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May 2009

April 2009

  • 24 April: 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: 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: 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: Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Páli (ports, doc)

  • 10 April: 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: New committer: Rick Macklem (src)

  • 3 April: 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: New committer: Steven Kreuzer (ports)

  • 22 March: 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: New committer: Fabien Thomas (src)

  • 12 March: 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: New committer: Dennis Herrmann (ports)

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

February 2009

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

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

  • 14 February: 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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