
Some of the highlights for FreeBSD's Q1'2016 status report include:
- The FreeBSD Core Team is working on a rewrite of the Code of Conduct.
- The Core Team is working on a separate repository to offer a GPLv3 toolchain for newer GCC and other components compared to the current GPLv2 components in FreeBSD. This would just be used for areas where LLVM and other copy-free licensed alternatives aren't as in good standing.
- Ceph is being brought over to FreeBSD.
- The i915 kernel Intel graphics driver in FreeBSD now matches where it was in the Linux 3.8.13 kernel. Mesa 11.1.2 is available on FreeBSD in user-space.
- Numerous ARM Allwinner SoC updates.
- An enhanced CAM I/O scheduler has landed that was sponsored by Netflix but the new behavior is currently disabled by default.
- FreeBSD's support for the Cavium ThunderX 64-bit ARM platform has vastly improved.
- Native PCI Express hot-plugging for FreeBSD is being worked on.
- More progress on allowing LLVM's Linker (LLD) to be used on FreeBSD for its build process.
- GNOME 3.18 and MATE 1.12 landed in the FreeBSD ports tree.
You can read the report in full at FreeBSD.org.
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