Dear FreeBSD Community,

Six months have passed since the November security incident which
brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are
pleased to announce that all services are now restored.  This has
followed a significant effort to review security throughout the FreeBSD
Project's infrastructure, and reengineer the package-building system to
support greater

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2013

Introduction

   This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March
   2013. This is the first of four reports planned for 2013.

   Highlights from this status report include the busy preparations of
   8.4-RELEASE, restoration of binary package building, steady progress of
   several porting efforts, like work on the FreeBSD ports of xorg, GNOME,
   KDE, and Xfce, bringing FreeBSD to Cubieboard and Hackberry boards,
   development of ARM and AMD GPU support, improving performance of
   UFS/FFS and callouts, and introducing a multipath TCP implementation
   for the network stack.

   Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
   contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

   The deadline for submissions

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz
Napierala has joined as its second member of technical staff.  This is
a continuation of the Foundation's plan to invest in staff in 2013.

A FreeBSD committer since 2007, Edward previously completed a number
of projects under Foundation grants, including safe device removal
with mounted filesystems, growing mounted filesystems, and resource
containers.

Edward is currently implementing a native in-kernel iSCSI stack (both
target and initiator) for this increasingly popular block storage
protocol.  "Although there are a number of iSCSI target implementations
that support FreeBSD, the project lacks a high performance and reliable
in-kernel target.  As iSCSI gains favor, this stack will be a