25 November, 2002: The September-October status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
23 November, 2002: BSD Conference Japan 2002 was held in Tokyo on November 23rd, 2002. During the conference FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD folks in Japan got together to discuss various topics of mutual interest. In addition, Apple Computer, Inc. gave us excellent lectures about Mac OS X and Rendezvous. Matsui Securities Co.,Ltd, Yahoo Japan Corporation, and SRS SAKURA Internet Inc. gave case studies of how FreeBSD is used in their production environments. Brains Corporation gave a talk on mmEye, which is equipped with 32bit RISC CPU SH-3 and runs NetBSD.The event report published by Mainichi Communications inc., can be found at MYCOM PCWEB (but sorry, Japanese only). There were 172 attendees at the conference. We are pleased with this turnout, considering that this was the first attempt to hold such an event in Japan.
18 November, 2002: The second developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is now available. Please see the release notes, errata, and the new Early Adopter's Guide for more information.
7 November, 2002: nVidia releases Geforce drivers for FreeBSD! Check out the README for more information.
1 November, 2002: New committer: Stéphane Legrand (Documentation Project)
31 October, 2002: Opera is natively ported to FreeBSD! Read the official press release for more information.
22 October, 2002: New committer: Edwin Groothuis (Ports)
18 October, 2002: New committer: Tilman Linneweh (Ports)
18 October, 2002: New committer: Daichi GOTO (Ports)
18 October, 2002: New committer: Maho Nakata (Ports)
16 October, 2002: New committer: Adam Weinberger (Ports)
11 October, 2002: New committer: Olivier Houchard
10 October, 2002: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.7.
9 October, 2002: New committer: Eric Moore
4 October, 2002: New committer: Martin Heinen (Documentation Project)
3 October, 2002: The July-August status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
10 September, 2002: New committer: Peter Grehan (PowerPC)
2 September, 2002: Notes from the USENIX ATC 2002 FreeBSD Developer Summit are now available.
1 September, 2002: The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.7. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the release engineering team first. Our expected "ship" date for 4.7 is October 1, 2002.
1 September, 2002: New committer: David Xu (KSE)
21 August, 2002: New committer: Oliver Braun (Ports)
20 August, 2002: New committer: Thomas Quinot
15 August, 2002: The May-June 2002 status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
15 August, 2002: FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.6.2.
15 August, 2002: New committer: Sean Chittenden (Ports)
14 August, 2002: New committer: Yen-Ming Lee (Ports)
8 August, 2002: New committer: Jennifer Jihui Yang
7 August, 2002: New committer: Nate Lawson
1 August, 2002: The Open Group has generously donated several copies of the Authorized Guide to The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3, books and CD-ROMs to the FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project. We are greatly appreciative of their gift.
19 July, 2002: New committer: Alexander Kabaev
1 July, 2002: New committer: Johan Karlsson
25 June, 2002: New committer: Hye-Shik Chang (Ports)
18 June, 2002: New committer: Ville Skyttä (projects/cvsweb)
16 June, 2002: New committer: Marc Fonvieille (Documentation Project)
15 June, 2002: FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 4.6.
12 June, 2002: New committer: Alan Eldridge (Ports)
23 May, 2002: The FreeBSD PR Handling Guidelines provide recommended practices for working with FreeBSD problem reports.
18 May, 2002: The February-April status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
16 May, 2002: New committer: Gordon Tetlow
7 May, 2002: New committer: Tony Finch
1 May, 2002: The FreeBSD-STABLE branch of the source tree has now been frozen in preparation for the release of FreeBSD 4.6. This means that any new commits to the -stable source tree must be approved by the release engineering team first. Our expected "ship" date for 4.6 is June 1, 2002.
29 April, 2002: New committer: Katsushi Kobayashi
21 April, 2002: New committer: Eric Anholt
15 April, 2002: New committer: Jonathan Mini
12 April, 2002: New committer: Tim Robbins
11 April, 2002: New committer: Greg Lewis (Ports)
8 April, 2002: A developer preview snapshot of 5.0-CURRENT is now available. Please see the release notes for more information. Also be sure to check the release errata for a list of known problems.
8 April, 2002: New committer: Gerald Pfeifer (Ports)
5 April, 2002: New committer: Joe Marcus Clarke (Ports)
1 April, 2002: New committer: Norikatsu Shigemura (Ports)
30 March, 2002: Notes from the BSDCon 2002 FreeBSD Developer Summit are now available.
28 March, 2002: New committer: Tom Rhodes (Documentation Project)
29 March, 2002: New committer: SUZUKI Shinsuke (IPv6)
19 March, 2002: New committer: Alexander Leidinger (Ports)
17 March, 2002: New committer: Ceri Davies (Documentation)
12 March, 2002: A new area of the FreeBSD web site has been created dedicated to release engineering. This new section contains information about future releases of FreeBSD, a specific schedule for the upcoming releases of FreeBSD 4.6 and 5.0, and more.
9 March, 2002: FreeBSD now works with multiple processors on sparc64 systems, thanks to the efforts of Jake Burkholder, and Thomas Moestl.
3 March, 2002: New committer: Maxime Henrion (VFS, SMP, ...)
25 February, 2002: The December/January status report is now available; see the status reports Web page for more information.
25 February, 2002: New committer: J. Mallett
18 February, 2002: New committer: Bernd Walter (Alpha)
11 February, 2002: FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce new section of the FreeBSD.org site devoted to various aspects of the GNOME desktop and development environment on the FreeBSD. Check it out here.
7 February, 2002: New committer: Maxim Konovalov
31 January, 2002: The announcement and call for papers for BSDCon Europe 2002 has been released. This conference will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands some time in November 2002. Individuals interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit an abstract by June 24, 2002.
29 January, 2002: FreeBSD 4.5 has been released. Please see the Release Information page for more details. Also be sure to check the release errata after installation for any late-breaking issues with 4.5 that may occur.
12 January, 2002: The FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering Team has submitted a testing guide for the upcoming FreeBSD 4.5 release. Please help us ensure that 4.5 is our most stable and highest performance release yet.
10 January, 2002: Aaron Kaplan has submitted a new article explaining how to adjust your system configuration to use the new Euro symbol on FreeBSD.