FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - First Quarter 2021
Introduction This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between January and March, and is the first of four planned reports for 2021. The first quarter of 2021 has been very active in both FreeBSD-CURRENT and -STABLE, with 13.0-RELEASE work starting in January and finishing up mid-April. It provides lots of new features, and there’s even a good chance that some workloads will experience performance improvements. The number of entries is slightly down, and this is probably due to a combination of factors like code slush as well as the ongoing issues with COVID-19, but we naturally hope that things will look up next quarter. This combined with a switch-over to AsciiDoctor and a decision to make full use of the status report work schedule to avoid stress, means that the report can now be expected to come out at the end of the first month after the quarter has finished, rather than in the middle. This report in particular includes a number of interesting entries, covering everything from the linuxulator, various mitigation work, long-awaited work on OpenBSM, work on kernel sanitizers, and many more things that it is hoped you will enjoy reading about. Yours, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, with a status hat on. ━━━ Table of Contents • FreeBSD Team Reports □ FreeBSD Foundation □ FreeBSD Release Engineering Team □ Cluster Administration Team □ Continuous Integration □ Ports Collection • Projects □ Git Migration Working Group □ LLDB Debugger Improvements □ Linux compatibility layer update □ Vulnerability Mitigations □ OpenBSM Synchronisation • Kernel □ ENA FreeBSD Driver Update □ Intel wireless update □ Kernel Sanitizers □ Marvell ARM64 SoCs support □ nv(9)-based audio device enumeration • Ports □ KDE on FreeBSD □ FreeBSD Office team 2021Q1 status report □ VirtualBox FreeBSD port • Documentation □ DOCNG on FreeBSD □ FreeBSD Translations on Weblate □ WebApps working group • Miscellaneous □ Discord Server & Community Growth • Third-Party Projects □ CBSD Project □ helloSystem □ PkgBase.live □ Potluck & Potman □ sysctl improvements ━━━ FreeBSD Team Reports Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, as found in the Administration Page. FreeBSD Foundation Contact: Deb Goodkin The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations and is used to fund and manage software development projects, conferences and developer summits, and provide travel grants to FreeBSD contributors. The Foundation purchases and supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure and provides resources to improve security, quality assurance, and release engineering efforts; publishes marketing material to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD Project; facilitates collaboration between commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal entity. Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: COVID-19 Impact to the Foundation Like most organizations, our team continued to work from home. Our temporary ban on travel for staff members remains in effect, but continues to not affect our output too much, since most conferences are still virtual. We continued supporting the community and Project, even though some of our work and responses may have been delayed because of changes in some of our priorities and the impact of limited childcare for a few of our staff members. Partnerships and Commercial User Support We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their needs and bring that information back to the Project. Not surprisingly, the stay at home orders, combined with our company ban on travel during Q1 made in-person meetings non-existent. However, the team was able to continue meeting with our partners and commercial users virtually. These meetings help us understand some of the applications where FreeBSD is used. We were thrilled for the opportunity to work with AMD early on to ensure FreeBSD worked on their recently released third generation EPYC series. You can read more about that here: https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/ latest-news/freebsd-well-prepared-for-amd-epyc-7003-series-processors/. Fundraising Efforts First, we’d like to say thank you to everyone who has given us a financial contribution this year! Last quarter we raised $88,237, which includes donati
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - Fourth Quarter 2020
FreeBSD Project Quarterly Status Report - Fourth Quarter 2020 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between October and December, and is the fourth of four planned reports for 2020. This quarter had quite a lot of work done, including but certainly not limited to, in areas relating to everything from multiple architectures such as x86, aarch64, riscv, and ppc64 for both base and ports, over kernel changes such as vectored aio, routing lookups and multipathing, an alternative random(4) implementation, zstd integration for kernel dumps, log compression, zfs and preparations for pkg(8), along with wifi changes, changes to the toolchain like the new elfctl utility, and all the way to big changes like the git migration and moving the documentation from DocBook to Hugo/AsciiDoctor, as well as many other things too numerous to mention in an introduction. This report with 42 entries, which don't hold the answer to life, the universe and everything, couldn't have happened without all the people doing the work also writing an entry for the report, so the quarterly team would like to thank them, as otherwise, we wouldn't have anything to do. Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period between January and March is March 31st. We hope you'll enjoy reading as much as we enjoyed compiling it. Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, on behalf of the quarterly team. __ FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Foundation * FreeBSD Release Engineering Team * Cluster Administration Team * Continuous Integration * Ports Collection * Office Hours Projects * GPL in Base * Git Migration Working Group * Linux compatibility layer update * LLDB Debugger Improvements * Upstreaming NetApp Changes * NFS over TLS implementation * OpenBSM Synchronisation * Tool Chain Kernel * ENA FreeBSD Driver Update * Intel wireless update * Fenestras X random(4) * pf performance improvement * IP Routing lookup improvements * Scalable routing multipath support * Thunderbolt3/USB4 stack * Vectored AIO * ZSTD Compression in ZFS Architectures * arm64 platform updatesq * FreeBSD/RISC-V Project Userland Programs * Dual-stack ping command Ports * KDE on FreeBSD * FreeBSD Office team * Ports On Non-x86 Architectures * Python 2.7 removal from Ports * Xfce on FreeBSD Documentation * FreeBSD Translations on Weblate * DOCNG on FreeBSD Miscellaneous * Prometheus NFS Exporter Third-Party Projects * FreeBSD Aarch64 under VMWare ESXi-ARM Fling * Bastille * CheriBSD * Embedded Lab Project * helloSystem * K8S-bhyve * Puppet __ FreeBSD Team Reports Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, as found in the Administration Page. FreeBSD Foundation Contact: Deb Goodkin The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations and is used to fund and manage software development projects, conferences and developer summits, and provide travel grants to FreeBSD contributors. The Foundation purchases and supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure and provides resources to improve security, quality assurance, and release engineering efforts; publishes marketing material to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD Project; facilitates collaboration between commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal entity. Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: COVID-19 Impact to the Foundation Like most organizations, we transitioned all of our staff to work from home. We also put a temporary ban on travel for staff members, which didn't affect our output too much, since most conferences went virtual. We continued supporting the community and Project, even though some of our work and responses may have been delayed because of changes in some of our priorities and the impact of limited childcare for a few of our staff members. Partnerships and Commercial User Support We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their needs and bring that information back to the Project. Not surprisingly, the stay at home orders, combined with our company ban on travel during Q4 made in-person meetings non-existent. However
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - Third Quarter 2020
FreeBSD Project Quarterly Status Report - Third Quarter 2020 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between July and September, and is the third of four planned reports for 2020. This quarter brings a good mix of additions and changes to the FreeBSD Project and community, from a diverse number of teams and people covering everything from architectures, continuous integration, wireless networking and drivers, over drm, desktop and third-party project work, as well as several team reports, along with many other interesting subjects too numerous to mention. As the world is still affected by the epidemic, we hope that this report can also serve as a good reminder that there is good work that can be done by people working together, even if we're apart. We hope you'll be as interested in reading it, as we've been in making it. Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, on behalf of the quarterly team. __ FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Foundation * FreeBSD Release Engineering Team * Cluster Administration Team * Continuous Integration * Ports Collection * FreeBSD Office team - 3rd quarter 2020 report * FreeBSD Graphics Team status report Projects * FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure * Building FreeBSD on non-FreeBSD hosts * Git Migration Working Group * Linux compatibility layer update * LLDB Debugger Improvements * Lua usage in FreeBSD * NFS over TLS implementation * syzkaller on FreeBSD Kernel * DRM Drivers Update * DTS Update * DesignWare Ethernet adapter driver improvements * Google Summer of Code'20 Project - eBPF XDP Hooks * ENA FreeBSD Driver Update * IPSec Extended Sequence Number (ESN) support * NXP ARM64 SoC support * Addition of PowerPC64LE Architecture * ure - USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Driver update * Stateless hardware offloads for VXLANs * Wireless updates * ZSTD Compression in ZFS Architectures * CheriBSD 2020 Q3 * FreeBSD/RISC-V Project Ports * Update to grub-bhyve * KDE on FreeBSD Documentation * DOCNG on FreeBSD Third-Party Projects * Potluck - Flavour & Image Repository for pot __ FreeBSD Team Reports Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, as found in the Administration Page. FreeBSD Foundation Contact: Deb Goodkin The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations and is used to fund and manage software development projects, conferences and developer summits, and provide travel grants to FreeBSD contributors. The Foundation purchases and supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure and provides resources to improve security, quality assurance, and release engineering efforts; publishes marketing material to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD Project; facilitates collaboration between commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal entity. Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: COVID-19 Impact to the Foundation Like other organizations, we put policies in place for all of our staff members to work from home. We also put a temporary ban on travel for staff members. We are continuing our work supporting the community and Project, but some of our work and responses may be delayed because of changes in some of our priorities and the impact of limited childcare for a few of our staff members. Partnerships and Commercial User Support We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their needs and bring that information back to the Project. Not surprisingly, the stay at home orders, combined with our company ban on travel during Q3 made in-person meetings non-existent. However, the team was able to continue meeting with our partners and commercial users virtually. These meetings help us understand some of the applications where FreeBSD is used. We are currently scheduling Zoom company meetings for Q4, please reach out if you would like to schedule a meeting with us. Fundraising Efforts Last quarter we raised $192,874.43! Thank you to the individuals and organizations that stepped in, to help fund our efforts. We'd like to thank Arm for their large contribution last quarter, which helped bring our 2020 fundraising effort to $521k. We hope other organizations will fo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - Second Quarter 2020
FreeBSD Project Quarterly Status Report - Second Quarter 2020 Introduction This report will be covering FreeBSD related projects between April and June, and covers a diverse set of topics ranging from kernel updates over userland and ports, as well to third-party work. Some hilights picked with the roll of a d100 include, but are not limited to, the ability to forcibly unmounting UFS when the underlying media becomes inaccessible, added preliminary support for Bluetooth Low Energy, a introduction to the FreeBSD Office Hours, and a repository of software collections called potluck to be installed with the pot utility, as well as many many more things. As a little treat, readers can also get a rare report from the quarterly team. Finally, on behalf of the quarterly team, I would like to extend my deepest appreciation and thank you to salvadore@, who decided to take down his shingle. His contributions not just the quarterly reports themselves, but also the surrounding tooling to many-fold ease the work, are immeassurable. We hope you find the report as interesting as we have, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen (debdrup@), on behalf of the quarterly team. __ FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Foundation * FreeBSD Core Team * FreeBSD Release Engineering Team * Cluster Administration Team * Continuous Integration * Ports Collection * FreeBSD Office Hours * Quarterly Status Reports Team Projects * FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure * Git Migration Working Group * Lua Usage in FreeBSD * Linux compatibility layer update * NFS over TLS implementation Kernel * SoC audio framework and more audio drivers * bhyve - NVMe emulation improvements * Bluetooth Support * DRM Drivers Update * DTS Update * ENA FreeBSD Driver Update * Forcible Unmount of UFS/FFS Filesystems on Disk Failure * i.MX 8M support * Intel wireless and 11ac update * amd64 5-Level Paging Structures support * Not-transparent superpages * NXP ARM64 SoC support * amd64 pmap Fine-grained pv lists locking * Lockless routing lookups and scalable multipath * ZSTD Compression in ZFS * CheriBSD 2020 Q2 Architectures * Continuous Integration on !x86 * FreeBSD/RISC-V Project Userland Programs * Import of new implementation of bc and dc * Binutils Retirement * Run-Time Dynamic Linker improvements * VHDX support in mkimg(1) Ports * Bastille * KDE on FreeBSD * Haskell on FreeBSD * rtsx - Porting driver for Realtek SD card reader from OpenBSD * Valgrind updates Documentation * FreeBSD Translations on Weblate Miscellaneous * FreshPorts * PCI passthrough with bhyve on Intel and for OpenBSD guests * SageMath Third-Party Projects * chaifi - a tool to simplify joining public WiFi networks * MixerTUI * Potluck - Flavour & Image Repository for pot __ FreeBSD Team Reports Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, as found in the Administration Page. FreeBSD Foundation Contact: Deb Goodkin The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations and is used to fund and manage software development projects, conferences and developer summits, and provide travel grants to FreeBSD contributors. The Foundation purchases and supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure and provides resources to improve security, quality assurance, and release engineering efforts; publishes marketing material to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD Project; facilitates collaboration between commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal entity. Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter: COVID-19 Impact to the Foundation Like other organizations, we put policies in place for all of our staff members to work from home. We also put a temporary ban on travel for staff members. We are continuing our work supporting the community and Project, but some of our work and responses may be delayed because of changes in some of our priorities and the impact of limited childcare for a few of our staff members. Partnerships and Commercial User Support We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their needs and bring that information back to the Project. Not surprisi
