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infrastructure)
□ Replication for end consumers of FreeBSD
□ How does our release engineering work, and which of the various teams
are impacted.
□ Currently too much knowledge depends on tribal memory, need to
collect,
sort and documented.
□ An artifact of the STA work is that release documentation is written
(next to the releng article in doc repository). Some corner cases are
currently missing.
• Committer GECOS fields and pseudonyms
□ A question came from a developer about whether pseudonyms can be used
as committer names.
□ There is a higher concern about how to deal with any copyright
issues.
□ Core however does not feel that using pseudonyms is endorsed as it
makes paperwork and restoring cluster access more difficult, and
suggests mentioning the advantages of using real names.
□ Another way pseudonyms could cause problems is when the identity is
shared, e.g. in case of a vendor commit bit, who will be the
spokesperson?
• AI policy
□ The Core Team is in the process of drafting a policy on using AI and
LLMs.
□ For this effort, it also plans to consult with other groups, such as
the Foundation’s legal counsel and people in the Linux and other open
source communities who are working on related topics.
□ There are various questions about copyright, guaranteeing code
provenance, best practices and "common sense" by both developers and
external contributors, and what can and cannot be done with AI
(assisted) tools.
□ There have been many follow-up discussions after BSDCan and
EuroBSDCon,
and core is organizing and summarizing them.
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FreeBSD Foundation
Links:
FreeBSD Foundation URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/
Technology Roadmap URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/
Donate URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
Foundation Partnership Program URL:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/freebsd-foundation-part
ership-program/
FreeBSD Journal URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/journal/
Foundation Events URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/events/
Contact: Deb Goodkin
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to advancing FreeBSD
through both technical and non-technical support. Funded entirely by donations,
the Foundation supports software development, infrastructure, security, and
collaboration efforts; organizes events and developer summits; provides
educational resources; and represents the FreeBSD Project in legal matters.
OS Improvements
Throughout the quarter, there were 451 src, 71 ports, and 25 doc commits
sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation.
Refer to the following report entries describing much of that committed
development work:
• Suspend/Resume Improvements
• LinuxKPI 802.11 and Native Wireless Update
• Audio Stack Improvements
• Improve OpenJDK on FreeBSD
• Sylve — A Unified System Management Platform for FreeBSD
• Support for Installing pkgbase Systems
• DRM drivers
• Alpha-Omega Beach Cleaning Project
• Improve libvirt Support for bhyve Hypervisor
• STA Work Package C: CI/CD Automation
• USB Kernel Debugging Improvements
• DRM Drivers Slowdowns and Freezes Fixes
• Process Credentials' Groups-Related Changes in FreeBSD 15
Other highlights include:
• Improved virtual memory scalability, allowing multiple processes to load
shared libraries in parallel.
• Greater UFS reliability on very large filesystems (with more than 2
billion
inodes).
• Support for systems with over 4 TB of RAM, including a reworked Kernel
Virtual Address (KVA) layout tailored for the 57-bit address space (LA57)
architecture.
• Kqueue inheritance across fork().
• A new safeguard (noshutdown) to help prevent accidental system shutdown.
• Simplified and more reliable filesystem rename operations.
• A fix for amd64 pmap panics under low-memory conditions.
• Numerous fixes for race conditions in timeout handling.
• A new EXTERROR(9) interface, standardizing how external applications can
report detailed error information.
The Foundation also continued to support two major initiatives: the Laptop
Support and Usability project (in collaboration with Quantum Leap Research) and
an infrastructure modernization project commissioned by the Sovereign Tech
Agency. For background on both efforts, see the 2025Q1 quarterly status report.
FreeBSD, under the management of the Foundation, participated in its 21st
consecutive Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. All twelve projects were
successfully completed.
Four of those GSoC participants contributed report entries:
• ACPI Lua Bindings
• Sockstat UI Improvements
• Geomman Release
• mac_do(4) and mdo(1) Improvements
Advocacy
Advocacy work in the 3rd quarter of 2025 included representing FreeBSD at open
source events, producing more technical tutorials and working on the upcoming
November 2025 FreeBSD Vendor Summit. Take a look at just a few of the ways the
Foundation helped advocate for FreeBSD in Q3 of 2025:
• Sponsored and attended EuroBSDcon 2025, held in Zagreb, Croatia;
September
25-28, 2025.
• Members of the Foundation team presented at the Open Source Summit,
Europe,
August 25-27, 2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Planning continued for the November 2025 FreeBSD Vendor Summit, taking
place November 6-7, 2025 in San Jose, CA. Registration is open and the
schedule is available.
• Published the following blogs and videos to help to inform and educate
the
community:
□ How To Install and Configure the Galene Video Meeting Server
□ An Introduction to FreeBSD’s Periodic System
□ BSDCan 2025 trip reports:
☆ Mark Johnston
☆ Chuck Tuffli
□ From Minecraft to Markets: Java Hiding in Plain Sight
□ FreeBSD Jails are Simple and Easy
• Published the June/July 2025 and August 2025 FreeBSD Foundation
Newsletters.
• Released the April/May/June 2025 issue of the FreeBSD Journal with HTML
versions of the articles.
Continuous Integration and Workflow Improvement
The Foundation supports a full-time staff member dedicated to improving the
Project’s continuous integration system and test infrastructure.
Legal/FreeBSD IP
The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our responsibility to
protect them. We also provide legal support for the core team to investigate
questions that arise.
Go to https://freebsdfoundation.org to find more about how we support FreeBSD
and how we can help you!
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