We have a couple of updates to share about the FreeBSD Journal. A New Editor Please join us in welcoming Matt Slaybaugh as the Journal’s new editor. Matt brings years of editorial and content management experience, including his ongoing wor…
This year, I had the great privilege of receiving the FreeBSD Foundation travel grant to attend BSDCan. The conference informally kicked off with the traditional gathering at the Father & Sons bar near the 90U residence on Tuesday.The first…
The June 2026 FreeBSD DevSummit & BSDCan was again successfully recorded and streamed through longtime streaming sponsor ScaleEngine. The requested DevSummit 2 question microphone system kept our running around to a minimum and fit the two
I’m really grateful to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring my trip to BSDCan 2026 in Ottawa. The conference ran for four days — two days of DevSummit, then two days of the main conference, with many interesting talks throughout. For me, i…
During BSDCan, the FreeBSD Foundation holds its annual meeting and Board elections. Following this year’s meeting, we are pleased to welcome Dave Cottlehuber to the FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors. Take a minute to read this interview…
FreeBSD Community member and former Core Representative, Dave Cottlehuber, was elected to the FreeBSD Foundation Board during the Annual Meeting on June 15, 2026. We sat down with Dave to learn more about his history with FreeBSD and what h…
Teaching others about FreeBSD and helping it grow doesn’t require a developer background — it just takes someone willing to show up and talk about why this project matters. Whether that’s presenting at a local meetup or bringing FreeBSD int…
The Travel Grant Application for EuroBSDCon 2026 is now open. The Foundation can help you attend EuroBSDCon through our travel grant program. Travel grants are available to FreeBSD developers and advocates who need assistance with travel ex…
EuroBSDCon is the International annual technical conference held in a different European country each year. It focuses on gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems fam…
In September 2025, Harald Eilertsen gave a talk at EuroBSDcon titled “Improving OpenJDK on FreeBSD – Where we are, and what I’ve learned“. Harald has been working with the upstream OpenJDK project on improving the support for FreeBSD. Sitti…
Graphics support in FreeBSD has reached a milestone with the drm-kmod port now including the Linux 6.12 (LTS) graphics driver. This version of the port works with FreeBSD 15.1 onwards. The update marks an important upgrade in graphics in bo…
About the project The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with the key goal of reducing the number of exploitable vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD source code. The 6-month project is being funded by…