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FreeBSD News Flash

FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system. Keeping up on the latest developments can be a chore! To keep on top of things, be sure and check this page periodically. Also, you may wish to subscribe to the freebsd-announce mailing list or the RSS feed.

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For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases, see the Release Information page.

For FreeBSD Security Advisories, please refer to the Security Information page.

April 2010

• 1 April: New committer: Royce Williams (docs)

March 2010

• 31 March: New committer: Bernhard Fröhlich (ports)

• 23 March: FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

• 18 March: The FreeBSD Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Thomas Abthorpe has assumed the role of Ports Management Team Secretary.

• 7 March: Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports)

• 4 March: The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD-7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

• 3 March: New committer: Neel Natu (src)

February 2010

• 22 February: PC-BSD 8.0 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 can be downloaded or purchased on DVD.

• 15 February: The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD-7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

• 12 February: Enhanced commit privileges: Benedict Reuschling (full doc/www)

• 6 February: New committer: Bernhard Schmidt (src)

• 2 February: Gábor Kövesdán participated in Google Summer of Code 2008/2009 and for his work he has been given commit access to the source code. His first pieces of work will be bringing in the result of his summer work into the tree.

January 2010

• 30 January: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD-7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

• 29 January: New committer: Bruce Cran (src)

• 28 January: New committer: Ulrich Spörlein (src)

• 26 January: New committer: Romain Tartière (ports)

• 26 January: New committer: Alberto Villa (ports)

• 17 January: The October-December, 2009 Status Report is now available with 38 entries.

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