Matthew Dillon has been very busy the past few weeks getting his HAMMER2 file-system ready for an experimental debut in the next DragonFlyBSD release.

One of the interesting Google Summer of Code projects within the BSD realm this summer was working on a new boot management tool and library for ZFS on FreeBSD. It's still in the works, but progress is being made.

While Linux users of AMD's new Zen-based Ryzen/Threadripper/Epyc processors are still waiting for thermal driver support to hit the mainline Linux kernel, FreeBSD developers have already managed to produce the Zen "Family 17h" CPU thermal monitoring support on their own.

Following the AMD Threadripper Linux tests of this week today I finally had a chance to try out some of the BSDs with this 16 core / 32 thread system.

For those interested in the work being done to the HAMMER2 file-system that's being developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFlyBSD, it is indeed getting closer to being a working reality.

Version 2.4 of the pfSense BSD-based firewall/router operating system is nearing and the release candidate is out this week for testing.

After the HAMMER2 file-system was announced back in 2012, the next DragonFlyBSD release likely to be released in September will offer experimental support for this next-generation HAMMER file-system.

For those riding the FreeBSD 10 train and not yet prepared to jump on over to FreeBSD 11 with its recent v11.1 release, there is FreeBSD 10.4 being worked on.

Matthew Dillon began developing the HAMMER2 file-system in 2012 and back then he talked about it being until at least 2013 when it would be usable, etc. Five years later, it's looking like HAMMER2 is closer to being usable on DragonFlyBSD systems.

Separate from the AMD Ryzen performance marginality problem affecting Linux users, BSD users have been working on a workaround for their kernels to address problems with how their user stacks are mapped.

While TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) is arguably the most well known desktop variant of FreeBSD, GhostBSD has been gaining ground as well as a FreeBSD-based desktop-friendly operating system. Today marks the availability of GhostBSD 11.1 Alpha.

DragonFlyBSD 4.8.1 has been released by Justin Sherrill with various minor updates -- particularly for Intel DRM graphics and other kernel improvements -- over the recent v4.8 milestone.

OpenBSD is now the latest BSD switching from GCC to LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler by default.

A big update is available today of OPNsense, the fork of pfSense that serves as a FreeBSD-based network operating system / firewall.

Bitrig, the operating system that forked OpenBSD back in 2012, is no longer being developed.

The TrueOS BSD distribution has finished porting over more than one thousand FreeBSD RC scripts into OpenRC format for this dependency-based init system.

FreeBSD 11.1 is now available as the first point release to FreeBSD 11.

FreeBSD 11.1 remains on track for releasing later this month.

The latest quarterly update to the pkgsrc cross-platform package manager is now available with a variety of new packages as well as some infrastructure improvements.

FreeBSD developers have announced the second release candidate of the upcoming FreeBSD 11.1.

The first release candidate for FreeBSD 11.1 is now available for testing.

TrueOS-aligned Lumina Desktop Environment 1.3 is now available as the latest stable release for this Qt-powered desktop environment.

The third beta for the upcoming FreeBSD 11.1 is available for testing this weekend.

FreeNAS 11.0 is now officially available, the network attached storage (NAS) centered operating system powered by FreeBSD.

The first beta for FreeBSD 11.1 is out right on schedule.

NetBSD developers are preparing to release the version "8.0" of their operating system in the near future.

TrueOS, the FreeBSD-derived operating system formerly known as PC-BSD, is out with a six-month stable release update.

This week FreeBSD has finally merged the fruits of the ino64 project: 64-bit inodes support.

The FreeBSD team has published their quarterly status report to reflect the progress made by this open-source operating system during Q1'2017.

DragonFlyBSD has updated their port of the Radeon DRM Linux driver code to provide better open-source AMD graphics support.