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FreeBSD Status Report March-April 2004
2004 continues on with wonderful progress. Work continues on locking down the network stack, ACPI made more great strides, an ARM port appeared in the tree, and the FreeBSD 4.10 release cycle wrapped up. Once 4.10 is released, the next big focus will be FreeBSD 5.3. We expect this is be the start of the 5-STABLE branch, meaning that not only will it be stable for production use, it will also be largely feature complete and stable from an internal API standpoint. We expect to release 5.3 in mid-summer, and we encourage everyone to download the latest snapshots from for a preview.
  • ACPI
  • ATA project Status Report
  • Automatic sizing of TCP send buffers
  • Binary security updates for FreeBSD
  • Book: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
  • CAM lockdown and threading
  • Convert ipfw2 to use PFIL_HOOKS mechanism
  • Cronyx Tau-ISA driver
  • FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project
  • FreeBSD threading support
  • FreeBSDrm
  • GEOM Gate
  • Improved Multibyte/Wide Character Support
  • libarchive/bsdtar
  • Move ARP out of routing table
  • Network interface naming changes
  • Network Stack Locking
  • OpenOffice.org porting status
  • PCI Powerstates and Resource
  • Porting OpenBSD's packet filter
  • SMPng Status Report
  • Status Report
  • Sync protocols (Netgraph and SPPP)
  • The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project
  • TrustedBSD Audit
  • TrustedBSD Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
  • TrustedBSD Security-Enhanced BSD (SEBSD) port
  • Verify source reachability option for ipfw2
    • Original URL: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-mar-2...
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