Important ports were updated: Mesa to 11.0.8, the X.Org server to 1.17.4, libdrm to 2.4.65, as well as many applications and libraries. The latest release of the X.Org server, 1.18, is being tested in our Ports development tree.

On the kernel side, the i915 update is almost ready to land. There are a couple known regressions with already supported GPUs we want to fix before.

We started a discussion on the freebsd-x11@ mailing list to organize future contributions to the kernel drivers. We already had valuable comments. We are confident that future updates will happen at a faster pace, thanks to several motivated people!

FOSDEM is held in Brussels on the 30th and 31st of January. We will attend this conference. It will be a perfect time to see people again from FreeBSD and from the XDC. On Sunday, we will give a talk about how to contribute to the Graphics Stack.

Our blog is currently down because the service was discontinued. We hope to get a dump of our data to put it back online elsewhere. Unfortunately, no ETA for this item.