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<!DOCTYPE news PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for News//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/news.dtd">
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Divide time in to <year>, <month>, and <day> elements, each of which
has a <name>.
each <day> element contains one or more <event> elements.
Each <event> contains an optional <title>, and then a <p>. <p> elements
can contain <a> anchors.
Use the <title> element if the <p> content is lengthy. When generating
synopses of this information (e.g., for syndication using RDF files),
the contents of <title> will be preferred over <p>.
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<news>
<cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
<cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
$FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.192 2008/08/25 23:40:56 stas Exp $
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<year>
<name>2008</name>
<month>
<name>9</name>
<day>
<name>5</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org">Josh Paetzel</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>8</name>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:makc@FreeBSD.org">Max Brazhnikov</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>25</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a
href="mailto:stas@FreeBSD.org">Stanislav Sedov</a>
(src, ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>22</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a
href="mailto:trasz@FreeBSD.org">Edward Tomasz Napierala</a>
(src, ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>19</name>
<event>
<title>April - June, 2008 Status Reports</title>
<p>The April - June, 2008 Status Reports are <a
href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2008-04-2008-06.html">now
available</a> with 14 entries.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>6</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a
href="mailto:pgj@FreeBSD.org">G&aacute;bor P&aacute;li</a>
(full doc/www)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>7</name>
<day>
<name>28</name>
<event>
<title>&os; Foundation Requesting Project Proposals</title>
<p>The &os; Foundation is seeking the submission of proposals
for work relating to any of the major &os; subsystems or
infrastructure. A budget of $80,000 was allocated for 2008
to fund multiple development projects. Proposals will be
evaluated based on desirability, technical merit and
cost-effectiveness.</p>
<p>To find out more about the proposal process please read <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/FreeBSD%20Foundation%20Proposals.pdf">the call</a>.
</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>21</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:rnoland@FreeBSD.org">Robert Noland</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:vanhu@FreeBSD.org">Yvan Vanhullebus</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>18</name>
<event>
<title>&os; Foundation July 2008 Newsletter</title>
<p>The &os; Foundation has published their <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2008Jul-newsletter.shtml">Semi-Annual July 2008 newsletter</a>
which summarizes what they have done to help the &os;
Project and community.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<title>New &os; Core Team elected</title>
<p>The &os; Project is pleased to announce the conclusion
of our fourth consecutive democratic election of project
leadership. The &os; Core Team constitutes the
project's "Board of Directors" and is responsible for
vetting new src committers, arbitrating technical
disagreements, weighing in on policy and administrative
issues, and appointing sub-committees for handling
specific duties (security officer, release engineers, port
managers, webmasters, etc..). The core team has been
democratically elected every 2 years by active &os;
committers since 2000.</p>
<p>Peter Wemm is rejoining the team after a 2 year hiatus,
and Kris Kennaway is joining the team for the first time.
The remaining 7 slots were filled with incumbents Wilko
Bulte, Brooks Davis, Giorgos Keramidas, George
V. Neville-Neil, Hiroki Sato, Murray Stokely, and Robert
Watson.</p>
<p>The new core team would like to especially thank outgoing
members Wes Peters and Warner Losh for their many years of
service to &os;, our electioneer Dr. Josef Karthauser
for running another election for us, and our returning
core secretary Philip Paeps.</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:pgollucci@FreeBSD.org">Philip M. Gollucci</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:glarkin@FreeBSD.org">Greg Larkin</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>8</name>
<event>
<title>iXsystems Announces Professional &os; and PC-BSD Support
Offering</title>
<p>A <a
href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/7/prweb1073304.htm">press
release</a> announcing the launch of iXsystems' Professional
Services Division which will provide Professional Enterprise
Grade support, consulting, and development for &os; and PC-BSD.</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:sson@FreeBSD.org">Stacey
Son</a> (src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org">Nathan
Whitehorn</a> (src)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>6</name>
<day>
<name>23</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:erik@FreeBSD.org">Erik
Cederstrand</a> (projects)</p>
</event>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD Technologies in Firefox 3</title>
<p>A
<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/6/prweb1042664.htm">press
release</a> describing FreeBSD technologies used by Mozilla
Firefox.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>19</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:amdmi3@FreeBSD.org">Dmitry Marakasov</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>16</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:eri@FreeBSD.org">Ermal
Lu&#231;i</a> (src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>New committer: <a href="mailto:ivoras@FreeBSD.org">Ivan Voras</a>
(src). SoC2005-2007 alumnus.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:ivoras@FreeBSD.org">Ivan Voras</a> is now
a src/ committer. He participated in the <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc">Google Summer of
Code</a> program in 2005, 2006, and 2007.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD begins switch to Subversion</title>
<p>The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code
management system from CVS to <a
href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a>. At this
point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the
base system in the Subversion repository. We have a replication
system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on
a continuous basis.</p>
<p>People who are using our extensive CVS based distribution
network (including anoncvs, CVSup, cvsweb, ftp) will not be
interrupted by our work-in-progress. We are committed to
maintaining the existing CVS based distribution system for
at least the support lifetime of all existing &quot;stable&quot;
branches. Security and errata patches will continue to be made
available in their usual CVS locations.</p>
<p>We expect to make our Subversion based source tree and other
supporting infrastructure public soon. There will be new
mailing lists to subscribe to if you wish to receive Subversion
commit notifications.</p>
<p>Our ports, doc and www trees are not affected at this time. A
separate decision will be made regarding those CVS repositories
soon.</p>
<p>Many people have contributed to the effort, but we wish
to thank Michael Haggerty and the <a
href="http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/">cvs2svn</a> project developers
for their assistance with cvs2svn. <a
href="mailto:peter@FreeBSD.org">Peter Wemm</a> spent several weeks
of <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!'s</a> time repairing
the CVS tree, preparing for and performing the conversion, and
the configuration of the Subversion infrastructure. Yahoo!
donated the server hardware.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>5</name>
<day>
<name>24</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:manolis@FreeBSD.org">Manolis
Kiagias</a> (doc/www)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>22</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:ed@FreeBSD.org">Ed
Schouten</a> (src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>14</name>
<event>
<title>January - March, 2008 Status Reports</title>
<p>The January - March, 2008 Status Reports are <a
href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2008-01-2008-03.html">now
available</a> with 13 entries.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>4</name>
<day>
<name>22</name>
<event>
<title>Funded Summer of Code Projects Announced</title>
<p>The FreeBSD Project received over 100 applications for <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc">Google's
Summer of Code</a> program, amongst which 21 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.</p>
<p>A complete list of the winning students and projects is
available <a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2008.html">here</a>.
A <a
href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2008">Summer of
Code wiki</a> has been created and additional information
about the projects will be added there soon.</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:pgj@FreeBSD.org">G&aacute;bor
P&aacute;li</a> (Hungarian doc/www)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>3</name>
<day>
<name>31</name>
<event>
<title>Student deadline extended for Summer of Code</title>
<p>The deadline for student applications to participate in
the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc">Google Summer of
Code</a> has been extended by one week. The new deadline
is Monday, April 7, 2008. If you haven't already, please
visit our <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/summerofcode.html">FreeBSD
Summer of Code page</a> and look at the example project
ideas we've listed there, or propose your own. There are
many new ideas listed since the first announcements went
out.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<title>Now Accepting Student Applications for Google Summer of Code</title>
<p>The student application period for the Google <a
href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Summer of
Code 2008</a> program has begun. Please peruse our list
of FreeBSD specific <a
href="&enbase;/projects/summerofcode.html">projects and
potential mentors</a> and prepare your application before
the March 31 deadline. Earlier applications are
encouraged as this provides an opportunity for potential
mentors to work on improving the applications with
students before the deadline.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<title>Participating in Google Summer of Code</title>
<p>The FreeBSD Project will soon be accepting applications for
the Google <a
href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Summer
of Code 2008</a> 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 <a
href="&enbase;/projects/summerofcode.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>Once a suitable project and mentor have been identified,
interested students should complete a proposal and submit
it to Google. The application period begins on March 24,
2008 and the final deadline is April 1, 2008 0:00 UTC.
Please see the <a
href="http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html">Google
FAQ</a> for more information.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>14</name>
<event>
<title>New committer: <a href="mailto:rdivacky@FreeBSD.org">Roman Divacky</a>
(src). SoC2006-2007 alumnus.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:rdivacky@FreeBSD.org">Roman Divacky</a>
is now a src/ committer. He participated in the Summer of
Code program in 2006 and 2007, where he worked on Linux
2.6 compatibility.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>8</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:lippe@FreeBSD.org">Felippe M. Motta</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>2</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:jadawin@FreeBSD.org">Philippe Audeoud</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>2</name>
<day>
<name>27</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available</title>
<p><a href="&enbase;/releases/7.0R/announce.html">FreeBSD
7.0-RELEASE</a> is now available. The
<a href="&enbase;/releases/7.0R/errata.html">release errata</a>
will be updated with late-breaking news and/or
issues with 7.0, and should be consulted before
installation. For more information about FreeBSD releases,
see the <a
href="&enbase;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a>
page.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<p>pfSense 1.2 <a
href="http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=170">released</a>.</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:ganbold@FreeBSD.org">Ganbold Tsagaankhuu</a>
(doc/www)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>21</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:gahr@FreeBSD.org">Pietro Cerutti</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<title>October-December, 2007 Status Reports</title>
<p>The October-December, 2007 Status Reports are <a
href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2007-10-2007-12.html">now
available</a> with 25 entries.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>14</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:olli@FreeBSD.org">Oliver Fromme</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>12</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 Available</title>
<p>The second release candidate of FreeBSD 7.0 is now <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-February/040426.html">available</a>.
ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
FreeBSD mirror sites</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>5</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:antoine@FreeBSD.org">Antoine Brodin</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>1</name>
<day>
<name>27</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:gonzo@FreeBSD.org">Oleksandr Tymoshenko</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>18</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Available</title>
<p><a href="&enbase;/releases/6.3R/announce.html">FreeBSD
6.3-RELEASE</a> is now available. Please be sure to check
the <a
href="&enbase;/releases/6.3R/errata.html">release errata</a>
before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
issues with 6.3. More information about FreeBSD releases
can be found on the <a
href="&enbase;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a>
page.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<title>6 New RSS 2.0 Feeds Available</title>
<p>Six new RSS 2.0 feeds have been made available on the
FreeBSD website. It is now possible to subscribe to RSS
2.0 feeds for : <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/rss.xml">FreeBSD Project
News</a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/press-rss.xml">FreeBSD
In the Media</a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/events/rss.xml">Upcoming
FreeBSD Events</a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/rss.xml">FreeBSD
Security Advisories</a>, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/java/rss.xml">FreeBSD Java
Updates</a>, and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/rss.xml">FreeBSD GNOME
Updates</a>. There is also an RSS 0.91 feed available for
<a href="http://freebsd.kde.org/news.rdf">FreeBSD KDE
Updates</a>.</p>
<p>The new feeds all validate properly and have been tested
with popular feed reading software. Please mail <a
href="mailto:freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org</a>
if you have any problems with the new feeds.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<p>DesktopBSD 1.6 is <a
href="http://www.desktopbsd.net/index.php?id=43&amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=33&amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=55&amp;cHash=46bfdce5e4">released</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>4</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:wxs@FreeBSD.org">Wesley Shields</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2007</name>
<month>
<name>12</name>
<day>
<name>31</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD 6.3-RC2 Available</title>
<p>The second release candidate of FreeBSD 6.3 has been <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/039352.html">announced</a>.
ISO images and distributions for Tier-1 architectures are
now available on most of the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
FreeBSD mirror sites</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>30</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 Available</title>
<p>The first release candidate of FreeBSD 7.0 is now <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/039334.html">available</a>.
ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
FreeBSD mirror sites</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>28</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:weongyo@FreeBSD.org">Weongyo Jeong</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:raj@FreeBSD.org">Rafal Jaworowski</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>25</name>
<event>
<title>Juniper Networks, Inc has donated a reference FreeBSD
port to the MIPS architecture</title>
<p>Juniper Networks, Inc. (http://www.juniper.net) has donated a
reference FreeBSD port to the MIPS architecture to The FreeBSD
Project.
This code will be used as one reference for creating an official
project-supported FreeBSD/MIPS offering.</p>
<p>Information about the code drop can be found <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/juniper-mips.html">here</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>End-of-Year Fund Raising Drive</title>
<p>The <a href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org">FreeBSD
Foundation</a> has announced an End-of-Year Fund Raising
Drive. The goal this year is to raise over $250,000.
This money is used for sponsoring FreeBSD related conferences,
providing travel grants to developers to attend these conferences,
providing grants for projects that improve FreeBSD, and
providing legal support on issues like understanding
the GPLv3 impact on FreeBSD, trademarks, and other legal
issues that come up.</p>
<p>Donations can be made online from <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>5</name>
<event>
<title>&os; 7.0-BETA4 Available</title>
<p>The &os; 7.0 release process proceeds and as a consequence
the 7.0-BETA4 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/038873.html">
available</a> for download on most <a
href="&enbase;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
&os; mirror sites</a>. We ask our users to report any
outstanding bugs, as this will presumably be the last BETA
release before the first RC release.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>11</name>
<day>
<name>29</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 Available</title>
<p>The first release candidate of FreeBSD 6.3 has been <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/038670.html">announced</a>.
ISO images and distributions for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
FreeBSD mirror sites</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>19</name>
<event>
<title>&os; 7.0-BETA3 Available</title>
<p>The &os; 7.0 release process proceeds and as a consequence
the 7.0-BETA3 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/038388.html">
available</a> for download on most <a
href="&enbase;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
&os; mirror sites</a>. We ask our users to report any
outstanding bugs.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>4</name>
<event>
<title>&os; 7.0-BETA2 Available</title>
<p>The &os; 7.0 release process proceeds and as a consequence
the 7.0-BETA2 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037966.html">
available</a> for download on most <a
href="&enbase;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
&os; mirror sites</a>. We ask our users to report any
outstanding bugs, as this will presumably be the last BETA
release before the first RC release.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>1</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:brix@FreeBSD.org">Henrik Brix Andersen</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>10</name>
<day>
<name>27</name>
<event>
<title>The FreeBSD Foundation auctions the first copy of the book
&#34;Absolute &os;, 2nd Edition&#34;</title>
<p>The &os; Foundation has started its Fall Fund-Raising
Campaign with an auction of the first copy of the book
&#34;Absolute &os;, 2nd Edition&#34; which was graciously
donated by the author Michael Lucas. The winner of this
auction will get a laser-printed Certificate of Authenticity
together with a signed bookplate. All proceeds will go to
The &os; Foundation! The bidding ends on November 2nd.
More information is available on <a
href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=120175384688&amp;ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123">eBay</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a href="mailto:miwi@FreeBSD.org">Martin Wilke</a>
(ports, doc)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>25</name>
<event>
<title>New committer: <a href="mailto:lulf@FreeBSD.org">Ulf Lilleengen</a>
(src). SoC2007 alumnus.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:lulf@FreeBSD.org">Ulf Lilleengen</a> is now a src/
committer. He participated in the Summer of Code program, where he
worked on gvinum. In FreeBSD, Ulf will continue to work on gvinum,
as well as csup and filesystem-related parts.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>22</name>
<event>
<title>&os; 7.0-BETA1 Available</title>
<p>The final stage of the &os;-7.0 Release cycle has begun
with the first beta release. The &os; 7.0-BETA1 ISO images
for Tier-1 architectures are now <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-October/037539.html">available</a>
for download on most of the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
&os; mirror sites</a>. The more people that test and
report bugs, the better &os; 7.0-RELEASE will be. For more
information about the &os; 7.0 release process, please check
the official <a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/schedule.html">schedule</a>
and the <a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/todo.html">todo</a>
list.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>July-October, 2007 Status Reports</title>
<p>The July-October, 2007 Status Reports is <a
href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2007-07-2007-10.html">now
available</a> with 21 entries.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<title>PC-BSD 1.4 Released</title>
<p>PC-BSD 1.4 has just been released. PC-BSD is a
successful desktop operating system based on FreeBSD that
focuses on providing an easy to use desktop system for
casual computer users. The release may be <a
href="http://www.pcbsd.org">downloaded</a> or <a
href="http://www.freebsdmall.com">purchased</a> on CD.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>9</name>
<day>
<name>28</name>
<event>
<title>New committer: <a href="mailto:kaiw@FreeBSD.org">Kai Wang</a>
(src). SoC2007 alumnus.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:kaiw@FreeBSD.org">Kai Wang</a>, a
student in the Summer of Code program, is now a
src/ committer.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>25</name>
<event>
<title>New committer: <a href="mailto:rpaulo@FreeBSD.org">Rui Paulo</a>
(src). SoC2007 alumnus.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:rpaulo@FreeBSD.org">Rui Paulo</a>, a
student in the Summer of Code program, is now a full
src/ committer.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<title>Summer of Code Projects Completed</title>
<p>We are happy to report that 22 students successfully
completed their FreeBSD <a
href="&enbase;/projects/summerofcode-2007.html">Summer of
Code</a> projects. Congratulations to both mentors and
students, and thanks to <a
href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a> for running
this program and providing funding.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>8</name>
<day>
<name>29</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD Foundation August 2007 newsletter</title>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation has published their
<a href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2007Aug-newsletter.shtml">
August 2007 newsletter</a> which summarizes their activities
so far this year.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>20</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org">Thomas Abthorpe</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>2</name>
<event>
<title>IPv6 live at the FreeBSD.org cluster</title>
<p>Most of the machines and services in the FreeBSD.org cluster
are now available through IPv6. This includes www, mail and
developer ssh access. Connectivity is provided from ISC using
a tunnel.</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:loader@FreeBSD.org">Fukang Chen</a>
(doc)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>7</name>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>April-June, 2007 Status Report</title>
<p>The April-June, 2007 Status Report is <a
href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2007-04-2007-06.html">now
available</a> with 49 entries.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:lme@FreeBSD.org">Lars Engels</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>6</name>
<day>
<name>25</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a href="mailto:edwin@FreeBSD.org">Edwin Groothuis</a>
(src, ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>24</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:scf@FreeBSD.org">Sean C. Farley</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>12</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a
href="mailto:timur@FreeBSD.org">Timur I. Bakeyev</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a
href="mailto:chinsan@FreeBSD.org">Chin-San Huang</a>
(doc, ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>7</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD Project Integrates Support for the Camellia Block Cipher</title>
<p>Support for the Camellia block cipher has been integrated
into FreeBSD 7-CURRENT and will be part of the upcoming
FreeBSD 7-RELEASE. For more information, please refer to the <a
href="http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/6/emw531216.htm">
press release</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>4</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a href="mailto:jkois@FreeBSD.org">Johann Kois</a>
(full doc/www)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>5</name>
<day>
<name>30</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a
href="mailto:beech@FreeBSD.org">Beech Rintoul</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>29</name>
<event>
<title>New committer: <a href="mailto:attilio@FreeBSD.org">Attilio Rao</a>
(src). SoC2007 alumnus.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:attilio@FreeBSD.org">Attilio Rao</a>, a
student in the Summer of Code program, is now a full
src/ committer.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>19</name>
<event>
<title>Xorg 7.2 imported into the ports collection.</title>
<p>Thanks to the hard work of
<a href="mailto:flz@FreeBSD.org">Florent Thoumie</a> (and
others), the FreeBSD ports collection now uses the modular
Xorg 7.2 as its default X server. i386 and AMD64 6.2-STABLE
packages are available and other architectures/releases
will be available later, or you can compile it from
source. In both cases, see <a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/UPDATING?rev=1.504;content-type=text%2Fplain">
the 20070519 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING</a> on how to upgrade. Please track <a
href="http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-ports.html">-ports</a>
for last minute information.
</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>4</name>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:araujo@FreeBSD.org">Marcelo Araujo</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>25</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:nemoliu@FreeBSD.org">Tong Liu</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>13</name>
<event>
<title>Funded Summer of Code Projects Announced</title>
<p>The FreeBSD Project received over 120 applications for <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc">Google's
Summer of Code</a> program, amongst which 25 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.</p>
<p>A complete list of the winning students and projects is
available <a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2007.html">here</a>.
A <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/SummerOfCode2007">Summer
of Code wiki</a> is also available with additional information.</p>
</event>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:trasz@FreeBSD.org">Edward Tomasz Napierala</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
<event>
<title>Mongolian FreeBSD Documentation Project Launches</title>
<p>Under the supervision of <a
href="mailto:ganbold@micom.mng.net">Ganbold Tsagaankhuu</a> the
Mongolian translation goes live. The official translation of the
FreeBSD Handbook, completed by the Mongolian FreeBSD Documentation
Project, adds support for documentation in another language. For
more information about the ongoing work of the MFDP, please refer
to the <a href="&enbase;/docproj/translations.html">Translations page
of the FreeBSD Documentation Project</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>12</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:mav@FreeBSD.org">Alexander Motin</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<title>January-March, 2007 Status Report</title>
<p>The January-March, 2007 Status Report is <a
href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2007-01-2007-03.html">now
available</a> with 19 entries.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>6</name>
<event>
<title>ZFS Now Part of FreeBSD</title>
<p>Support for Sun's <a href="http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/">
ZFS</a> has been committed
to the FreeBSD 7-CURRENT development branch and will be available
as an experimental feature in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. For more
information please refer to the <a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-April/070544.html">
announcement</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>4</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:mm@FreeBSD.org">Martin Matuska</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:lwhsu@FreeBSD.org">Li-Wen Hsu</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>3</name>
<day>
<name>28</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:sephe@FreeBSD.org">Sepherosa Ziehau</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>14</name>
<event>
<title>Accepting Applications for Summer of Code</title>
<p>The FreeBSD Project is now accepting applications for
the Google <a
href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Summer
of Code 2007</a> 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 <a
href="&enbase;/projects/summerofcode.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>Once a suitable project and mentor have been identified,
interested students should complete a proposal and submit
it to Google. Proposals are now being accepted and the
final deadline is March 24, 2007. Please see the <a
href="http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442">Google
FAQ</a> for more information.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>12</name>
<event>
<title>March 2007 Snapshot Releases Available</title>
<p>FreeBSD 7-CURRENT and 6-STABLE snapshot releases for
March 2007 now available. The FreeBSD Release Engineering
Team issues snapshot releases to encourage users to test
new features and improve the reliability. For more
details, please visit
<a href="&enbase;/snapshots/index.html">the snapshots
page</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>11</name>
<event>
<title>New committer: <a
href="mailto:bushman@FreeBSD.org">Michael Bushkov</a>
(src). An SoC2006 alumnus.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:bushman@FreeBSD.org">Michael Bushkov</a>, a
successful student from last year's Summer of Code
program, has continued working with the FreeBSD Project
and is now a full src/ committer.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems</title>
<p>Recently there has been significant progress on optimizing
FreeBSD 7.0 for MySQL running an 8-core amd64 system. Under the
test workload FreeBSD has peak performance consistent with Linux,
and outperforms it by a factor of 4 under higher loads. Continue
reading for a more <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html">detailed
report here.</a></p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>7</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD Announces Intel Approval for Redistribution of Wireless Firmware</title>
<p>The FreeBSD project has reached an agreement with Intel about the redistribution
of firmware images for Intel wireless cards. Please refer to the <a
href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/03/prweb509818.htm">press release</a>
for more information.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>2</name>
<day>
<name>27</name>
<event>
<p><a href="&enbase;/releng/dst_info.html">Information</a>
about how the change in Daylight Savings Time for some
time zones affects FreeBSD releases.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>23</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a
href="mailto:remko@FreeBSD.org">Remko Lodder</a>
(doc,src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:jinmei@FreeBSD.org">JINMEI, Tatuya</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>16</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:sepotvin@FreeBSD.org">Stephane E. Potvin</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:benjsc@FreeBSD.org">Benjamin Close</a>
(src)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<title>Podcast Interview with FreeBSD Core Team Member and
AsiaBSDCon 2007 Program Committee Chair George V.
Neville-Neil.</title>
<p>In his latest <a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/">bsdtalk</a>
podcast, Will Backman interviews FreeBSD Developer George V.
Neville-Neil about the upcoming AsiaBSDCon conference.
<a
href="http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk099.mp3">
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk099.mp3</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>8</name>
<event>
<title>AsiaBSDCon 2007 Announces Conference Schedule</title>
<p>AsiaBSDCon, the BSD conference for Asia, has posted its schedule of
tutorials, papers and presentations for the conference, taking place
in Tokyo from March 8th through 11th 2007. The complete schedule can
be found <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>Registration will begin on or about the 12th of February.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>2</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a
href="mailto:gabor@FreeBSD.org">G&aacute;bor K&ouml;vesd&aacute;n</a>
(doc, ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>1</name>
<day>
<name>31</name>
<event>
<p>Enhanced commit privileges: <a
href="mailto:rafan@FreeBSD.org">Rong-En Fan</a>
(src, ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>18</name>
<event>
<p>New committer: <a href="mailto:db@FreeBSD.org">Diane Bruce</a>
(ports)</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>16</name>
<event>
<title>October-December, 2006 Status Report</title>
<p>The October-December, 2006 Status Report is <a
href="&enbase;/news/status/report-2006-10-2006-12.html">now
available</a> with 41 entries.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>15</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is Now Available</title>
<p><a href="&enbase;/releases/6.2R/announce.html">FreeBSD
6.2-RELEASE</a> has been released. Please check the <a
href="&enbase;/releases/6.2R/errata.html">release errata</a>
before installation for any late-breaking news and/or
issues with 6.2. The <a
href="&enbase;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a>
page has more information about FreeBSD releases.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<title>Hungarian FreeBSD Documentation Project Launches</title>
<p>Under the supervision of FreeBSD developer G&aacute;bor K&ouml;vesd&aacute;n, the
Hungarian translation goes live. This official translation,
completed by the Hungarian FreeBSD Documentation Project, adds
support for documentation in another language. For more
information about the ongoing work of the HFDP team, please refer
to <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/translations.html">the
Translations page of the FreeBSD Documentation Project</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
</news>