* Ports team released their landmark first quarterly “stable” branch* FreeBSD continues to grow on the ARM architecture, now running on an ARM-based Chromebook* SMP is now possible on multi-core ARM systems* bhyve, the native FreeBSD hypervisor, continues to improve* An integral test suite is taking shape, and the Jenkins Continuous Integration system has been implemented* FreeBSD patches to GCC are being “forward-ported”, and LLDB, the Clang/LLVM debugger is being ported* Desktop use has also seen improvements, with work on Gnome, KDE, Xfce, KMS video drivers, X.org, and vt, the new console driver which supports KMS and Unicode* Linux and Wine binary compatibility layers have been improved* UEFI booting support has been merged to head* The FreeBSD Foundation continues to assist in moving FreeBSD forward, sponsoring conferences and meetings and numerous development projects
