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13-Mar-2001 + The March issue of The + FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
9-Mar-2000 New committer: Dima Dorfman
7-Mar-2001 New committer: Michael C. Wu
6-Mar-2001 New committer: Thomas Möstl
6-Mar-2001 New committer: Orion Hodson
20-Feb-2001 New committer: Jesper Skriver
16-Feb-2001 The February issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
5-Feb-2001 New committer: Mike Heffner (audit project)
24-Jan-2001 New committer: Jimmy Olgeni (ports)
23-Jan-2001 New committer: Dirk Meyer (ports)
20-Jan-2001 New committer: Ying-chieh Liao (ports)
28-Dec-2000 New committer: FUJISHIMA Satsuki (ports)
6-Dec-2000 New committer: Clive T. Lin
4-Dec-2000 New committers: Christoph Herrmann and Thomas-Henning von Kamptz (growfs)
1-Dec-2000 New committer: Ian Dowse
30-Nov-2000 Individual porting efforts were moved into the platforms directory. Separate pages for the Alpha, IA-64, PowerPC, and SPARC porting projects can be found there.
22-Nov-2000 FreeBSD 4.2 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 issues with 4.2 that occur.
22-Nov-2000 And yet another new committer: Peter Pentchev (ports)
13-Nov-2000 Yet another new committer: OKAZAKI Tetsurou (ports)
13-Nov-2000 Another new committer: Kazuhiko Kiriyama (ports)
13-Nov-2000 New committer: Dmitry Sivachenko (Mainly ports)
12-Nov-2000 Another new committer: Issei Suzuki (Ports)
06-Nov-2000 Another new committer: Jing-Tang Keith Jang (ports, mostly in the chinese category)
02-Nov-2000 Another new committer: Benno Rice (PowerPC port and OpenFirmware /boot/loader)
26-Oct-2000 Yet another new committer: Doug Barton (mergemaster, and whatever other trouble I can get into)
26-Oct-2000 A new committer: Garance A Drosehn (lpr and friends)
18-Oct-2000 New FreeBSD Core Team Elected! Read the official press release for more information.
16-Oct-2000 A new committer: Jonathan Chen (newcard cardbus)
3-Oct-2000 The complete track schedule for BSDCon has been released. BSDCon is the premiere annual technical conference for BSD users and will be held from October 14-20 in Monterey, CA.
2-Oct-2000 Doug Rabson has made a series of commits to -CURRENT with early IA64 support. The kernel will now reach the mountroot prompt. Please follow the ia64 mailing list for more information.
1-Oct-2000 A new committer: Trevor Johnson (sundry ports, mostly in the audio category)
1-Oct-2000 A new committer: James Housley (ports, especially RTEMS. Side interest in IPv6)
1-Oct-2000 A new committer: Mário Sérgio Fujikawa Ferreira
29-Sep-2000 TeraSolutions, Inc. and Lightning Internet Services announced today that a popular OpenSource software archive at ftp.freesoftware.com (also known as ftp.FreeBSD.org) has surpassed the two trillion bytes (two terabytes) milestone of files downloaded per day from a single server machine.
27-Sep-2000 FreeBSD 4.1.1 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 issues with 4.1.1 that occur.
21-Sep-2000 A new committer: Bosko Milekic
22-Aug-2000 A new committer: Bruce A. Mah (docs, pkg_version, assorted ports)
15-Aug-2000 A new committer: Rajesh Vaidheeswarran (ports/devel/cons)
5-Aug-2000 A new committer: Atsushi Onoe (awi driver)
27-July-2000 FreeBSD 4.1 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 issues with 4.1 that occur.
12-July-2000 A new committer: Mark Ovens
11-July-2000 A new committer: Kelly Yancey
11-July-2000 A new committer: David Malone
11-July-2000 A new committer: Noriaki Mitsunaga (PC-Card)
10-July-2000 A new committer: Ben Smithurst (Docs)
8-July-2000 A new committer: Daniel Harris (Docs)
7-July-2000 A new committer: Takanori Watanabe (ACPI)
6-July-2000 A new committer: Hiroki Sato (Japanese Docs)
5-July-2000 A new committer: Kazuo Horikawa (Japanese Online Manuals)
3-July-2000 A new committer: Adrian Chadd
30-June-2000 http://freshports.org/ has been upgraded to FreshPorts 1.1. The FreshPorts website contains the latest details of which ports have been create/updated/removed. This upgrade, the first since FreshPorts was release in early May, gives you an improved home page, which together with a commit history means you can find out about your ports faster and easier.
29-June-2000 Tucows has added a BSD section.
26-June-2000 A new committer: Shunsuke Akiyama (Optical disk driver)
24-June-2000 FreeBSD 3.5 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 issues with 3.5 that occur.
20-June-2000
A new committer: MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro (PC-Card)
A new committer: Coleman Kane (3dfx voodoo for glide/Mesa)
19-June-2000 A new committer: CHOI Junho (Ports)
08-June-2000 Jordan Hubbard and Warner Losh will be in Japan during the first part of June 2000. They will be giving talks at: the BSD BOF at Networld+Interop 2000 Tokyo (8th), the JUS seminor at Tokyo (9th), the NBUG event at Nagoya (10th), and, the K*BUG seminor at Osaka (10th). Please see http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/.
A new article is available, explaining how to use PPP, natd, and ipfw to implement a firewall with a PPP dialup connection.
A new committer: Alexander Langer (Ports, Docs)
06-Jun-2000 The first FreeBSD Conspectus has been added, providing a summary of events on the -stable mailing list over the past week.
19-May-2000 A new committer: Chuck Paterson (SMP)
18-May-2000 A hardcopy version of the FreeBSD Handbook is now available. If you would like to order a copy, please visit the FreeBSDMall, or BSDi's web site.
15-May-2000 A new committer: Jake Burkholder (legacy drivers)
14-May-2000 Issue #04 of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
09-May-2000 Freshports: Similar in nature to Freshmeat, this site deals exclusively with FreeBSD ports, and allows you to create your own ``watch lists'' for your favorite ports.
16-Apr-2000 New mailing lists available: freebsd-i18n (FreeBSD Internationalization) and freebsd-ppc (Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC)
04-Apr-2000 A new committer: Murray Stokely (sysinstall)
22-Mar-2000 A new committer: Akinori MUSHA (Ports)
21-Mar-2000 Bill Swingle has written an article on the Ports and Packages System for 32bitsonline.com
20-Mar-2000 A new committer: Will Andrews (Ports)
15-Mar-2000 Issue #2 of The FreeBSD 'zine is now available.
13-Mar-2000 FreeBSD 4.0 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 issues with 4.0 that occur.
09-Mar-2000 Walnut Creek CDROM and BSDI merge! Read the official press release for more information.
26-Feb-2000 A new committer: Hajimu UMEMOTO (IPv6)
23-Feb-2000 A new committer: Paul Saab
22-Feb-2000 32BitsOnline.com has a review of FreeBSD 3.4 by Clifford Smith available on their web site. All in all, a good review.
18-Feb-2000 A new committer: Brian S Dean (Kernel support for IA32 hardware debug registers, misc fixes/feature enhancements in other areas)
17-Feb-2000 A new issue of The FreeBSD 'zine came out on the 15th. This is the first issue of the 'zine in 7 months; lots of changes have been made, and many new features have been added. Be sure to check it out.
10-Feb-2000 Michael Lucas has written an excellent article on the differences between the BSD license and the GPL. This article is definitely worth reading.
New committers: Greg Sutter and Bill Swingle (Docs)
22-Jan-2000 The FreeBSD Diary, a chronicle of what one guy is doing with FreeBSD, has been around for almost two years. Until today, it was tucked away in a corner of his site. Following significant growth, a new-look site was launched today. The site contains a huge number of how-to guides and the readership includes NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux users.
13-Jan-2000 A new committer: Wilko Bulte
04-Jan-2000 The Compaq Testdrive program is now making testdrives available of the the latest FreeBSD 4.0-20000101-CURRENT release running on an Alpha XP1000 EV6.7. running at 667MHz and loaded with two gigs of ram. To get a free shell account as a participant in the testdrive program, all you need to do is register at the site. These accounts aren't for playing, the goal of the program is to make brand new systems available to developers so they can test, build and port their apps to the world's fastest computer. The testdrive program also offers other systems running FreeBSD, including a Proliant 5500 dual Xeon 450MHz and a DPW500a.
03-Jan-2000 A new committer: Patrick Gardella (JDK/WWW)
02-Jan-2000 A new committer: Ade Lovett (Ports)
01-Jan-2000 A new committer: Jeremy Lea (Ports)
30-Dec-1999 A new committer: Gerard Roudier (Symbios SCSI driver)
20-Dec-1999 FreeBSD 3.4 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 issues with 3.4 that occur.
18-Dec-1999 A new committer: Robert Watson (Coda, POSIX.1e ACLs/Capabilities/Auditing/MAC, FFS extended attributes, Jail code improvements/documentation, IPFW/BPF cleanup)
16-Dec-1999 Remove a committer: James Raynard, "I have decided to resign as a committer as it's been a very long time since I last had the time to work on FreeBSD and things have now got to the point where not even "speed reading" can help me keep up with the commit mail." Our thanks to James for the time and effort he has contributed to FreeBSD.
A new committer: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (Docs, in particular mdoc, low-level interfaces, and other source tree related documentation)
15-Dec-1999 A new committer: Chris D. Faulhaber
14-Dec-1999 A new committer: Neil Blakey-Milner (Docs)
24-Oct-1999 The FreeBSD Con '99 event this year was a big success! Over 350 people attended, and both the vendors and attendees alike said they found the event to be both entertaining and valuable. Many thanks to Walnut Creek CDROM for producing this event and to Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick for teaching two kernel internals tutorials and giving his History of BSD talk at the conference.
10-Oct-1999 A new committer: Josef Karthauser
27-Sep-1999 A new committer: Yukihiro Nakai (Ports)
26-Sep-1999 A new committer: Dan Moschuk (Ports)
17-Sep-1999 FreeBSD 3.3 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 issues with 3.3 that occur.
08-Sep-1999 New committers: Boris Popov (Netware) and Wilfredo Sanchez (FreeBSD/Apple Darwin collaboration)
05-Sep-1999 A new committer: Jose M. Alcaide (Docs/Spanish translation)
03-Sep-1999 New committers: R. Imura (Ports/KDE), Andrey Zakhvatov (Docs/Russian translation) and Sebastien Gioria (Docs/French translation)
02-Sep-1999 A new committer: Alexey Zelkin (Localization/Docs/Russian translation)
23-Aug-1999 A new committer: John Baldwin (Docs)
11-Aug-1999 New committers: Alfred Perlstein (SMP) and Jim Mock (Docs)
10-Aug-1999 C-Forge, an Integrated Development Environment, has been released (beta) for FreeBSD, supporting C, C++, Perl, Tcl, and many other languages.
06-Aug-1999 A new committer: Chris Costello (Docs)
04-Aug-1999 A new committer: Peter Holm (Docs)
29-Jul-1999 New committers: Yoshinobu Inoue and Munechika Sumikawa (KAME/IPv6)
27-Jul-1999 A new committer: Matthew N. Dodd (EISA/PCI/newbus)
14-Jul-1999 A new committer: Seigo Tanimura (MIDI)
07-Jul-1999 A new committer: Cameron Grant (PCM)
03-Jul-1999 A new committer: Marcel Moolenaar (Linux compat)
01-Jul-1999 New committers: Takahashi Yoshihiro (PC98) and Masahide MAEKAWA
30-Jun-1999 New committers: Larry Lile (Token Ring), Daniel Baker (Ports), and Daniel Eischen
19-Jun-1999 A new committer: Chris Piazza
18-Jun-1999 A new committer: Mitsuru IWASAKI
17-Jun-1999 A new committer: Brian Feldman
14-Jun-1999 A new committer: Sheldon Hearn
10-Jun-1999 FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE CDs are shipping. Subscribers who did not make any special shipping arrangements should be receiving their CDs soon. Anyone who wishes to order 3.2-RELEASE or to subscribe may do so via The FreeBSD Mall.
08-Jun-1999 A new Australian FreeBSD Web Mirror now exists. Thanks to ITworks Consulting for providing the host.
28-May-1999 A new committer: Kevin Lo
27-May-1999 A new committer: Ruslan Ermilov
26-May-1999 A new committer: Mark J. Taylor
18-May-1999 FreeBSD 3.2 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 issues with 3.2 that you might need to be aware of.
30-Apr-1999 A new committer: Tom Hukins (Docs)
22-Apr-1999 The FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer is now available (in the tutorials section) for people who want to learn the technical details of the Documentation Project.
15-Apr-1999 A new committer: Richard Seaman
13-Apr-1999 A new committer: Michael Haro
30-Mar-1999 A new committer: Nick Sayer
10-Mar-1999 A new committer: Jason Evans
05-Mar-1999 The USENIX Association has announced the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, scheduled for 06-11 June 1999 in Monterey, CA, USA. Our own Jordan Hubbard is chairing the FREENIX Track, devoted to open source software's latest developments and interesting applications.
02-Mar-1999 A new committer: Satoshi TAOKA (Ports)
01-Mar-1999 A secure server has been set up to accept monetary donations to the FreeBSD Project. For more information, see: http://www.freebsdmall.com/donate/.
01-Mar-1999 FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE CDs are now shipping. Subscribers should receive their CDs soon. See http://www.cdrom.com/ to order.
25-Feb-1999 A new committer: Shigeyuki FUKUSHIMA
23-Feb-1999 A new committer: Alan Cox (VM)
19-Feb-1999 A new committer: Kris Kennaway
17-Feb-1999 The Gartner Group has released a report, Divorcing Thin Server Software from the Hardware, examining the trend in the OEM market of using software and hardware from different vendors.
15-Feb-1999 FreeBSD 3.1 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 issues with 3.1 that you might need to be aware of.
04-Feb-1999 The FreeBSD Diary, a collection of how-to entries aimed at Unix novices, is now available.
03-Feb-1999 A new committer: Daniel Sobral (Bootloader)
21-Jan-1999 A new committer: Roger Hardiman (bt8x8 driver)
20-Jan-1999 3.0-STABLE has now departed the -CURRENT branch. The next release on this branch will be 3.1-RELEASE, in mid-February 1999.
15-Jan-1999 A new committer: Andrew Gallatin (Alpha)
13-Jan-1999 The FreeBSD ezine is a monthly collection of easy to read (we hope) articles written by FreeBSD users and administrators just like you.
10-Jan-99 Jordan Hubbard's "State of the Union", a look back at 1998, and a look forward to the future.
02-Jan-1999 A new committer: Hidetoshi Shimokawa (Alpha/Ports)
28-Dec-98 Unless circumstances dictate otherwise, FreeBSD 3.0 will depart the -CURRENT branch late in the day on 15 January 1999. The 3.1 release will follow 30 days later, on 15 February 1999. Developers should consider this as ADVANCE NOTICE of these events.
13-Dec-98 Walnut Creek CDROM has opened the FreeBSD Mall, a site devoted to the commercial aspects of FreeBSD, including add-ons, hardware, and commercial tech-support. To advertise or sell your products or services at the FreeBSD Mall, contact BSDi.
30-Nov-98 FreeBSD 2.2.8 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 issues with 2.2.8 that you might need to be aware of.
26-Nov-98 FreeBSD Rocks is an initiative designed to provide the FreeBSD community with the latest FreeBSD news, software and resources. All areas include search facilities, making keyword searching of historical posts a breeze. The pages are updated daily and everyone is invited to sign up an post an article. If it happened today, you'll see it on FreeBSDRocks.
15-Oct-98 FreeBSD 3.0 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 3.0 that you might need to be aware of.
15-Sep-98 September 15th is the scheduled date for entering BETA with the 3.0-CURRENT tree. As all of you already (should) know, 3.0 is scheduled for release on October 15th so this gives us a nice 30 day BETA period. During this time, I don't expect anyone to drop in significant new work or otherwise perturb the 3.0-CURRENT tree in such a way that violates the general idea of a BETA (you're supposed to test what you have, not move the goalposts every couple of days :).
13-Sep-98 After more than a year of development, the Common Access Method SCSI layer for FreeBSD will be integrated into 3.0-CURRENT on Sunday, September 13th. The CAM development team is currently busy ensuring that the integration process goes as smoothly as possible, so please understand that we may be slow to respond to questions about CAM during that time.
09-Sep-98 Perl5 is now imported into the 3.0-CURRENT source tree.
05-Sep-98 The BSD CD Giveaway List. If somebody has a CD to give away (recipient pays for shipping) or to lend locally, they can put their email address on the list. Hardware and literature can also be given away. We encourage people to donate CDs to local libraries and put them on the list as well.
01-Sep-98 First issue of Daemon News arrives day earlier. This ezine is by the BSD community for the BSD community. See http://www.daemonnews.org/
31-Aug-98 FreeBSD -CURRENT branch (the future 3.0-RELEASE) has switched to ELF from a.out format. People involved did a great job; transition went smooth. Check the freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org mail archive for more information on the transition to ELF.
23-Aug-98 Suidcontrol-0.1 utility has been released. The suidcontrol is an experimental utility for managing suid/sgid policy under FreeBSD. You can get more information at http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/suidcontrol.html
09-Aug-98 FreeBSD Security How-To has been published. This work is currently in beta and can be found at http://www.best.com/~jkb/howto.txt
22-Jul-98 FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.7 that you should know about.
16-Jul-98 A ``FreeBSD for Linux users'' documentation effort has started. Please see the list of current documentation projects for more information.
13-Jul-98 Jordan Hubbard writes an editorial on the past and future of the Unix community.
09-Jul-98 A Spanish translation of the FAQ has been completed by the Spanish Documentation Project. More information can be found at the translations page.
30-May-98 FreeBSD and Apache are used in this very useful article on implementing a web farm using round-robin DNS in WEBTechniques.com.
23-May-98 The second issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter is now available in Adobe PDF format (also by FTP). A help file is available to assist you in selecting and using a PDF viewer. Article submissions, advertisements, and letters to the editor should be sent to newsletter@FreeBSD.org.
01-May-98 The FreeBSD Project set up Anonymous CVS for the FreeBSD CVS tree. Among other things, it allows users of FreeBSD to perform, with no special privileges, read-only CVS operations against one of the FreeBSD project's official anoncvs servers.
16-Apr-98 The new 4 CD set of FreeBSD 2.2.6 is now in stock and should start shipping to subscription and back-order customers tomorrow. More information on the CD contents are available from http://www.cdrom.com/.
11-Apr-98 The new FreeBSD project FreeBSD Mozilla Group is created. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group supports and improves the free available Netscape web browser, otherwise known as Mozilla.
25-Mar-98 FreeBSD 2.2.6 has been released. See the Release Information page for details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 2.2.6 that you should know about.
08-Feb-98 A page detailing the FreeBSD Year 2000 compliance statement is now available, linked through the Documentation page.
08-Jan-98 Improved support for Plug-n-Play cards has now been integrated into both 3.0-CURRENT and 2.2-STABLE branches now. This is available in source form via the CVSup utility or in binary release snapshots from current.FreeBSD.org
Previous announcements for 1997 and 1996 are also available.
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