FreeBSD: Fourth Quarter 2009 Report

A regular quarterly project development report has been published on freebsd.org. The report consists of 38 items. Developers particularly note the release of the long-awaited FreeBSD 8.0 and the upcoming release of FreeBSD 7.3.

Summary of the report:

• BSD version of iconv utility
• Replacing the GCC compiler with CLang
• Daemon webcamd
• VirtualBox and Chromium web browser appear in the ports tree
• Porting a pf firewall from OpenBSD 4.5
• NFSv4 ACL support
• Translation of documents into German, Spanish and Hungarian
• Beta version of the NVIDIA video driver for FreeBSD / ia64

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Read fully: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-10-2009-12.html