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The January to March 2013 Status Report is now available with 31 entries.

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste’s new role as the Foundation’s part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation’s board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position.

The third RC build for the FreeBSD-8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

An anonymous reader writes “Today, OpenBSD 5.3 has been released. It has many improvements, updates, and new stuff. Also, OpenSMTPD 5.3 is included. This is the first version of OpenSMTPD considered to be ready for production. Many pre-built packages are available for many architectures. OpenBSD 5.3 ships with various Desktop Environments, including Gnome 3.6, KDE 3.5, and XFCE 4.10.” And don’t forget the release song, “Blade Swimmer.”

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An anonymous reader writes “DragonFly BSD has released version 3.4. This version is the first BSD to support GCC 4.7, and contains a new experimental Aptitude-like binary package installed called DPorts, which uses the FreeBSD ports collection as a base.”

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

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.

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation In Google’s 2013 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project’s ninth year in the program, having mentored over 150 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2012.

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation In Google’s 2013 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project’s ninth year in the program, having mentored over 150 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2012.