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December 2009

  • 20 December, 2009: New committer: Ryusuke SUZUKI (doc/ja_JP, www/ja)

  • 7 December, 2009: New committer: Gavin Atkinson (src)

  • 3 December, 2009: The NVIDIA Corporation releases an initial BETA version of NVIDIA 195.22 FreeBSD graphics drivers for both i386 and amd64 architectures. The drivers support recent versions of the FreeBSD operating system, i.e. 7.2-STABLE and 8.0-RELEASE and provide support for features like SLI, improved compatibility and performance, especially on systems with 4GB or more of RAM. This marks the first driver release for amd64, as it was previously available only for i386 architecture. Please see the original announcement for more information.

November 2009

October 2009

  • 29 October, 2009: New committer: Sylvio Cesar Teixeira (ports)

  • 28 October, 2009: The second of the Release Candidates for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures and a memory stick image for amd64/i386 are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 11 October, 2009: The April-September, 2009 Status Report is now available with 38 entries.

  • 4 October, 2009: New committer: Jaakko Heinonen (src)

September 2009

  • 21 September, 2009: The first of the Release Candidates for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures and a memory stick image for amd64/i386 are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 15 September, 2009: New committer: Wen Heping (ports)

  • 7 September, 2009: The fourth and last of the BETA builds for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures and a memory stick image for amd64/i386 are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

August 2009

  • 24 August, 2009: The third of the BETA builds for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures and a memory stick image for amd64/i386 are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 10 August, 2009: New committer: Dima Panov (ports)

July 2009

  • 20 July, 2009: New committer: Yi-Jheng Lin (ports)

  • 18 July, 2009: The final stage of the FreeBSD-8.0 Release cycle continues with the second public beta release. The FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. As with the first beta release, this is not yet intended for use in a production environment. However we encourage our users to test this release and report any bugs and problems you may have found. For more information about this release and updating details please see the official announcement.

  • 7 July, 2009: The final stage of the FreeBSD-8.0 Release cycle has begun with the first public beta release. The FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available for download on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. We encourage our users to give FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 a try and provide us with the feedback, however please read the official announcement carefully before starting to use this release.

June 2009

  • 8 June, 2009: New committer: Navdeep Parhar (src)

  • 8 June, 2009: New committer: Michael Tuexen (src)

  • 4 June, 2009: Portmgr is happy to announce that two new members will join the team.

    Martin Wilke has been one of our most active committers since receiving his commit bit today 3 years ago. He has been working in a number of subgroups including python, ports-security and the KDE team.

    Ion-Mihai Tetcu has been interested in regression testing and qualitiy assurance, creating QAT automated tinderbox testing of all port commits on a per-commit basis, and adding on-the-fly feedback to the snapshot builds from the pointyhat package cluster.

    Unfortunately, we will also be saying goodbye to Kirill Ponomarew, who hasn't had much time to spend on FreeBSD and will be stepping down from portmgr.

    We thank Kirill for all his contributions in the past and wish Martin and Ion-Mihai the best of luck with the new tasks bestowed upon them.

  • 3 June, 2009: New bugmeister members: Gavin Atkinson, Volker Werth

May 2009

April 2009

  • 24 April, 2009: The second of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 21 April, 2009: All of the technical sessions from the recent DCBSDCon 2009 conference were recorded and are now available in the BSDConferences channel on YouTube. There are now 50 separate videos of technical talks from MeetBSD, NYCBSDCon, AsiaBSDCon, and BSDCan available in the channel.

  • 17 April, 2009: The first of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 12 April, 2009: Enhanced commit privileges: G�bor P�li (ports, doc)

  • 10 April, 2009: PC-BSD 7.1 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 may be downloaded or purchased on DVD.

  • 6 April, 2009: New committer: Rick Macklem (src)

  • 3 April, 2009: The final stage of the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE cycle has begun with the first beta release. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

March 2009

  • 25 March, 2009: New committer: Steven Kreuzer (ports)

  • 22 March, 2009: We are pleased to announce that Google has invited the FreeBSD Project to participate in their Summer of Code 2009 program, which allows students to get paid to work on the FreeBSD source code. We invite students interested in working on FreeBSD to submit their proposals as soon as possible.

    For more information please see the FreeBSD Summer Projects page for recommended project ideas and the official announcement.

  • 16 March, 2009: New committer: Fabien Thomas (src)

  • 12 March, 2009: There are a number of semi-official Twitter streams available now with the latest updates from the FreeBSD Project. The @freebsdannounce stream provides a short summary and link to the full newsflash posts. @freebsdblogs syndicates the FreeBSD developer blogs from Planet FreeBSD. @freebsd syndicates both of the above sources and more. Finally, the new @bsdevents stream includes all the events from our events page plus additional reminders and notices of BSD gatherings.

  • 3 March, 2009: New committer: Dennis Herrmann (ports)

  • 1 March, 2009: New committer: Dmitry Chagin (src)

February 2009

  • 19 February, 2009: New committer: Marcus von Appen (ports)

  • 18 February, 2009: New committer: Andriy Gapon (src)

  • 14 February, 2009: KDE 4.2.0 has been merged into the ports tree. For a detailed list of improvements, please refer to the announcement. For general information about KDE on FreeBSD, please see the KDE on FreeBSD project page.

January 2009

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