FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2025
10 days ago
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- FreeBSD Status Report for Q2 2025 includes 32 entries, highlighting community activity and project updates.
- FreeBSD Core Team is drafting a Project roadmap and investigating a policy on generative AI usage for code and documentation.
- FreeBSD Foundation supported FreeBSD through advocacy, OS improvements, and legal matters, with notable contributions to libvirt's bhyve support and runtime linker improvements.
- FreeBSD Release Engineering Team managed the 14.3-RELEASE and started planning for 15.0-RELEASE, with new OCI Container Images uploads to Docker and GitHub.
- Ports Collection saw updates including new committers, software upgrades like Chromium 137.0.7151.119, and default version changes for Go, Perl, and PostgreSQL.
- Infrastructure Modernization project, funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency, aims to improve security tools, CI/CD automation, and SBOM improvements.
- New projects like Sylve, a system management platform for FreeBSD, and BSD-USER 4 LINUX, enabling FreeBSD binaries to run on Linux, were highlighted.
- Kernel updates included audio stack improvements, DRM drivers from Linux 6.9, and suspend/resume improvements for modern laptops.
- Documentation Engineering Team updated the Handbook and website, added Plausible Analytics, and welcomed new translators on Weblate.
- Chinese FreeBSD Community (CFC) fully translated FreeBSD documentation into Chinese and initiated the FreeBSD-Ask project for Simplified Chinese users.