diff --git a/share/sgml/news.xml b/share/sgml/news.xml index e1e4a7697e..664dce9ecf 100644 --- a/share/sgml/news.xml +++ b/share/sgml/news.xml @@ -1,956 +1,964 @@ - $FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.219 2009/01/12 17:02:43 marcus Exp $ + $FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.220 2009/01/17 09:06:01 murray Exp $ 2009 1 + + 28 + +

New committer: Beat Gätzi + (ports)

+ + + 17 FreeBSD Kernel Internals Video Posted

The first lecture from Kirk McKusick's full length FreeBSD Kernel Internals course has been posted to the BSD Conferences channel on YouTube.

 9 GNOME 2.24.2 Available for FreeBSD

The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce the release of GNOME 2.24.2 for FreeBSD. More details can be found on the FreeBSD GNOME Project page.

 5 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 2008 12 25 FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available

The second and last release candidate of &os; 7.1 is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

 23 &os; Foundation December 2008 Newsletter

The &os; Foundation has published their Semi-Annual December 2008 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the &os; Project and community.

 9 FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 Available

The first release candidate of &os; 7.1 is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

 3 BSD channel launched on YouTube

We are pleased to announce the availability of a dedicated YouTube channel for technical lectures about FreeBSD and other BSD operating systems. The channel is available at www.youtube.com/bsdconferences.

This channel allows us to post full hour long lectures from FreeBSD conferences. The first four videos that Julian Elisher recorded at MeetBSD have been posted, and more are on the way.

 11 28 FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 6.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

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Commit bit restored: Peter Holm (src)

 16 Official FreeBSD Forums Launched

The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists.

You can register and start using our new service here: http://forums.FreeBSD.org.

 10 July - September, 2008 Status Reports

The July - September, 2008 Status Reports are now available with 14 entries.

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New committer: René Ladan (doc-nl)

 &os; 6.4-RC2 Available

The second Release Candidate for &os; 6.4 is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are available for download on most of the &os; mirror sites. &os; 6.4-RC2 should be the last of the public test builds for the FreeBSD 6.4 release cycle, therefore we encourage people to test and report any outstanding bugs as soon as possible.

 1 New committer: <a href="mailto:versus@FreeBSD.org"> Konrad Jankowski</a> (src) - SoC2008 alumnus.

New committer: Konrad Jankowski (src). Konrad participated in Summer Of Code 2008. He will begin his work in the i18n area, specifically in bringing his SoC code (UTF-8 collation) to the coming releases.

 10 19 &os; 7.1-BETA2 Available

The second beta release of &os; 7.1 is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be found on most of the &os; mirror sites.

 12 FreeBSD 6.4-RC1 Available

The first release candidate of FreeBSD 6.4 is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

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New committer: Lawrence Stewart (src)

 9 18 Summer of Code Projects Completed

We are happy to report that 19 students successfully completed their FreeBSD Summer of Code projects. Congratulations to both mentors and students, and thanks to Google for running this program and providing funding.

New committer: Marko Zec (src)

 15 PC-BSD 7 Released

PC-BSD 7 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 downloaded or purchased on DVD.

New committer: Robert Noland (src)

 13 &os; 6.4-BETA/7.1-BETA Available

The final stage of the &os;-6.4 and &os;-7.1 Release cycle has begun with the first beta releases. The ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most of the &os; mirror sites. We encourage people to test and report any outstanding bugs. Please find more information about these releases on the Release Engineering Information page.

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New committer: Josh Paetzel (ports)

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New committer: Max Brazhnikov (ports)

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Enhanced commit privileges: Stanislav Sedov (src, ports)

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Enhanced commit privileges: Edward Tomasz Napierala (src, ports) SoC2008 alumnus.

 19 April - June, 2008 Status Reports

The April - June, 2008 Status Reports are now available with 14 entries.

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Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Páli (full doc/www)

 7 28 &os; Foundation Requesting Project Proposals

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.

To find out more about the proposal process please read the call.

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New committer: Robert Noland (ports)

New committer: Yvan Vanhullebus (src)

 18 &os; Foundation July 2008 Newsletter

The &os; Foundation has published their Semi-Annual July 2008 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the &os; Project and community.

 17 New &os; Core Team elected

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.

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.

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.

New committer: Philip M. Gollucci (ports)

New committer: Greg Larkin (ports)

 8 iXsystems Announces Professional &os; and PC-BSD Support Offering

A press release announcing the launch of iXsystems' Professional Services Division which will provide Professional Enterprise Grade support, consulting, and development for &os; and PC-BSD.

New committer: Stacey Son (src)

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New committer: Nathan Whitehorn (src)

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New committer: Erik Cederstrand (projects)

 FreeBSD Technologies in Firefox 3

A press release describing FreeBSD technologies used by Mozilla Firefox.

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New committer: Dmitry Marakasov (ports)

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New committer: Ermal Luçi (src)

 10 New committer: <a href="mailto:ivoras@FreeBSD.org">Ivan Voras</a> (src). SoC2005-2007 alumnus.

Ivan Voras is now a src/ committer. He participated in the Google Summer of Code program in 2005, 2006, and 2007.

 3 FreeBSD begins switch to Subversion

The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion. 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.

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 "stable" branches. Security and errata patches will continue to be made available in their usual CVS locations.

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.

Our ports, doc and www trees are not affected at this time. A separate decision will be made regarding those CVS repositories soon.

Many people have contributed to the effort, but we wish to thank Michael Haggerty and the cvs2svn project developers for their assistance with cvs2svn. Peter Wemm spent several weeks of Yahoo!'s time repairing the CVS tree, preparing for and performing the conversion, and the configuration of the Subversion infrastructure. Yahoo! donated the server hardware.

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New committer: Manolis Kiagias (doc/www)

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New committer: Ed Schouten (src)

 14 January - March, 2008 Status Reports

The January - March, 2008 Status Reports are now available with 13 entries.

 4 22 Funded Summer of Code Projects Announced

The FreeBSD Project received over 100 applications for Google's Summer of Code 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.

A complete list of the winning students and projects is available here. A Summer of Code wiki has been created and additional information about the projects will be added there soon.

New committer: Gábor Páli (Hungarian doc/www)

 3 31 Student deadline extended for Summer of Code

The deadline for student applications to participate in the Google Summer of Code has been extended by one week. The new deadline is Monday, April 7, 2008. If you haven't already, please visit our FreeBSD Summer of Code page 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.

 26 Now Accepting Student Applications for Google Summer of Code

The student application period for the Google Summer of Code 2008 program has begun. Please peruse our list of FreeBSD specific projects and potential mentors 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.

 17 Participating in Google Summer of Code

The FreeBSD Project will soon be accepting applications for the Google Summer of Code 2008 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.

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 Google FAQ for more information.

 14 New committer: <a href="mailto:rdivacky@FreeBSD.org">Roman Divacky</a> (src). SoC2006-2007 alumnus.

Roman Divacky 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.

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New committer: Felippe M. Motta (ports)

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New committer: Philippe Audeoud (ports)

 2 27 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is now available. The release errata 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 Release Information page.

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pfSense 1.2 released.

New committer: Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (doc/www)

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New committer: Pietro Cerutti (ports)

 17 October-December, 2007 Status Reports

The October-December, 2007 Status Reports are now available with 25 entries.

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New committer: Oliver Fromme (src)

 12 FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 Available

The second release candidate of FreeBSD 7.0 is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

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New committer: Antoine Brodin (src)

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New committer: Oleksandr Tymoshenko (src)

 18 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the release errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 6.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 17 6 New RSS 2.0 Feeds Available

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 : FreeBSD Project News, FreeBSD In the Media, Upcoming FreeBSD Events, FreeBSD Security Advisories, FreeBSD Java Updates, and FreeBSD GNOME Updates. There is also an RSS 0.91 feed available for FreeBSD KDE Updates.

The new feeds all validate properly and have been tested with popular feed reading software. Please mail freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org if you have any problems with the new feeds.

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DesktopBSD 1.6 is released.

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New committer: Wesley Shields (ports)