J. Saers + (doc)
+Because of the hard maintenance and low benefit the + gallery + pages bring to the Project and the listed websites, + it has been decided to spend the time working on other + stuff related to FreeBSD than these pages. The gallery + will be removed in two weeks, no further submissions will + be processed. However, this has no influence on the + Commercial Gallery.
+New committer: Mark Santcroos + (src)
+The January-February status report is now available; see the + status reports Web page + for more information.
+New committer: Thierry Thomas + (ports)
+New committer: Volker Stolz + (ports)
+New committer: Peter Edwards + (src)
+New committer: Vinod Kashyap + (src)
+FreeBSD + 5.2.1-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata + before installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 5.2.1. The Release Information + page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
+ +New committer: Markus Brüffer + (Ports)
+New committer: Jim Rees + (src)
+Core member resigned: Greg Lehey
+New committer: Max Laier + (src)
+New committer: Lukas Ertl + (src)
+New committer: Pawel Jakub Dawidek + (src)
+The October-December status report is now available; see the + status reports Web page + for more information.
+New committer: Philip Paeps + (src)
+New committer: Colin Percival + (src)
+New committer: Josef El-Rayes + (docs)
+FreeBSD + 5.2-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata + before installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 5.2. The Release Information + page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
+ +New committer: Vincent Tougait + (Documentation Project)
+A study by a London-based computer security firm reveals + that the open-source BSD operating systems and Apple's Mac + OS X are the most secure popular operating systems on the + Internet today.
+How to build diskless clients with FreeBSD Netboot server.
+How to configure a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server to support + diskless clients.
+A story about the FreeBSD 5.3 release cycle
+Part five of this series of introductory articles describes + how to use FreeBSD for email purposes.
+An article that compares and contrasts the four main BSD + variants.
+Part four of this series of introductory articles covers the + installation and the configuration of Apsfilter on FreeBSD.
+Robert Watson and Poul-Henning Kamp write an article for + the ACM Queue magazine on FreeBSD's jail facility + and on the general concept of sharing and security from an + operating system architecture/design point of view.
+This article is about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release.
+Genesis Software builds FreeBSD-based radar systems.
+An article mentioning FreeBSD's growth in the hosting market.
+This article explains printing with Unix, using FreeBSD as + an example.
+How to build a web services cluster using the FreeBSD based + FreeSBIE live CD image.
+This article shows how to defend against denial of service attacks with + FreeBSD.
+A story about Poul-Henning Kamp's recent appeal for funds.
+This article tries to outline the reasons for FreeBSD's + growth over the last years.
+Part three of this series of introductory articles covers the + installation of third party applications on FreeBSD.
+FreeBSD continues to grow in the web hosting market.
+The IEEE and the Open Group allow the FreeBSD project to + incorporate material from a few of their published + standards.
+The description of a FreeBSD-powered motorcycle.
+Dru Lavigne explains how to connect a FreeBSD machine to + an existing network.
+An overview about the research projects in Intel's laboratories. + Some of the research is done using the FreeBSD operating system.
+Jordan Hubbard talks about FreeBSD in an article on using + open-source software in commercial products.
+A review of FreeBSD 5.2.1, including a short overview of the history + of the BSDs and installation instructions.
+This article describes setting up Exim with the Exiscan-ACL + patch on FreeBSD.
+Five of the ten most reliable hosting providers in March + were running FreeBSD. Read on for more information.
+An article reviewing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64 machines. + The author finds FreeBSD/SPARC64 to be a very complete, + useful and flexible server.
+A comparison between FreeBSD 5.2.1's performance on + an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and on a Pentium4 3.2E.
+An article about free wireless networks in San Francisco, + mentioning FreeBSD as one of the operating systems of choice.
+A guide on setting up and running the backup program Bacula on FreeBSD
+A review of FreeBSD 5.1 as a desktop system.
+This is the second part of a series of introductory articles. + The author explains how to set up X and the postfix mail system.
+This IEEE journal article looks at how the availability of + high-quality open-source software is affecting the way + software is developed. FreeBSD is one of the open-source + projects examined.
+The FreeBSD Foundation has published its December + Newsletter, which summarizes the activities the Foundation has + undertaken this year.
+Returned committer: Jason Evans + (src)
+The release engineering team, represented by Scott Long, + has announced the release schedule for 2006. Please refer + to the + announcement for more information.
+Read-only support for the XFS file system has been committed + to FreeBSD-CURRENT. The code is derived from sources provided + by SGI and is covered by the GPL. Additional information + can be found in the + announcement.
+New committer: Andrey Slusar + (ports)
+The FreeBSD project has hundreds of active developers spread all + over the world, and many of them have their own parts of the + source-tree that they work on. However, there are always a lot of + new interesting projects and ideas that needs to be investigated + and evaluated, and this is where the FreeBSD project relies on + heroic efforts from volunteers. A new section on the FreeBSD + website has been created with the purpose of listing such + projects. The list is in no way complete, but it should serve as + a nice starting point for volunteers who would like to become + committers in the future. You can view the projects list here.
+The FreeBSD Foundation received a donation of a blade system + from Hewlett-Packard for use as a third-party software build + cluster. This 20-node HP BladeSystem cluster triples + the speed of the build process for i386 packages. You can see + more details from here.
+New committer: Tim Bishop + (ports)
+New committer: Oleg Bulyzhin + (src)
+A new article, + Building Products with FreeBSD describes the benefits of + collaborating with the FreeBSD project when developing + products. Much of the engineering cost of software product + development for a successful product comes from the need to + evolve to keep pace with the market. By working with a mature, + reuse-friendly source base like that of the FreeBSD + project, and by following the best-practices listed in this article, + organizations can reap the benefits of reduced engineering costs + and improved market adaptability.
+The July-October, 2005 status report is now + available with 37 entries.
+KDE 3.4.3 has been merged into the ports tree. For a + detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.4.2 release, + please refer to the KDE 3.4.2 + changelog. For more information, see the KDE 3.4.3 + info page. + For general information about KDE on FreeBSD, please see + the KDE on FreeBSD project + page.
+Now that 6.0 is out the door, GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged + into the ports tree. Be sure to checkout + our upgrade FAQ + for all the changes, upgrade instructions, and + known issues. Additional resources can be found + at the FreeBSD GNOME + homepage.
+FreeBSD + 6.0-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata + before installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 6.0. The Release Information + page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
+We are pleased to announce the winner of our logo + competition: Anton K. Gural. For competition details, + please see the result + page. With our new logo, we will be able to show our + own identity on the 'net, and this will make our marketing + efforts much easier. We will publish soon a guideline page + which gives usage rules and usable (vector format) logo data + under the same BSD license as the rest of FreeBSD.
+New committer: Aaron Dalton + (ports)
+New committer: Ariff Abdullah + (src)
+The first release candidate of FreeBSD 6.0 is now available. + The RC1 ISO images and FTP based install support are + available on most of the + + FreeBSD Mirror sites.
+ +A new case study, + argentina.com, + describes how a successful ISP in Latin America excels in + a competitive market with FreeBSD.
+A new website has been launched. We hope you find the + new design easier to navigate. The site was implemented + by Emily Boyd as part of + Google's + Summer of Code program. A copy of the old site for + comparison purposes is archived + here. Please + post your comments and suggestions about the new site to + the freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org list.
+New committer: Vitaly Bogdanov + (doc)
+New committer: Emanuel Haupt + (ports)
+New committer: Andrej Zverev + (ports)
+New committer: Tom McLaughlin + (ports)
+New committer: Marcus Alves Grando + (ports)
+New committer: Gary W. Swearingen + (doc)
+After 43 months Jacques Vidrine has passed the + Security Officer hat to Colin Percival, known for his + FreeBSD Update, portsnap, and bsdiff utilities, and + recently for his paper "Cache missing for fun and profit" + regarding sensitive information disclosure within + hyperthreaded processor systems. You can read more about + this + here. +
+Users with organisational software that understands + iCalendar format files can now subscribe to the + FreeBSD Events + Calendar.
+A new article, + Choosing the FreeBSD Version That Is Right For You, + discusses considerations that should go into the selection + of the most suitable version of FreeBSD for individual needs. + Included are such concepts as the differences between a + Release and a Branch, and between FreeBSD-STABLE and + FreeBSD-CURRENT. Also covered is how FreeBSD development + is moving towards a goal of more frequent major releases, + each of which introduces smaller feature sets, as compared + to how releases were done in the past. The target audience + is both the user who is considering installing FreeBSD, and + also existing users who wish to plan their future upgrades.
+Dru Lavigne has just published FreeBSD: + An Open Source Alternative to Linux. The objective of + this whitepaper is to explain some of the features and + benefits provided by FreeBSD, and where applicable, + compare those features to Linux. This paper provides a + starting point for those interested in exploring Open + Source alternatives to Linux.
+The March-June, 2005 status report is now + available with 43 entries.
+New committer: Vsevolod Stakhov + (ports)
+New committer: Bruno Ducrot + (src)
+The FreeBSD Project received over 350 applications for Google's + Summer of Code program, amongst which 18 were selected + for funding. Unfortunately, there were far more first rate + applications than available spots for students. However, + we encourage students to work together with us all year + round. The FreeBSD Project is always willing to help + mentor students learn more about operating system + development through our normal community mailing lists and + development forums. Contributing to an open source + software project is a valuable component of a computer + science education and great preparation for a career in + software development.
+ +More information about the funded student projects is + available from the FreeBSD + Summer of Code Wiki.
+ +Next milestone in 6.0-RELEASE process is reached. RELENG_6 + CVS branch is forked from HEAD. The upcoming 6.0-RELEASE, and + all following 6.x releases will be cut from this branch. + For more information see: + 6.0-RELEASE schedule, + RELENG_6 announcement.
+New committer: Renato Botelho + (ports)
+New committer: Jung-uk Kim + (src)
+The FreeBSD 6-CURRENT snapshot releases in July 2005 are + now available. This will likely be the last snapshot + of 6.0-CURRENT before the RELENG_6 branch is made. + The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released + snapshot releases of 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT to encourage + people to test new features and improve the reliability. + For more details, please visit + the snapshots page.
+New committer: Wayne Salamon + (src)
+New contributor: Matteo Riondato + (PR database)
+New committer: Kip Macy + (src)
+The FreeBSD + 6.0 code freeze has begun. Developers must have + approval from re@FreeBSD.org to commit to the HEAD branch of + src/. 6.0 snapshots are available from the FTP sites for + those able to help test the upcoming major new release of + FreeBSD. For more information, please see the release engineering area + of the web site.
+The FreeBSD Project is happy to participate in Google's + Summer + of Code 2005 program. This program will provide + funding for students to spend the summer contributing to + open source software projects. A list of FreeBSD specific + projects and potential mentors is available here.
+New committer: Brad Davis + (doc)
+New committer: Andrew Thompson + (src)
+New committer: Craig Rodrigues + (src)
+Another great BSD + conference in Ottawa has just concluded. There was a + highly successful 2 day FreeBSD Developer summit + preceding the official conference. Special thanks should + go to Dan Langille for organizing the conference and to + Scott Long for organizing the developer summit.
+ +FreeBSD + 5.4-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata + before installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 5.4. The Release Information + page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
+ +The FreeBSD 5.4-RC4 release is now available. + The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce + the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC4, the last Release + Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 unless a major problem is + discovered as part of RC4. The RC4 ISO images and FTP based + install support are available on most of the + + FreeBSD Mirror sites.
+The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to the upcoming + OpenBSD release 3.7. Several new features including nested + anchors and connection rate limiting are now available to + the FreeBSD userbase.
+The January-March, 2005 status report is now + available with 39 entries.
+The FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 release is now available. + The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce + the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, the third Release + Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. The RC3 ISO images + and FTP based install support are available on most of the + FreeBSD Mirror sites.
+New committer: Qing Li + (src)
+New committer: Jean-Yves Lefort + (ports)
+New committer: Sam Lawrance + (ports)
+The FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 release is now available. + The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce + the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC2, the second Release + Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. We encourage people + to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified + and worked out before the actual release. The RC2 ISO images + and FTP based install support are available on most of the + FreeBSD Mirror sites.
+New committer: Joel Dahl + (doc)
+The FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 release is now available. + The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce + the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC1, the first Release + Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. We encourage people + to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified + and worked out before the actual release. The RC1 ISO images + and FTP based install support are available on most of the + FreeBSD Mirror sites.
+Enhanced commit privileges: Alexander Leidinger (src, ports)
+The FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 release is now available. + This is the first BETA release for the FreeBSD 5.4 release + cycle and the Release Engineering Team encourages people + to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified + and worked out before the actual release. + The BETA1 ISO images and FTP based install support + are available on most of the + FreeBSD Mirror sites.
+The FreeBSD 6-CURRENT snapshot releases in March 2005 are + now available. Note that 5-STABLE snapshots are not available + in this month because 5.4-PRERELEASE builds will be available soon. + The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released + snapshot releases of 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT on a monthly basis + to encourage people to test new features + and improve the reliability. For more details, please visit + the snapshots page.
+GNOME 2.10.0 has been released and merged into the ports + tree in time for 5.4-RELEASE. Be sure to checkout + our upgrade FAQ + for all the changes, upgrade instructions, and + known issues. Additional resources can be found + at the FreeBSD GNOME + homepage.
+New committer: Roman Bogorodskiy (ports)
+New committer: Damien Bergamini (src)
+New committer: Jesus R. Camou (doc)
+New committer: Florent Thoumie (ports)
+New committer: Simon Barner (ports)
+Logo design competition is open
+New committer: Tai-hwa Liang (src)
+FreeBSD + 4.11-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata + before installation for any late-breaking news and/or + issues with 4.11. The Release Information + page has more information about FreeBSD releases.
+The July-December, 2004 status report is now + available with 44 entries.
+The third Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been + made available. Please see the full announcement on + the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. + The full 4.11 release schedule is here.
+The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been + made available. Please see the full announcement on + the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here. + The full 4.11 release schedule is here.
+According to this review, "FreeBSD is an enterprise-grade + operating system that leaves little to be desired."
+Covers a few FreeBSD-derived operating systems.
+The author shows how to set up a RAID 1 using the gmirror + facility available in FreeBSD 5 and 6.
+Press about new releases from the *BSD projects.
+A reviewer recommends FreeBSD 6.0 for the desktop.
+A comparison of the operational security of Windows(r), + Linux and FreeBSD.
+A technical article comparing scheduling, memory + management, and file system architecture in these three + open-source kernels.
+BSDForums interviews FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long + about various aspects of FreeBSD, including FreeBSD 6.0, + Apple G4 PowerMac support, AMD64 and wireless + compatibility.
+The Sun Cobalt RaQ550 web hosting platform has been ported + to FreeBSD.
+An article about work being done to port Sun's DTrace to + FreeBSD.
+An interview with FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long about + the upcoming 6.0 release.
+Colin Percival, FreeBSD developer and independent security + researcher, describes his recent work on covert channels in + hyperthreaded processors.
+A brief introduction to the BSD family of OSes.
+On using Windows(R) network drivers in FreeBSD.
+Code analysis software firm Coverity analyses FreeBSD's source base and + finds a very low number of software flaws.
+OSnews interviews FreeBSD developers Scott Long, Robert + Watson and John Baldwin about the upcoming FreeBSD 6 + release.
+"Freedom and choice are pretty cool. But we should talk + about many other things. GPL is based on the belief that + open source software is weak and needs to be protected. With + it, we continue injuring ourselves, cutting ourselves from + the economic benefits of BSD license".
+BitDefender announces their move into enterprise space + with a FreeBSD version of their products.
+LSI Logic MegaRAID(R) SCSI and SATA adapters now support + the latest FreeBSD 5.4 release.
+An article on using FreeBSD 5.4 on a laptop.
+Offmyserver, a rackmount server provider, recently migrated + 50 servers to FreeBSD, on account of its reliability and ability + to handle large amounts of disk.
+An excerpt from the book "The Design and Implementation of the + FreeBSD Operating System".
+Dru Lavigne describes the steps taken for maintaining up to date + a FreeBSD system this year.
+OnLamp.com's writer interviews FreeBSD's Core Team member + Scott Long about FreeBSD's implementation on SMPng.
+Old announcements:
+ 2005,
+ 2004,
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The FreeBSD Foundation has published its December
- Newsletter, which summarizes the activities the Foundation has
- undertaken this year. Returned committer: Jason Evans
- (src) The release engineering team, represented by Scott Long,
- has announced the release schedule for 2006. Please refer
- to the
- announcement for more information. Read-only support for the XFS file system has been committed
- to FreeBSD-CURRENT. The code is derived from sources provided
- by SGI and is covered by the GPL. Additional information
- can be found in the
- announcement. New committer: Andrey Slusar
- (ports) The FreeBSD project has hundreds of active developers spread all
- over the world, and many of them have their own parts of the
- source-tree that they work on. However, there are always a lot of
- new interesting projects and ideas that needs to be investigated
- and evaluated, and this is where the FreeBSD project relies on
- heroic efforts from volunteers. A new section on the FreeBSD
- website has been created with the purpose of listing such
- projects. The list is in no way complete, but it should serve as
- a nice starting point for volunteers who would like to become
- committers in the future. You can view the projects list here. The FreeBSD Foundation received a donation of a blade system
- from Hewlett-Packard for use as a third-party software build
- cluster. This 20-node HP BladeSystem cluster triples
- the speed of the build process for i386 packages. You can see
- more details from here. New committer: Tim Bishop
- (ports) New committer: Oleg Bulyzhin
- (src) A new article,
- Building Products with FreeBSD describes the benefits of
- collaborating with the FreeBSD project when developing
- products. Much of the engineering cost of software product
- development for a successful product comes from the need to
- evolve to keep pace with the market. By working with a mature,
- reuse-friendly source base like that of the FreeBSD
- project, and by following the best-practices listed in this article,
- organizations can reap the benefits of reduced engineering costs
- and improved market adaptability. The July-October, 2005 status report is now
- available with 37 entries. KDE 3.4.3 has been merged into the ports tree. For a
- detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.4.2 release,
- please refer to the KDE 3.4.2
- changelog. For more information, see the KDE 3.4.3
- info page.
- For general information about KDE on FreeBSD, please see
- the KDE on FreeBSD project
- page. Now that 6.0 is out the door, GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged
- into the ports tree. Be sure to checkout
- our upgrade FAQ
- for all the changes, upgrade instructions, and
- known issues. Additional resources can be found
- at the FreeBSD GNOME
- homepage. FreeBSD
- 6.0-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata
- before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
- issues with 6.0. The Release Information
- page has more information about FreeBSD releases. We are pleased to announce the winner of our logo
- competition: Anton K. Gural. For competition details,
- please see the result
- page. With our new logo, we will be able to show our
- own identity on the 'net, and this will make our marketing
- efforts much easier. We will publish soon a guideline page
- which gives usage rules and usable (vector format) logo data
- under the same BSD license as the rest of FreeBSD. New committer: Aaron Dalton
- (ports) New committer: Ariff Abdullah
- (src) The first release candidate of FreeBSD 6.0 is now available.
- The RC1 ISO images and FTP based install support are
- available on most of the
-
- FreeBSD Mirror sites. A new case study,
- argentina.com,
- describes how a successful ISP in Latin America excels in
- a competitive market with FreeBSD. A new website has been launched. We hope you find the
- new design easier to navigate. The site was implemented
- by Emily Boyd as part of
- Google's
- Summer of Code program. A copy of the old site for
- comparison purposes is archived
- here. Please
- post your comments and suggestions about the new site to
- the freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org list. New committer: Vitaly Bogdanov
- (doc) New committer: Emanuel Haupt
- (ports) New committer: Andrej Zverev
- (ports) New committer: Tom McLaughlin
- (ports) New committer: Marcus Alves Grando
- (ports) New committer: Gary W. Swearingen
- (doc) After 43 months Jacques Vidrine has passed the
- Security Officer hat to Colin Percival, known for his
- FreeBSD Update, portsnap, and bsdiff utilities, and
- recently for his paper "Cache missing for fun and profit"
- regarding sensitive information disclosure within
- hyperthreaded processor systems. You can read more about
- this
- here.
- Users with organisational software that understands
- iCalendar format files can now subscribe to the
- FreeBSD Events
- Calendar. A new article,
- Choosing the FreeBSD Version That Is Right For You,
- discusses considerations that should go into the selection
- of the most suitable version of FreeBSD for individual needs.
- Included are such concepts as the differences between a
- Release and a Branch, and between FreeBSD-STABLE and
- FreeBSD-CURRENT. Also covered is how FreeBSD development
- is moving towards a goal of more frequent major releases,
- each of which introduces smaller feature sets, as compared
- to how releases were done in the past. The target audience
- is both the user who is considering installing FreeBSD, and
- also existing users who wish to plan their future upgrades. Dru Lavigne has just published FreeBSD:
- An Open Source Alternative to Linux. The objective of
- this whitepaper is to explain some of the features and
- benefits provided by FreeBSD, and where applicable,
- compare those features to Linux. This paper provides a
- starting point for those interested in exploring Open
- Source alternatives to Linux. The March-June, 2005 status report is now
- available with 43 entries. New committer: Vsevolod Stakhov
- (ports) New committer: Bruno Ducrot
- (src) The FreeBSD Project received over 350 applications for Google's
- Summer of Code program, amongst which 18 were selected
- for funding. Unfortunately, there were far more first rate
- applications than available spots for students. However,
- we encourage students to work together with us all year
- round. The FreeBSD Project is always willing to help
- mentor students learn more about operating system
- development through our normal community mailing lists and
- development forums. Contributing to an open source
- software project is a valuable component of a computer
- science education and great preparation for a career in
- software development. More information about the funded student projects is
- available from the FreeBSD
- Summer of Code Wiki. Next milestone in 6.0-RELEASE process is reached. RELENG_6
- CVS branch is forked from HEAD. The upcoming 6.0-RELEASE, and
- all following 6.x releases will be cut from this branch.
- For more information see:
- 6.0-RELEASE schedule,
- RELENG_6 announcement. New committer: Renato Botelho
- (ports) New committer: Jung-uk Kim
- (src) The FreeBSD 6-CURRENT snapshot releases in July 2005 are
- now available. This will likely be the last snapshot
- of 6.0-CURRENT before the RELENG_6 branch is made.
- The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released
- snapshot releases of 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT to encourage
- people to test new features and improve the reliability.
- For more details, please visit
- the snapshots page. New committer: Wayne Salamon
- (src) New contributor: Matteo Riondato
- (PR database) New committer: Kip Macy
- (src) The FreeBSD
- 6.0 code freeze has begun. Developers must have
- approval from re@FreeBSD.org to commit to the HEAD branch of
- src/. 6.0 snapshots are available from the FTP sites for
- those able to help test the upcoming major new release of
- FreeBSD. For more information, please see the release engineering area
- of the web site. The FreeBSD Project is happy to participate in Google's
- Summer
- of Code 2005 program. This program will provide
- funding for students to spend the summer contributing to
- open source software projects. A list of FreeBSD specific
- projects and potential mentors is available here. New committer: Brad Davis
- (doc) New committer: Andrew Thompson
- (src) New committer: Craig Rodrigues
- (src) Another great BSD
- conference in Ottawa has just concluded. There was a
- highly successful 2 day FreeBSD Developer summit
- preceding the official conference. Special thanks should
- go to Dan Langille for organizing the conference and to
- Scott Long for organizing the developer summit. FreeBSD
- 5.4-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata
- before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
- issues with 5.4. The Release Information
- page has more information about FreeBSD releases. The FreeBSD 5.4-RC4 release is now available.
- The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce
- the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC4, the last Release
- Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 unless a major problem is
- discovered as part of RC4. The RC4 ISO images and FTP based
- install support are available on most of the
-
- FreeBSD Mirror sites. The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to the upcoming
- OpenBSD release 3.7. Several new features including nested
- anchors and connection rate limiting are now available to
- the FreeBSD userbase. The January-March, 2005 status report is now
- available with 39 entries. The FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 release is now available.
- The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce
- the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, the third Release
- Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. The RC3 ISO images
- and FTP based install support are available on most of the
- FreeBSD Mirror sites. New committer: Qing Li
- (src) New committer: Jean-Yves Lefort
- (ports) New committer: Sam Lawrance
- (ports) The FreeBSD 5.4-RC2 release is now available.
- The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce
- the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC2, the second Release
- Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. We encourage people
- to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified
- and worked out before the actual release. The RC2 ISO images
- and FTP based install support are available on most of the
- FreeBSD Mirror sites. New committer: Joel Dahl
- (doc) The FreeBSD 5.4-RC1 release is now available.
- The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce
- the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC1, the first Release
- Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle. We encourage people
- to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified
- and worked out before the actual release. The RC1 ISO images
- and FTP based install support are available on most of the
- FreeBSD Mirror sites. Enhanced commit privileges: Alexander Leidinger (src, ports) The FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 release is now available.
- This is the first BETA release for the FreeBSD 5.4 release
- cycle and the Release Engineering Team encourages people
- to help with testing so that any final bugs can be identified
- and worked out before the actual release.
- The BETA1 ISO images and FTP based install support
- are available on most of the
- FreeBSD Mirror sites. The FreeBSD 6-CURRENT snapshot releases in March 2005 are
- now available. Note that 5-STABLE snapshots are not available
- in this month because 5.4-PRERELEASE builds will be available soon.
- The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released
- snapshot releases of 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT on a monthly basis
- to encourage people to test new features
- and improve the reliability. For more details, please visit
- the snapshots page. GNOME 2.10.0 has been released and merged into the ports
- tree in time for 5.4-RELEASE. Be sure to checkout
- our upgrade FAQ
- for all the changes, upgrade instructions, and
- known issues. Additional resources can be found
- at the FreeBSD GNOME
- homepage. New committer: Roman Bogorodskiy (ports) New committer: Damien Bergamini (src) New committer: Jesus R. Camou (doc) New committer: Florent Thoumie (ports) New committer: Simon Barner (ports) Logo design competition is open New committer: Tai-hwa Liang (src) FreeBSD
- 4.11-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata
- before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
- issues with 4.11. The Release Information
- page has more information about FreeBSD releases. The July-December, 2004 status report is now
- available with 44 entries. The third Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been
- made available. Please see the full announcement on
- the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here.
- The full 4.11 release schedule is here. The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been
- made available. Please see the full announcement on
- the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here.
- The full 4.11 release schedule is here. The Mozilla License Team
- has granted permission
- to the FreeBSD Gnome Team
- for use of the Firefox and Thunderbird names,
- official icons, and permission to do
- officially branded builds. New committer: Sam Hopkins (src) The FreeBSD Foundation has published its Quarterly
- Newsletter, which includes a call for donations so
- the Foundation can keep its non-profit public charity
- 501(c)3 status. The first Release Candidate for FreeBSD 4.11 has been
- made available. Please see the full announcement on
- the FreeBSD-STABLE mailing list here.
- The full 4.11 release schedule is
- here. New committer: Niels Heinen
- (ports) The FreeSBIE 1.1 FreeBSD
- Live CD is released -- see the release
- announcement for details. New committer: Palle Girgensohn
- (ports) The schedule for the FreeBSD 4.11 Release has been
- announced, with a target release date of January 24th,
- 2005. The full schedule is
- here. New committer: Jean-Sébastien Pédron
- (src) The 'FreeBSD' trademark, which was originally granted
- to Walnut Creek CDROM (now FreeBSD Mall,
- Inc.) in 1996, has been transferred to the FreeBSD
- Foundation. New committer: Vicente Carrasco
- (doc) New committer: Johann Kois
- (doc) GNOME 2.8.1 was merged into the ports tree
- following the release of FreeBSD 5.3. See
- the FreeBSD GNOME
- Homepage for more details as well
- as upgrade instructions. FreeBSD
- 5.3-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata
- before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
- issues with 5.3. The Release Information
- page has more information about FreeBSD releases. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to
- announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-RC2. Two
- critical issues came up during RC1 testing and it is
- felt the fixes warrant one more RC so they receive
- widespread testing. If no more show-stopper problems
- are found this will be the last test release done before
- 5.3-RELEASE. Please see the full announcement on
- FreeBSD-CURRENT here. New committer: Michael Johnson (ports) New committer: Remko Lodder (doc) New committer: George V. Neville-Neil
- (src) New committer: Stephan Uphoff
- (src) New committer: Koop Mast
- (ports) New committer: Xin Li
- (src, doc) New committer: Alexey Dokuchaev
- (ports) New committer: Dejan Lesjak
- (ports) New committer: Cheng-Lung Sung
- (ports) New committer: Dmitry Morozovsky
- (doc) New committer: Herve Quiroz
- (ports) New committer: Pyun YongHyeon
- (src) New committer: Bjoern A. Zeeb
- (src) The May-June status report is now available; see the status reports Web
- page for more information. New committer: Suleiman Souhlal
- (PowerPC) FreeBSD-CURRENT now ships with X.Org's X Window System per default,
- though XFree86 is still supported. For more information on how to
- upgrade for -CURRENT and -STABLE, take
- a look at this
-
- HEADS UP. New committer: Gleb Smirnoff
- (src) New committer: Sergey Matveychuk
- (ports) New committer: Lars Thegler
- (ports) FreeBSD
- 4.10-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata
- before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
- issues with 4.10. The Release Information
- page has more information about FreeBSD releases. New committer: Koichi Suzuki
- (doc) The March-April status report is now available; see the
- status reports Web page
- for more information. New committer: Christian S.J. Peron
- (src) New committer: Stefan Farfeleder
- (src) New committer: Jeremy Messenger
- (ports) New committer: Tony Ackerman
- (src) New committer: Marius Strobl
- (src) New committer: Daniel Hartmeier
- (src) New committer: Niklas J. Saers
- (doc) Because of the hard maintenance and low benefit the
- gallery
- pages bring to the Project and the listed websites,
- it has been decided to spend the time working on other
- stuff related to FreeBSD than these pages. The gallery
- will be removed in two weeks, no further submissions will
- be processed. However, this has no influence on the
- Commercial Gallery. New committer: Mark Santcroos
- (src) The January-February status report is now available; see the
- status reports Web page
- for more information. New committer: Thierry Thomas
- (ports) New committer: Volker Stolz
- (ports) New committer: Peter Edwards
- (src) New committer: Vinod Kashyap
- (src) FreeBSD
- 5.2.1-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata
- before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
- issues with 5.2.1. The Release Information
- page has more information about FreeBSD releases. New committer: Markus Brüffer
- (Ports) New committer: Jim Rees
- (src) Core member resigned: Greg Lehey New committer: Max Laier
- (src) New committer: Lukas Ertl
- (src) New committer: Pawel Jakub Dawidek
- (src) The October-December status report is now available; see the
- status reports Web page
- for more information. New committer: Philip Paeps
- (src) New committer: Colin Percival
- (src) New committer: Josef El-Rayes
- (docs) FreeBSD
- 5.2-RELEASE has been released. Please check the release errata
- before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
- issues with 5.2. The Release Information
- page has more information about FreeBSD releases. New committer: Vincent Tougait
- (Documentation Project) According to this review, "FreeBSD is an enterprise-grade
- operating system that leaves little to be desired." Covers a few FreeBSD-derived operating systems. The author shows how to set up a RAID 1 using the gmirror
- facility available in FreeBSD 5 and 6. Press about new releases from the *BSD projects. A reviewer recommends FreeBSD 6.0 for the desktop. A comparison of the operational security of Windows(r),
- Linux and FreeBSD. A technical article comparing scheduling, memory
- management, and file system architecture in these three
- open-source kernels. BSDForums interviews FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long
- about various aspects of FreeBSD, including FreeBSD 6.0,
- Apple G4 PowerMac support, AMD64 and wireless
- compatibility. The Sun Cobalt RaQ550 web hosting platform has been ported
- to FreeBSD. An article about work being done to port Sun's DTrace to
- FreeBSD. An interview with FreeBSD release engineer Scott Long about
- the upcoming 6.0 release. Colin Percival, FreeBSD developer and independent security
- researcher, describes his recent work on covert channels in
- hyperthreaded processors. A brief introduction to the BSD family of OSes. On using Windows(R) network drivers in FreeBSD. Code analysis software firm Coverity analyses FreeBSD's source base and
- finds a very low number of software flaws. OSnews interviews FreeBSD developers Scott Long, Robert
- Watson and John Baldwin about the upcoming FreeBSD 6
- release. "Freedom and choice are pretty cool. But we should talk
- about many other things. GPL is based on the belief that
- open source software is weak and needs to be protected. With
- it, we continue injuring ourselves, cutting ourselves from
- the economic benefits of BSD license". BitDefender announces their move into enterprise space
- with a FreeBSD version of their products. LSI Logic MegaRAID(R) SCSI and SATA adapters now support
- the latest FreeBSD 5.4 release. An article on using FreeBSD 5.4 on a laptop. Offmyserver, a rackmount server provider, recently migrated
- 50 servers to FreeBSD, on account of its reliability and ability
- to handle large amounts of disk. An excerpt from the book "The Design and Implementation of the
- FreeBSD Operating System". Dru Lavigne describes the steps taken for maintaining up to date
- a FreeBSD system this year. OnLamp.com's writer interviews FreeBSD's Core Team member
- Scott Long about FreeBSD's implementation on SMPng. A study by a London-based computer security firm reveals
- that the open-source BSD operating systems and Apple's Mac
- OS X are the most secure popular operating systems on the
- Internet today. How to build diskless clients with FreeBSD Netboot server. How to configure a FreeBSD 5.2.1 server to support
- diskless clients. A story about the FreeBSD 5.3 release cycle Part five of this series of introductory articles describes
- how to use FreeBSD for email purposes. An article that compares and contrasts the four main BSD
- variants. Part four of this series of introductory articles covers the
- installation and the configuration of Apsfilter on FreeBSD. Robert Watson and Poul-Henning Kamp write an article for
- the ACM Queue magazine on FreeBSD's jail facility
- and on the general concept of sharing and security from an
- operating system architecture/design point of view. This article is about the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release. Genesis Software builds FreeBSD-based radar systems. An article mentioning FreeBSD's growth in the hosting market. This article explains printing with Unix, using FreeBSD as
- an example. How to build a web services cluster using the FreeBSD based
- FreeSBIE live CD image. This article shows how to defend against denial of service attacks with
- FreeBSD. A story about Poul-Henning Kamp's recent appeal for funds. This article tries to outline the reasons for FreeBSD's
- growth over the last years. Part three of this series of introductory articles covers the
- installation of third party applications on FreeBSD. FreeBSD continues to grow in the web hosting market. The IEEE and the Open Group allow the FreeBSD project to
- incorporate material from a few of their published
- standards. The description of a FreeBSD-powered motorcycle. Dru Lavigne explains how to connect a FreeBSD machine to
- an existing network. An overview about the research projects in Intel's laboratories.
- Some of the research is done using the FreeBSD operating system. Jordan Hubbard talks about FreeBSD in an article on using
- open-source software in commercial products. A review of FreeBSD 5.2.1, including a short overview of the history
- of the BSDs and installation instructions. This article describes setting up Exim with the Exiscan-ACL
- patch on FreeBSD. Five of the ten most reliable hosting providers in March
- were running FreeBSD. Read on for more information. An article reviewing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on SPARC64 machines.
- The author finds FreeBSD/SPARC64 to be a very complete,
- useful and flexible server. A comparison between FreeBSD 5.2.1's performance on
- an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and on a Pentium4 3.2E. An article about free wireless networks in San Francisco,
- mentioning FreeBSD as one of the operating systems of choice. A guide on setting up and running the backup program Bacula on FreeBSD A review of FreeBSD 5.1 as a desktop system. This is the second part of a series of introductory articles.
- The author explains how to set up X and the postfix mail system. This IEEE journal article looks at how the availability of
- high-quality open-source software is affecting the way
- software is developed. FreeBSD is one of the open-source
- projects examined.