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FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2026
Here is the second 2026 status report, with 41 entries.
Thanks to all those who submit reports!<br>Whether you are a first time reporter, a Google Summer of Code student, a member of some FreeBSD team or some other kind of author, your report is useful.<br>It helps keeping the community informed and aware of what is going on, of the progress that are being made, of where their help might be needed etc.
If you are any kind of FreeBSD contributor, please consider writing one about your own contributions as well next quarter!
I would also like to thank Vladlen Popolitov for having implemented a long-requested feature: an RSS feed to track status reports.
Have a nice read!
Lorenzo Salvadore, on behalf of Status Team
Table of Contents
FreeBSD Team Reports
FreeBSD Foundation
FreeBSD Release Engineering Team
Cluster Administration Team
Bugmeister Team
Wiki-Admin Team
Projects
FreeBSD, CRA, EuroBSDCon, and Security Team
Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness Project
FreeBSD Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Full CPUID Control for bhyve
Sylve — A Unified System Management Platform for FreeBSD
Hackathon 202606 — Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parthenope — Current Status and Improvements
Native S.M.A.R.T. data retrieval in FreeBSD
Userland
Process Descriptor API completion 2
Scheduler
Kernel
Suspend/Resume Improvements
Hibernate (aka Suspend-to-disk)
Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC)
Audio Stack Improvements
LinuxKPI 802.11 and Native Wireless Update
DRM drivers
GENEVE Tunnel
Series of IPv6 Improvements
Support for Routing Metric
Native MPLS Support for FreeBSD
Bluetooth HID drivers
NTSYNC(9)
Architectures
Raspberry Pi Imager FreeBSD Port
Enhancing Arduino and ESP32 Development Ecosystem on FreeBSD
FreeBSD Driver Development for BananaPi-R64/R2-PRO
Framework Laptop support
ROCm support on FreeBSD
Cloud
FreeBSD on EC2
FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure
Documentation
The FreeBSD Russian Documentation Project
Ports
Dockerbox
KDE on FreeBSD
GCC on FreeBSD
Improve OpenJDK on FreeBSD
FreeBSD HPC Ports Modernization: Slurm 26.05, UCX 1.20 Upstreaming, and MPI-Parallel File Utilities
Improve libvirt support for bhyve hypervisor
FreeBSD Team Reports
Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, as found in the Administration Page.
FreeBSD Foundation
Links:
FreeBSD Foundation URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/
Technology Roadmap URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/
Donate URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
Foundation Partnership Program URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/freebsd-foundation-partnership-program/
FreeBSD Journal URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/journal/
Foundation Events URL: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/events/
Contact: Deb Goodkin deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org>
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to advancing FreeBSD through both technical and non-technical support.<br>Funded entirely by donations, the Foundation supports software development, infrastructure, security, and collaboration efforts; organizes events and developer summits; provides educational resources; and represents the FreeBSD Project in legal matters.
OS Improvements
In the second quarter of 2026, there were 638 src, 120 ports, and 31 doc commits sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation.
Refer to these report entries describing much of that sponsored development work:
Audio Stack Improvements
Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC)
Dockerbox
DRM drivers
Framework Laptop support
FreeBSD, CRA, EuroBSDCon, and Security Team
FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure
FreeBSD Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Full CPUID Control for bhyve
Hackathon 202606 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hibernate (aka Suspend-to-disk)
Improve libvirt Support for bhyve Hypervisor
Improve OpenJDK on FreeBSD
LinuxKPI 802.11 and Native Wireless Update
NTSYNC(9)
Process Descriptor API completion 2
Raspberry Pi Imager FreeBSD Port
ROCm support on FreeBSD
Scheduler
Suspend/Resume Improvements
Sylve — A Unified System Management Platform for FreeBSD
Other highlights:
The Foundation is supporting two projects: the Laptop Support and Usability project (in collaboration with Quantum Leap Research), and a<br>Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness Project.
For background on the Laptop Support and Usability project, refer to the 2025Q1 quarterly status report.
FreeBSD is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026.<br>Refer to the FreeBSD Summer of Code 2026 Projects Wiki Page for information about each project.
Advocacy
In the second quarter of 2026, our advocacy work focused on expanding our educational video content, reaching more viewers than ever, bringing the community...