Index: head/share/xml/news.xml =================================================================== --- head/share/xml/news.xml (revision 50012) +++ head/share/xml/news.xml (revision 50013) @@ -1,5052 +1,5082 @@ $FreeBSD$ 2017 2 + 27 + + FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of + Code 2017 + +

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its + participation in Google's 2017 Summer of Code program, + which funds summer students to participate in open source + projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's thirteenth year + in the program, having mentored over 200 successful + students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 + and 2016.

+ +

Past successful projects have included improvements to + Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, + FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. + Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well + as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the + world through continuing support from the FreeBSD + Foundation.

+ +

Prospective participants are invited to apply; more + information is available, including proposal and deadline + information, on the FreeBSD + Summer Projects page.

+ + + + 13 October-December 2016 Status Report

The October to December 2016 Status Report is now available.

 10

New committer: Mahdi Mokhtari (ports)

 8

New committer: Tobias Kortkamp (ports)

 1 10

Enhanced commit privileges: Jean-Sébastien Pédron (ports)

 9

New committer: Matthew Rezny (ports)

New committer: Larry Rosenman (ports)

New committer: Johannes Dieterich (ports)

 2016 12 11

New committer: Piotr Paweł Stefaniak (src)

New committer: Nikolai Lifanov (ports)

 11 15

New committer: Mikhail Pchelin (ports)

 13 July-September 2016 Status Report

The July to September 2016 Status Report is now available.

 2

New committer: Konrad Witaszczyk (src)

 10 22

New committer: David Bright (src)

 10 &os; 11.0-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 11.0-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 11.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 9 16

New committer: Sevan Janiyan (doc)

 28 &os; 11.0-RELEASE Status Update

The final 11.0-RELEASE is going to be rebuilt in order to address a few last-minute items that were discovered after the release tag. Please see the official announcement from the Release Engineering team for more information.

 17

New committer: Ruey-Cherng Yu (doc)

New committer: Joseph Mingrone (ports)

 &os; 11.0-RC3 Available

The third RC build for the &os; 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 8 25 &os; 11.0-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os; 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 13 &os; 11.0-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os; 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 10

New committer: Toomas Soome (src)

The FreeBSD Core Team has released a statement about the recent freebsd-update and related vulnerabilities.

 6 &os; 11.0-BETA4 Available

The fourth BETA build for the &os; 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 7 30 &os; 11.0-BETA3 Available

The third BETA build for the &os; 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 27 April-June 2016 Status Report

The April to June 2016 Status Report is now available.

 24 &os; 11.0-BETA2 Available

The second BETA build for the &os; 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Michael Zhilin (src)

New committer: Imre Vadasz (src)

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New committer: Stephen J. Kiernan (src)

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New committer: Carlos J. Puga Medina (ports)

 10 &os; 11.0-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os; 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 6 New &os; Core Team elected

The &os; Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2016 Core Team election. The &os; Core Team acts as the project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc ...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by &os; developers every two years since 2000.

The &os; Core Team is glad to announce that Matthew Seaman will continue the role of Core Team Secretary.

More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement.

New committer: Tobias C. Berner (ports)

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New committer: Eric Badger (src)

 6 9

New committer: Mike Karels (src)

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New committer: Torsten Zuehlsdorff (ports)

 5 31

New committer: Landon Fuller (src)

 9

New committer: Ben Woods (ports)

 1 January-March 2016 Status Report

The January to March 2016 Status Report is now available.

 4 23

New committer: Emmanuel Vadot (src)

 4 &os; 10.3-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 10.3-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 10.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 3 20 &os; 10.3-RC3 Available

The third Release Candidate build for the &os; 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 13 &os; 10.3-RC2 Available

The second Release Candidate build for the &os; 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 5 &os; 10.3-RC1 Available

The first Release Candidate build for the &os; 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 1

New committer: Christoph Moench-Tegeder (ports)

 FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2016

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2016 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's twelfth year in the program, having mentored over 180 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2015.

Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation.

Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

 2 28

New committer: Phil Shafer (src)

 &os; 10.3-BETA3 Available

The third BETA build for the &os; 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 24

New committer: Jared McNeill (src)

New committer: Stanislav Galabov (src)

 17 &os; and glibc (CVE-2015-7547)

Dag-Erling Smørgrav posts some information about &os; and the recent glibc CVE-2015-7547 vulnerability.

 Analysis of &os; Kernel by PVS-Studio

The development team of the PVS-Studio static code analyzer checked the &os; kernel and published an article describing the most suspicious fragments.

 14 &os; 10.3-BETA2 Available

The second BETA build for the &os; 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 6 &os; 10.3-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os; 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 2

New committer: Olivier Cochard-Labbé (ports)

 1 October–December Status Report

The October–December, 2015 Status Report is now available.

 1 18

New committer: Wojciech Macek (src)

 6 &os; Foundation Statement on Harassment

The &os; Foundation has released its initial statement about harassment in the &os; community.

 3

The &os; Core team has released an Initial Statement about harassment in the &os; Community

 2015 12 13

New committer: Anish Gupta (src)

 11 1

New committer: Michal Meloun (src)

 10 26

New committer: Jonathan T. Looney (src)

 25 July–September Status Report

The July–September, 2015 Status Report is now available.

 23

New committer: Svatopluk Kraus (src)

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New committer: Kurt Lidl (src)

 9 24

New committer: Andriy Voskoboinyk (src)

 8 13 &os; 10.2-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 10.2-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 10.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 8

Enhanced commit privileges: Marcelo Araujo (ports, src)

 7 &os; 10.2-RC3 Available

The third RC build for the &os; 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 1 &os; 10.2-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os; 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 7 30

Enhanced commit privileges: Allan Jude (src)

 27

New committer: Jason Unovitch (ports)

 26 April–June, 2015 Status Report

The April–June, 2015 Status Report is now available.

 24 &os; 10.2-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os; 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 17 &os; 10.2-BETA2 Available

The second BETA build for the &os; 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 11 &os; 10.2-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os; 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 5

New committer: Conrad Meyer (src)

 6 26 Leap Seconds and &os; Article

A new article, &os; Support for Leap Seconds, gives a quick overview of leap second handling. The next leap second will occur at 2015-Jun-30 23:59:60 UTC.

 5 24

New committer: Bernard Spil (ports)

 4 30 January–March, 2015 Status Report

The January–March, 2015 Status Report is now available.

 27

New committer: Mariusz Zaborski (src)

 21

New committer: Michael Moll (ports)

 2

Enhanced commit privileges: Mathieu Arnold (ports, doc)

 3 31

New committer: Matthew Ahrens (src)

 22

New committer: Kristof Provost (src)

 8

New committer: Eric van Gyzen (src)

New committer: Jason Harmening (src)

 2 11

New committer: Wei Hu (src)

 1 19

New committer: Jan Beich (ports)

 15 October–December, 2014 Status Report

The October–December, 2014 Status Report is now available.

 2014 12 14

New committer: Muhammad Moinur Rahman (ports)

New committer: Eric Joyner (src)

 11 14 &os; 10.1-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 10.1-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 10.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 02 &os; 10.1-RC4 Available

The fourth RC build for the &os; 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 &os; turns 21 today!

&os; 1.0, the first official production-ready release of &os; was announced 21 years ago today, on November 2nd, 1993. See the original announcement here.

 10 23 &os; 10.1-RC3 Available

The third RC build for the &os; 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

New committer: Björn Heidotting (doc)

 14 July–September, 2014 Status Report

The July–September, 2014 Status Report is now available.

 13 &os; 10.1-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os; 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 12

New committer: Andrew Rybchenko (src)

 4 &os; 10.1-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os; 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 9 28 &os; 10.1-BETA3 Available

The third BETA build for the &os; 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 24

New committer: Julien Charbon (src)

 21 &os; 10.1-BETA2 Available

The second BETA build for the &os; 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 14 &os; 10.1-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os; 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 9

New committer: Dominic Fandrey (ports)

 8 21 FreeBSD ports tree was born twenty years ago, let's celebrate!

It all started with this commit from Jordan Hubbard on August 21, 1994:

"Commit my new ports make macros. Still not 100% complete yet by any means but fairly usable at this stage."

A video was prepared to celebrate the event!

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New committer: Alonso Schaich (ports)

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New committer: Dan Langille (ports)

 7 31 The &os; Foundation Semi-Annual Newsletter is Now Available

We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2014 Semi-Annual Newsletter! This is a chance for you to read about what we are doing to help make &os; the best operating system available.

Read about funded development projects to improve &os;, sponsored conferences, developer and vendor summits to create face-to-face opportunities, research, how we are doing on our fundraising efforts, and so much more!

The 2014 semi-annual newsletter is available online here.

 27

New committer: Ngie Cooper (src)

 24 April-June, 2014 Status Report

The April-June, 2014 Status Report is now available with 24 entries.

 16 FreeBSD 9.2 EoL pushed back

To facilitate the upgrade process from &os; 9.1 and 9.2 to &os; 9.3, the EoL date for &os; 9.2 has been pushed back to December 31, 2014.

 &os; 9.3-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 9.3-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 9.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 9 New Core Team Secretary: <a href="mailto:matthew@FreeBSD.org">Matthew Seaman</a>

The &os; Core Team is glad to announce that Matthew Seaman has assumed the role of Core Team Secretary.

 New &os; Core Team elected

The &os; Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2014 Core Team election. The &os; Core Team acts as the project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc ...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by &os; developers every two years since 2000.

More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement.

 6 &os; 9.3-RC3 Available

The third RC build for the &os;-9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 4 Temporary WITH_NEW_XORG repositories available for &os; 9 and 10

For people needing WITH_NEW_XORG, an alternate pkg(8) repository is now online. It contains a subset of packages affected by this knob. Please see the announce mail for more details.

 6 28 &os; 9.3-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os;-9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 21 &os; 9.3-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os;-9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Bartek Rutkowski (ports)

 14 &os; 9.3-BETA3 Available

The third BETA build for the &os;-9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Stephen Hurd (ports)

 7 &os; 9.3-BETA2 Available

The second BETA build for the &os;-9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 1 &os; 9.3-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os;-9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 5 29

New committer: Patrick Kelsey (src)

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New committer: Allan Jude (doc)

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New committer: Kashyap Desai (src)

New committer: Stephen McConnell (src)

 4 24

New committer: Kurt Jaeger (ports)

 17 January-March, 2014 Status Report

The January-March, 2014 Status Report is now available with 41 entries.

 7

New committer: Johannes Jost Meixner (ports)

 3 11 FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2014

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2014 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's tenth year in the program, having mentored over 160 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2013.

Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation.

Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

 2 10 &os; Journal First Edition Available

We are pleased to announce the availability of the &os; Journal! It is the new online Journal, that the &os; Foundation is publishing, that is all about &os;. Click here to find out how to get the first issue that is focused on &os; 10.

 1 25 October-December, 2013 Status Report

The October-December, 2013 Status Report is now available with 37 entries.

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New committer: Rodrigo Osorio (ports)

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New committer: Tycho Nightingale (src)

New committer: Michael Gmelin (ports)

 20 &os; 10.0-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 10.0-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 10.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

Enhanced commit privileges: Jason Helfman (ports, doc)

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Enhanced commit privileges: Steven Kreuzer (ports, doc)

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Returning committer: Bruce A. Mah (ports)

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New committer: Thomas Zander (ports)

 9 &os; 10.0-RC5 Available

The fifth RC build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 2 &os; 10.0-RC4 Available

The fourth RC build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 2013 12 26 &os; 10.0-RC3 Available

The third RC build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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Enhanced commit privileges: Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (doc, src)

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New committer: Jonathan Chu (ports)

Enhanced commit privileges: Bryan Drewery (ports, src)

 &os; 10.0-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 9 &os; 10.0-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 EuroBSDcon 2013 Developer Summit Report

A special status report on the EuroBSDcon 2013 &os; Developer Summit is now available with 13 entries.

 3 &os; 10.0-BETA4 Available

The fourth BETA build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 11 27

New committer: Roger Pau Monné (src)

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New committer: Alexey Degtyarev (ports)

 5 &os; 10.0-BETA3 Available

The third BETA build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Julio Merino (src)

 10 30 Official Binary Packages for Pkg Available

Official binary packages are now available for Pkg for &os; 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0 and head. See the announcement for more information.

 28 &os; 10.0-BETA2 Available

The second BETA build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 20 July-September, 2013 Status Report

The July-September, 2013 Status Report is now available with 30 entries.

 14 &os; 10.0-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Eric Davis (src)

 7 &os; 10.0-ALPHA5 Available

The fifth ALPHA build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 9 30 &os; 9.2-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 29 &os; 10.0-ALPHA4 Available

The fourth ALPHA build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Danilo Egêa Gondolfo (ports)

 18 &os; 10.0-ALPHA2 Available

The second ALPHA build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 13 &os; 10.0-ALPHA1 Available

The first ALPHA build for the &os;-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 12 &os; 9.2-RC4 Available

The fourth RC build for the &os;-9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Ruslan Bukin (src)

New committer: Zbigniew Bodek (src)

 8 26 &os; 9.2-RC3 Available

The third RC build for the &os;-9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 16 &os; 9.2-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os;-9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 6 The &os; Foundation Semi-Annual Newsletter is Now Available

We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2013 Semi-Annual Newsletter! This is a chance for you to read about what we are doing to help make &os; the best operating system available.

Read about funded development projects to improve &os;, sponsored conferences, developer and vendor summits to create face-to-face opportunities, research, how we are doing on our fundraising efforts, and so much more!

The 2013 semi-annual newsletter is available online here.

 5 &os; 9.2-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os;-9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 7 31

New committer: Rusmir Dusko (ports)

 29 &os; 9.2-BETA2 Available

The second BETA build for the &os;-9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 22 &os; 9.2-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os;-9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and ia64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 16 April-June, 2013 Status Report

The April-June, 2013 Status Report is now available with 33 entries.

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New committer: John Marino (ports)

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New committer: Luiz Otavio O Souza (src)

 2 BSDCan 2013 DevSummit Report

A special status report on the results of the BSDCan 2013 &os; Developer Summit is now available with 6 entries.

 6 25

New committer: Mark Felder (ports)

 19 Happy Birthday &os;!

&os; celebrated its 20th birthday today. On June 19, 1993, Jordan Hubbard, Rod Grimes, and David Greenman announced to the world the creation of their new fork of the BSD 4.3 operating system.

&os; was derived from the 386BSD 0.1 release from Bill and Lynne Jolitz with its 1.0 release in Nov 1993. Its stated goals were to create a fast, stable, reliable server OS for i386 systems.

Since then, it has become the backbone of countless products and has grown to supporting 64bit computing, embedded devices, and desktop users.

 11

New committer: Veniamin Gvozdikov (ports)

 7 &os; 8.4-RELEASE Available

&os; 8.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes (detailed version) and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 8.4. More information about &os; releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 4

Enhanced commit privileges: Glen Barber (doc, ports, src)

 5 27

Enhanced commit privileges: Chris Rees (doc, ports)

 14 Binary Packages Are Available Again

Six months have passed since the November security incident which brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are pleased to announce that all services are now restored.

Read the official announcement here.

 12 January-March 2013 Status Report

The January to March 2013 Status Report is now available with 31 entries.

 9 &os; Foundation Announces Ed Maste as New Director of Project Development

The &os; Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste's new role as the Foundation's part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation's board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position.

Read more...

 8 &os; 8.4-RC3 Available

The third RC build for the &os;-8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 4 29 New &os; Foundation Technical Staff Member: Edward Tomasz Napierała

The &os; Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierała has joined as its second member of technical staff. This is a continuation of the Foundation's plan to invest in staff in 2013.

Read more...

 24

New committer: Alan Somers (src)

 FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2013 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's ninth year in the program, having mentored over 150 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2012.

Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation.

Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

 22 &os; 8.4-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os;-8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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Enhanced commit privileges: Cy Schubert (src, ports)

 12

New committer: Hiren Panchasara (src)

 10 &os; 8.4-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os;-8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

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Enhanced commit privileges: Antoine Brodin (src, ports)

 1

New committer: William Grzybowski (ports)

 3 27

Enhanced commit privileges: Tijl Coosemans (src, ports)

 22 &os; 8.4-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os;-8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 14 New &os; Foundation Technical Staff Member: Konstantin Belousov

The &os; Foundation is pleased to announce that Konstantin Belousov has been hired as its first full-time member of technical staff, a key milestone of the Foundation's investment in staff for 2013.

Read more...

 12

New member for the Ports Management team: Bryan Drewery

 3 October-December 2012 Status Report

The October to December 2012 Status Report is now available with 27 entries.

 July-September 2012 Status Report

The July to September 2012 Status Report is now available with 12 entries.

 2 10

New committer: Po-Chien Lin (ports)

 1

New committer: Thomas-Martin Seck (ports)

 1 23

New committer: Achim Leubner (src)

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New committer: Dru Lavigne (doc)

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New committer: Carl Delsey (src)

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Enhanced commit privileges: René Ladan (ports, full doc/www)

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New committer: David Naylor (ports)

 13 April-June, 2012 Status Report

The April-June, 2012 Status Report is now available with 17 entries.

 10 Ports CVS End of Life on February 28th 2013

The development of &os; ports is done in Subversion nowadays. By February 28th 2013, the &os; ports tree will no longer be exported to CVS. Therefore ports tree updates via CVS, CVSup or csup(1) will no longer be available after that date. All users who use CVS, CVSup or csup(1) to update the ports tree are encouraged to switch to portsnap(8) or for users which need more control over their ports collection checkout, use Subversion directly. More information are available in the announcement mail on the &os; ports announce mailing list.

A migration guide from CVSup or csup(1) to portsnap(8) is also available in the &os; Handbook.

 8 Faces of &os; ‐ Thomas Abthorpe

We are excited to share our next story for our Faces of &os; Series. This is a chance for us to spotlight different people who contribute to &os; and have received funding from us to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for &os;.

Let us introduce you to Thomas Abthorpe. We helped him attend BSDCan 2009, 2011, and 2012 by helping with his travel expenses. Read his story here.

 7

New committer: Ian Lepore (src)

 2012 12 31 &os; 9.1-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes (detailed version) and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 24

New committer: Kubilay Kocak (ports)

 20 The &os; Foundation End-of-Year Newsletter is Now Available.

We are pleased to announce the publication of The &os; Foundation's 2012 End-of-Year Newsletter.

 18

New committer: Mark Johnston (src)

 PC-BSD 9.1 is Released

The PC-BSD Team announces the availablilty of PC-BSD 9.1.

New committer: Steven Hartland (src)

 17 Faces of &os; ‐ Dan Langille

We are excited to share our next story for our Faces of &os; Series. This is a chance for us to spotlight different people who contribute to &os; and have received funding from us to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for &os;.

Let us introduce you to Dan Langille. We helped him by sponsoring BSDCan since 2006. Read his story here.

 12 Stunning News Website Fundraising Contribution: Over 650 new donations raise $43,200 in three days!

Astute readers of our blog know that The &os; Foundation's annual year-end fundraising drive began last week. Every year over 50% of our donations arrive during this campaign. Read more...

 10 Faces of &os; ‐ Alberto Mijares

Are you aware of the tangible benefits derived from our support of the &os; community? In conjunction with our year-end fundraising drive we are going to be spotlighting different people on our website, blog, and Facebook page who have received funding to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for &os;. Read more...

 5 &os; Year-End Fundraising Campaign

Your donations have helped make &os; the best OS available! By investing in The &os; Foundation you have helped us keep &os; a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system.

Thanks to people like you, the &os; Foundation has been proudly supporting the &os; Project and community for 12 years now. Read more...

 &os; Project Website is Using Google Analytics

The &os; Project has enabled Google Analytics to collect anonymised statistics on web site use. More information can be found in the official announcement.

 11 26

New committer: Takuya ASADA (src)

 25

New committer: Barbara Guida (ports)

 17 Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure

On Sunday 11th of November, an intrusion was detected on two machines within the FreeBSD.org cluster. We have found no evidence of any modifications that would put any end user at risk. However, we do urge all users to read the report available at https://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html and decide on any required actions themselves.

 5

New committer: Bryan Venteicher (src)

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New committer: Grzegorz Blach (ports)

 3 &os; 9.1-RC3 Available

The third RC build for the &os;-9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, sparc64, and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 10 24

Enhanced commit privileges: Erwin Lansing (src, ports)

 23

New committer: Simon J. Gerraty (src)

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Enhanced commit privileges: Eitan Adler (src, ports, doc)

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New member for the Ports Management team: Bernhard Fröhlich.

 10 &os; 9.1-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os;-9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 9 15

New committer: Peter Jeremy (src)

 13

New committer: Edson Brandi (doc/pt_BR, www/pt_BR)

 10

New committer: Jason E. Hale (ports)

 8 23 &os; 9.1-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os;-9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 21

New committer: Andrey Zonov (src)

 1

New committer: Bryan Drewery (ports)

 7 24 New Core Team Secretary: <a href="mailto:pgj@FreeBSD.org">Gábor Páli</a>

The &os; Core Team is glad to announce that Gábor Páli has assumed the role of Core Team Secretary.

 16 &os; 9.1-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os;-9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 11 New &os; Core Team elected

The &os; Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2012 Core Team election. The &os; Core Team acts as the project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc ...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by &os; developers every two years since 2000.

More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement.

 3

New committer: Niclas Zeising (doc/www, ports)

 6 19

Enhanced commit privileges: Glen Barber (doc, ports)

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New committer: Mateusz Guzik (src)

 5 30

New committer: Jase Thew (ports)

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New committer: Olivier Duchateau (ports)

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New committer: Tom Judge (ports)

 12 January-March, 2012 Status Report

The January-March, 2012 Status Report is now available with 27 entries.

 4 26

New committer: Isabell Long (doc/www)

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New committer: Jeremie Le Hen (src)

 18 &os; 8.3-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 8.3-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 8.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

New committer: Devin Teske (src)

 15

New committer: Armin Pirkovitsch (ports)

13

New committer: Monthadar Al Jaberi (src)

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New committer: Guido Falsi (ports)

 2 &os; 8.3-RC2 Available

The second release candidate build for the &os;-8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 3 23

New committer: Cherry G. Mathew (src)

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New committer: Benjamin Kaduk (doc/www)

 6 &os; 8.3-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os;-8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 01

New committer: Alex Kozlov (ports)

 2 20 &os; 8.3-BETA1 Available

The first test build for the &os;-8.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures are available on most of our &os; mirror sites.

 16

New committer: Damjan Marion (src)

New committer: Ben Gray (src)

 14

Enhanced commit privileges: Sergey Kandaurov (src, doc)

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New committer: Matthew Seaman (ports)

 1 27

New committer: Davide Italiano (src)

 October-December, 2011 Status Report

The October-December, 2011 Status Report is now available with 32 entries.

 12 &os; 9.0-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 9.0-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 9.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 2011 12 16

New committer: Jason Helfman (ports)

 9 &os; 9.0-RC3 Available

The third (and probably last) RC build for the &os;-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our &os; mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility.

 8

New committer: Pedro Giffuni (src)

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New member for the Ports Management team: Beat Gätzi

 11 30

New committer: Justin Hibbits (src)

 17 &os; 9.0-RC2 Available

The second RC build for the &os;-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our &os; mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility.

 12

New committer: Michael Scheidell (ports)

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New committer: David Chisnall (src)

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New committer: Ruslan Makhmatkhanov (ports)

 8 July-September, 2011 Status Report

The July-September, 2011 Status Report is now available with 28 entries.

 10 23 &os; 9.0-RC1 Available

The first RC build for the &os;-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our &os; mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility.

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New committer: Alexander V. Chernikov (src)

 9 28 &os; 9.0-BETA3 Available

The third BETA build for the &os;-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our &os; mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems.

 27

New committer: Jakub Klama (src)

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New committer: Gleb Kurtsou (src)

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New committer: Robert Millan (src)

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New committer: Warren Block (doc/www)

 April-June, 2011 Status Report

The April-June, 2011 Status Report is now available with 36 entries.

 13

New committer: Carlo Strub (ports)

 7 &os; 9.0-BETA2 Available

The second BETA build for the &os;-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our &os; mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems.

 8 22

New committer: Raphael Kubo da Costa (ports)

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New committer: Eitan Adler (ports)

 9 &os; Foundation August 2011 Newsletter

The &os; Foundation has published their first Semi-Annual 2011 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the &os; Project and community.

 1 &os; 9.0-BETA1 Available

The first test build for the &os;-9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our &os; mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems.

 7 17

Enhanced commit privileges: Gavin Atkinson (src, doc)

 15

New committer: Ryan Steinmetz (ports)

 6 14

New committer: Grzegorz Bernacki (src)

 13

New committer: Stephen Montgomery-Smith (ports)

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New committer: Chris Rees (ports)

 6 IPv6-only &os; test images

&os; Foundation and iXsystems announce IPv6-only test images of FreeBSD and PC-BSD.

New committer: Julien Laffaye (ports)

 5 25

New committer: Aleksandr Rybalko (src)

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New committer: Ben Laurie (src)

 12 New Port Manager

The Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Baptiste Daroussin as a new member.

 4 27 January-March, 2011 Status Report

The January-March, 2011 Status Report is now available with 34 entries.

 3 29

New committer: Artem Belevich (src)

 27 FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of Code 2011

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation In Google's 2011 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's seventh year in the program, having mentored over 100 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2010.

Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation.

Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

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New committer: Sofian Brabez (ports)

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New committer: Pawel Pekala (ports)

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The FreeBSD Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Thomas Abthorpe as a full voting member.

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New committer: Steven G. Kargl (src)

 2 24 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 8.2-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 8.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 7.4-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 7.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

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Enhanced commit privileges: Martin Wilke (src, ports, doc)

 3 &os; 7.4/8.2-RC3 Available

The third (and probably last) Release Candidate builds for the &os;-7.4/8.2 release cycles are now available. For 8.2-RC3 the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures are available. For 7.4-RC3 the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available. ISO images for these architectures can be downloaded from most of the &os; mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about these releases.

 1 25 October-December, 2010 Status Report

The October-December, 2010 Status Report is now available with 37 entries.

 23 &os; 7.4-RC2 Available

The second Release Candidate build for the &os;-7.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the &os; mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release.

 16 &os; 8.2-RC2 Available

The second Release Candidate build for the &os;-8.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the &os; mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release.

 2010 12 27 &os; 7.4/8.2-RC1 Available

The first Release Candidate builds for the &os;-7.4/8.2 release cycles are now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the &os; mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about these releases.

 16 &os; Foundation December 2010 Newsletter

The &os; Foundation has published their End-of-Year newsletter which summarizes what they have done in 2010 to help the &os; Project and community.

 11 &os; 7.4/8.2-BETA1 Available

The first of the test builds for the &os;-7.4/8.2 release cycles is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Florian Smeets (ports)

 11 15

New committer: Eygene Ryabinkin (ports)

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New committer: Zack Kirsch (src)

 10 27 July-September, 2010 Status Report

The July-September, 2010 Status Report is now available with 55 entries.

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New committer: Frederic Culot (ports)

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New committer: Jonathan Anderson (src)

 5

New committer: Sergey Kandaurov (src)

 9 25

New committer: Ganael Laplanche (ports)

 21

New committer: Po-Chuan Hsieh (ports)

 5

New committer: Andreas Tobler (src)

 3

New committer: Steve Wills (ports)

 8 31

New committer: Glen Barber (full doc/www)

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New committer: Dimitry Andric (src)

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New committer: Oliver Hauer (ports)

 7 27 &os; Foundation July 2010 Newsletter

The &os; Foundation has published their Semi-Annual July 2010 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the &os; Project and community.

New committer: Baptiste Daroussin (ports)

 23 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 8.1-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 8.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 22 April-June, 2010 Status Report

The April-June, 2010 Status Report is now available with 47 entries.

 21

New committer: Andrew Turner (src)

 20 PC-BSD 8.1 Released

PC-BSD 8.1 has 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. A list of new features/updates since the last version can be found here.

The new release can be downloaded or purchased on DVD.

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New committer: Tijl Coosemans (src)

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New committer: Joseph S. Atkinson (ports)

 14 New &os; Core Team elected

The &os; Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2010 Core Team election. The &os; Core Team acts as the project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc ...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by &os; developers every 2 years since 2000.

More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement.

 2 &os; 8.1-RC2 available

The second (and most likely final) Release Candidate build for the &os;-8.1 release cycle is now available. CD ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures can be downloaded from most of the &os; mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release.

 6 18 &os; 8.1-RC1 Available

The first Release Candidate build for the &os;-8.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the &os; mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release.

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New committer: Ashish SHUKLA (ports)

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New committer: Brendan Fabeny (ports)

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New committer: Matthew Fleming (src)

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New committer: Andrey V. Elsukov (src)

New committer: Taras Korenko (doc/ru, www/ru)

 5 29 &os; 8.1-BETA1 Available

The first of the test builds for the &os;-8.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

 24 Google Summer of Code Projects started

The FreeBSD Project again received many high quality applications from students participating in Google's Summer of Code program. This year 18 student proposals to work with the FreeBSD Project were accepted as part of this program. For those with projects that were not accepted this year, we'd like to note that the FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students so they can learn more about operating system development through our normal community mailing lists and development forums.

Please read the official announcement for more information. The complete list of student projects selected for funding can be found in the FreeBSD Summer of Code wiki. Coding started on May 24, so please join us in welcoming the 18 new students to our community.

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New committer: Jayachandran C. (src)

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Enhanced commit privileges: Martin Matuška (src, ports)

 22 January-March, 2010 Status Report

The January-March, 2010 Status Report is now available with 46 entries.

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New committer: Randi Harper (src)

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New committer: Ryan Stone (src)

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New committer: Ana Kukec (src)

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Enhanced commit privileges: René Ladan (doc-nl, ports)

New committer: Sahil Tandon (ports)

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New committer: Giuseppe Pilichi (ports)

 4 The &os; Project Participates in the Google Summer of Code 2010 Program

&os; Project is participating in Google's Summer of Code programme for a sixth year. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for a grant to spend the summer improving the &os; operating system! More information available on the &os; Summer of code page, including a poster to hang up at a university near you!

 3 31

New committer: Bernhard Fröhlich (ports)

 23 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 7.3-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 7.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

 18 New Ports Management Team Secretary: <a href="mailto:tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org">Thomas Abthorpe</a>

The &os; Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Thomas Abthorpe has assumed the role of Ports Management Team Secretary.

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Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports)

 4 &os; 7.3-RC2 Available

The second Release Candidate build for the &os;-7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Neel Natu (src)

 2 22 PC-BSD 8.0 Released

PC-BSD 8.0 has 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. A list of new features/updates since the last version can be found here.

The new release can be downloaded or purchased on DVD.

 15 &os; 7.3-RC1 Available

The first Release Candidate build for the &os;-7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

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Enhanced commit privileges: Benedict Reuschling (full doc/www)

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New committer: Bernhard Schmidt (src)

 2 Enhanced commit privileges: <a href="mailto:gabor@FreeBSD.org">Gábor Kövesdán</a> (src, ports, doc)

Gábor Kövesdán participated in Google Summer of Code 2008/2009 and for his work he has been given commit access to the source code. His first pieces of work will be bringing in the result of his summer work into the tree.

 1 30 &os; 7.3-BETA1 Available

The first BETA build for the &os;-7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Bruce Cran (src)

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New committer: Ulrich Spörlein (src)

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New committer: Romain Tartière (ports)

New committer: Alberto Villa (ports)

 17 October-December, 2009 Status Report

The October-December, 2009 Status Report is now available with 38 entries.