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New committer: Tai-hwa Liang (src)

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+ 1 25 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE is Now Available

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.

17 July-December 2004 Status Report

The July-December, 2004 status report is now available with 44 entries.

FreeBSD 4.11 RC3 Available

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.

2 FreeBSD 4.11 RC2 Available

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.

2004 12 28 Mozilla approves FreeBSD's thunderbird and firefox ports

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)

23 FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter Published

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.

18 FreeBSD 4.11 RC1 Available

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.

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New committer: Niels Heinen (ports)

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The FreeSBIE 1.1 FreeBSD Live CD is released -- see the release announcement for details.

New committer: Palle Girgensohn (ports)

2 FreeBSD 4.11 release schedule announced

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.

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New committer: Jean-Sébastien Pédron (src)

11 27 FreeBSD trademark transferred to Foundation

The 'FreeBSD' trademark, which was originally granted to Walnut Creek CDROM (now FreeBSD Mall, Inc.) in 1996, has been transferred to the FreeBSD Foundation.

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New committer: Vicente Carrasco (doc)

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New committer: Johann Kois (doc)

7 GNOME 2.8.1 released for FreeBSD

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.

6 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE is Now Available

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.

10 31 FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 released

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.

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New committer: Michael Johnson (ports)

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New committer: Remko Lodder (doc)

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New committer: George V. Neville-Neil (src)

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New committer: Stephan Uphoff (src)

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New committer: Koop Mast (ports)

New committer: Xin Li (src, doc)

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New committer: Alexey Dokuchaev (ports)

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New committer: Dejan Lesjak (ports)

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New committer: Cheng-Lung Sung (ports)

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New committer: Dmitry Morozovsky (doc)

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New committer: Herve Quiroz (ports)

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New committer: Pyun YongHyeon (src)

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New committer: Bjoern A. Zeeb (src)

26 May 2004 - June 2004 Status Report

The May-June status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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New committer: Suleiman Souhlal (PowerPC)

23 FreeBSD switches to X.Org

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.

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New committer: Gleb Smirnoff (src)

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New committer: Sergey Matveychuk (ports)

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New committer: Lars Thegler (ports)

27 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE is Now Available

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.

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New committer: Koichi Suzuki (doc)

15 March 2004 - April 2004 Status Report

The March-April status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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New committer: Christian S.J. Peron (src)

New committer: Stefan Farfeleder (src)

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New committer: Jeremy Messenger (ports)

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New committer: Tony Ackerman (src)

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New committer: Marius Strobl (src)

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New committer: Daniel Hartmeier (src)

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New committer: Niklas J. Saers (doc)

25 Removal of Gallery

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.

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New committer: Mark Santcroos (src)

17 January 2004 - February 2004 Status Report

The January-February status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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New committer: Thierry Thomas (ports)

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New committer: Volker Stolz (ports)

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New committer: Peter Edwards (src)

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New committer: Vinod Kashyap (src)

25 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE is Now Available

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.

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New committer: Markus Brüffer (Ports)

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New committer: Jim Rees (src)

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Core member resigned: Greg Lehey

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New committer: Max Laier (src)

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New committer: Lukas Ertl (src)

New committer: Pawel Jakub Dawidek (src)

1 28 October 2003 - December 2003 Status Report

The October-December status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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New committer: Philip Paeps (src)

New committer: Colin Percival (src)

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New committer: Josef El-Rayes (docs)

12 FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE is Now Available

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.

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New committer: Vincent Tougait (Documentation Project)

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New committer: Alex Dupre (Documentation Project)

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New committer: Roman Kurakin (src)

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New committer: Clement Laforet (ports)

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Hifn announces official FreeBSD support for the 795x series of crypto accelerators.

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New committer: Mathew Kanner (midi,sound)

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New committer: Oliver Eikemeier (Ports)

New committer: Pav Lucistnik (ports)

New committer: Andre Oppermann (src)

10 28 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE is Now Available

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.9.

22 FreeBSD 10 year anniversary party in San Francisco 11/24/03

Join us Monday November 24th to celebrate 10 years of FreeBSD at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. The name 'FreeBSD' was coined in June 1993, and FreeBSD 1.0 was released on CDROM in December 1993. Click here for more information or to be put on the guest list.

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New committer: Sergei Kolobov (Ports)

18 BSD Conference Japan 2003

BSD Conference Japan 2003 (in Japanese), the second conference concerning *BSD in Japan, was held in Tokyo on October 18th, 2003. There were about 170 attendees. It had two parallel sessions (general and technical), and four technical papers and twelve work-in-progress style talks were presented during the conference.

17 The FreeBSD Events page is now available

The FreeBSD Events page is now available with information about past and upcoming FreeBSD related events.

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New committer: Mark Linimon (Ports)

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New committer: Scott Mitchell (if_xe)

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New committer: Maksim Yevmenkin (Bluetooth)

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New committer: Denis Peplin (Documentation Project)

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The FreeBSD Foundation announces native support for JDK 1.3.1 on FreeBSD

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FreeBSD 4.9 code freeze begins August 25

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New committer: Ken Smith (Documentation Project)

New committer: Mathieu Arnold (Ports)

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New committer: Alexander Nedotsukov (Ports)

11 FreeBSD Architecture Handbook now available

The nascent FreeBSD Architecture Handbook is now available online for users who would like to know more about FreeBSD kernel internals. Much of the material has been split out from the Developers' Handbook, which now focuses exclusively on userland programming in FreeBSD. Both volumes are works in progress.

9 PAE support merged for upcoming FreeBSD 4.9

Luoqi Chen has begun the process of merging PAE support from FreeBSD 5 to FreeBSD 4-STABLE. The PAE support allows FreeBSD machines to make use of more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. This functionality was originally written by Jake Burkholder under contract with DARPA and Network Associates Laboratories. Additional changes for individual device drivers will follow in the coming weeks.

New committer: Bruce M. Simpson

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New committer: Michael Nottebrock (Ports)

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New committer: Kirill Ponomarew (Ports)

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New committer: Simon L. Nielsen

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New committer: Sean Kelly

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New committer: Diomidis D. Spinellis

19 Happy 10th Birthday, FreeBSD Project!

Ten years ago on this day the name "FreeBSD" was coined by David Greenman in this email message. Viva FreeBSD!

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New committer: Lev Serebryakov (Ports)

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Returning committer: John-Mark Gurney

9 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is Now Available

FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE is now available. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.1.

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New committer: Sergey A. Osokin (Ports)

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New committer: Erwin Lansing (Ports)

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New committer: Oliver Lehmann (Ports)

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New committer: Michael L. Hostbaek

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New committer: Hiten M. Pandya

9 New performance@ mailing list

The performance@ mailing list exists to provide a place for hackers, administrators, and/or concerned parties to discuss performance related topics pertaining to FreeBSD. Acceptable topics includes talking about FreeBSD installations that are either under high load, are experiencing performance problems, or are pushing the limits of FreeBSD. Concerned parties that are willing to work toward improving the performance of FreeBSD are highly encouraged to subscribe to this list. This is a highly technical list ideally suited for experienced FreeBSD users, hackers, or administrators interested in keeping FreeBSD fast, robust, and scalable. To subscribe, please visit the freebsd-performance@ web interface.

8 FreeBSD.org mailing lists use Mailman

Majordomo served its purpose well, but has been retired in favor of Mailman. It is now possible to browse through the authoritative list of mailing lists by heading over to http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo or by browsing through the handbook's section on mailing lists. A big thanks to Peter Wemm is in order for spending the time to seamlessly convert the various lists over to Mailman, thank you.

3 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE is Now Available

FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.8.

3 15 January 2003 - February 2003 Status Report

The January-February status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

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New committer: Arun Sharma

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New committer: David Schultz

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New committer: Hartmut Brandt (Sparc and ATM)

23 November 2002 - December 2002 Status Report

The November-December status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.

New committer: Hideyuki KURASHINA (Documentation Project)

19 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE is now available

FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 5.0.

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New committer: Christian Brüffer (Documentation Project)

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New committer: Michael Telahun Makonnen