From: debdrup@FreeBSD.org
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.
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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
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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 Q2 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.
Fundraising Efforts
Last quarter we raised $268,400! Thank you to the individuals and
organizations that stepped in to help fund our efforts. We'd like to
thank Netflix, employees of Nginx, Beckhoff Automation, and Mozilla
Foundation for their large contributions last quarter, which helped
bring our 2020 fundraising effort to $339k. We hope other organizations
will follow their lead and give back to help us continue supporting
FreeBSD.
These are trying times, and we deeply appreciate every donation that
has come in from $5 to $150,000. We're still here giving 110% to
supporting FreeBSD!
We are 100% funded by donations, and those funds go towards software
development work to improve FreeBSD, FreeBSD advocacy around the world,
keeping FreeBSD secure, continuous integration improvements, sponsoring
BSD-related and computing conferences (even the virtual events!), legal
support for the Project, and many other areas.
Please consider making a donation to help us continue and increase our
support for FreeBSD.
We also have the Partnership Program, to provide more benefits for our
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