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This page tracks the state of third-party software in the FreeBSD base.
Kernel
| Name | SVNWeb | License | Vendor | head | stable/11 | stable/10 | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acpica | sys/contrib/dev/acpica | “Intel”, BSDish or GPLv2 | 20180629 | 20180629 | 20171214 | 20160527 | JungukKim |
| dtrace | dtracetoolkit | CDDL | ? | ? | ? | ? | RuiPaulo |
| ipfilter | contrib/ipfilter | BSD by permission of the author | 5.1.2 | 4.1.28 | 4.1.28 | 4.1.28 | DarrenReed |
| libfdt | sys/contrib/libfdt | BSD | 1.3.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | RafalJaworowski |
| octeon-sdk | contrib/octeon-sdk | BSDish | 2.3.0 | 2.3.0 | 2.3.0 | 2.3.0 | JuliMallett |
| opensolaris | cddl/contrib/opensolaris | CDDL | ? | 7837 | 7837 | 7837 | PawelJakubDawidek, MartinMatuska, RuiPaulo |
| pf | contrib/pf | BSD | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | MaxLaier |
| x86emu | contrib/x86emu | MIT / X | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | XinLi |
| xz-embedded | contrib/xz-embedded | Public Domain | 2011-09-19 | 2011-09-19 | 2011-09-19 | 2011-09-19 | AdrianChadd, AleksandrRybalko |
| zfs | cddl | CDDL | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | PawelJakubDawidek, MartinMatuska |
Upstream for dtrace, opensolaris and zfs is Illumos. Note that ZFS generally follows Illumos development in a cherry-pick manner and not as a wholesale from certain release so the version here is usually outdated. Current ZFS on all supported branches are post-“Feature Flags”, or also known as “version 5000”.
Drivers, Firmware
| Driver | SVNWeb | License | Vendor | head | stable/11 | stable/10 | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| arcmsr(4) | arcmsr | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1.20.00.26 | XinLi |
| cxgb(4) | cxgb | ? | ? | ? | ? | 7.11.0 | NavdeepParhar |
| cxgbe(4) | cxgbe | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1.4.16 | NavdeepParhar |
| em(4) / igb(4) | e1000 | BSD | ? | 7.3.2 | 7.3.2 | 7.3.2 | JackVogel |
| hpt27xx(4) | hpt27xx | ? | ? | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | XinLi |
| ispfw(4) | ispfw | ? | ? | 3.03.26 | 3.03.26 | 3.03.26 | MatthewJacob |
| iwn(4) | iwn | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | BernhardSchmidt |
| ixgbe(4) | ixgbe | BSD | ? | 2.3.8 | 2.3.8 | 2.3.8 | JackVogel |
| mps(4) | mps | ? | ? | 13.00.00.00 | 13.00.00.00 | 13.00.00.00 | KennethMerry |
| mxge(4) | mxge | ? | ? | 1.4.53a | 1.4.53a | 1.4.53a | AndrewGallatin |
| qlxgb(4) | qlxgb | ? | ? | 1.30 | 1.30 | 1.30 | BjoernZeeb |
| twa(4) | twa | ? | ? | 3.80.06.003 | 3.80.06.003 | 3.80.06.003 | XinLi |
| tws(4) | tws | ? | ? | 10.80.00.003 | 10.80.00.003 | 10.80.00.003 | XinLi |
| virtio(4) | virtio | ? | ? | c162516 | c162516 | c162516 | PeterGrehan |
many more …
Userland
Some of them live outside contrib/, for example, gnu/ and lib/.
| Name | SVNWeb | License | Vendor | head | stable/11 | stable/10 | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| amd | contrib/amd | BSD | 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.2 | DavidOBrien |
| awk | contrib/one-true-awk | BSD | 20121220 | 20121220 | 20121220 | 20121220 | RuslanErmilov |
| byacc | contrib/byacc | BSD | 20170430 | 20170430 | 20170201 | 20140101 | BaptisteDaroussin, JungukKim |
| bzip2 | contrib/bzip2 | BSD | 1.0.6 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.6 | DavidOBrien, XinLi |
| clang llvm | contrib/llvm | UoI/NCSA | 3.0 | r145349 | r145349 | r145349 | EdSchouten, RomanDivacky, DimitryAndric |
| compiler_rt | contrib/compiler-rt | UoI/NCSA or MIT | n/a | r147467 | r147467 | r147467 | EdSchouten |
| dialog | contrib/dialog | LGPLv2.1 | 1.2-20130523 | 1.2-20130523 | 1.2-20130523 | 1.2-20130523 | NathanWhitehorn |
| dtc | contrib/dtc | GPLv2 | 1.3.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | RafalJaworowski |
| dtruss | contrib/dtracetoolkit | CDDL | 06-Aug-2007 | 06-Aug-2007 | 06-Aug-2007 | 06-Aug-2007 | RuiPaulo |
| ee | contrib/ee | BSD | 1.5.2 | 1.5.2 | 1.5.2 | 1.5.2 | EdSchouten |
| expat | contrib/expat | MIT / X | 2.1.0 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.0 | ColemanKane |
| file | contrib/file | BSD | 5.30 | 5.29 | 5.29 | 5.29 | DavidOBrien |
| flex | contrib/flex | BSD | 2.6.2 | 2.5.37 | 2.5.37 | 2.5.37 | JungukKim |
| gdtoa | contrib/gdtoa | BSD | 20110304 | 20110304 | 20110304 | 20110304 | DavidSchultz |
| heimdal / com_err | crypto/heimdal contrib/com_err | BSD | 1.5.2 | 1.5.2 | 1.5.2 | 1.5.2 | |
| jemalloc | contrib/jemalloc | BSD | 4.5.0 | 4.5.0 | 4.2.1 | 3.4.0 | JasonEvans |
| less | contrib/less | BSD or GPLv3 | 481 | 481 | 481 | 481 | XinLi |
| libarchive | contrib/libarchive usr.bin/cpio usr.bin/tar | BSD | 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.3 | TimKientzle, MartinMatuska |
| libcxxrt | contrib/libc++ / contrib/libcxxrt | BSD | ? | 2011-11-25 | 2011-11-25 | 2011-11-25 | DavidChisnall |
| libedit | lib/libedit | BSD | 20170109 | 20160321 | 20160227 | 20091228 | DavidOBrien |
| libgnuregex | lib/libgnuregex | LGPLv2.1 | 2.17 | 2.17 | 2.17 | 2.17 | JungukKim |
| libpcap | contrib/libpcap | BSD | 1.8.1 | 1.8.1 | 1.6.2 | 1.4.0 | |
| libucl | contrib/libucl | BSD | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.3.8 | BaptisteDaroussin |
| Name | SVNWeb | License | Vendor | head | stable/11 | stable/10 | Contact |
| make | contrib/bmake | BSD | ? | 20140620 | 20140620 | ? | sjg |
| ncurses | contrib/ncurses | MIT-like | 5.9-20110404 | 5.7-20081102 | 5.7-20081102 | 5.7-20081102 | |
| netcat | contrib/netcat | BSD | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.5 | XinLi |
| ntp | contrib/ntp | BSDish | 4.2.8p5 | 4.2.8p5 | 4.2.8p5 | 4.2.4p8 | OllivierRobert |
| ofed | contrib/ofed | BSD or GPLv2 | 1.6 | 1.5.3 | 1.5.3 | 1.5.3 | JeffRoberson |
| openbsm | contrib/openbsm | BSD | 1.1p2 | 1.1p2 | 1.1p2 | 1.1p2 | RobertWatson |
| openpam | contrib/openpam | BSD | 20111218 (Lycopsida) | 20111218 | 20111218 | 20111218 | DagErlingSmørgrav |
| openresolv | contrib/openresolv | BSD | 3.9.0 | 3.9.0 | 3.8.1 | 3.4.4 | HajimuUmemoto |
| openssh | crypto/openssh | BSD | 5.9p1 | 5.9p1 | 5.9p1 | 5.9p1 | DagErlingSmørgrav |
| openssl | crypto/openssl | BSDish | 1.0.2n | 1.0.2n | 1.0.2n | 1.0.1u | BenLaurie, JungukKim |
| pam_passwdqc | contrib/pam_modules/pam_passwdqc | BSDish | 1.0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | DagErlingSmørgrav |
| pciids | pci_vendors | BSD or GPLv2 | ? | 20160523 | 20160523 | 20110716 | PhilipPaeps |
| sendmail | contrib/sendmail | Sendmail (BSDish) | 8.14.5 | 8.14.5 | 8.14.5 | 8.14.5 | GregoryShapiro |
| softfloat | lib/libc/softfloat | BSDish | n/a | 2012-01-17 | 2012-01-17 | 2012-01-17 | |
| tcpdump | contrib/tcpdump | BSD | 4.9.0 | 4.9.0 | 4.9.0 | 4.4.0 | |
| tcsh | contrib/tcsh | BSD | 6.18.01 | 6.18.01 | 6.18.01 | 6.17.0 | MarkPeek |
| tnftp | contrib/tnftp | BSD | 20141031 | 20100108 | 20100108 | 20100108 | GavinAtkinson |
| top | contrib/top | BSDish | 3.8beta1 | 3.5beta12 | 3.5beta12 | 3.5beta12 | EdwinGroothuis |
| tzcode | contrib/tzcode | Public Domain | 2015a | 2010m | 2010m | 2010m | EdwinGroothuis |
| tzdata | contrib/tzdata | Public Domain | 2015a | 2012j | 2012j | 2012j | EdwinGroothuis |
| hostapd wpa_supplicant | contrib/wpa | BSD or GPLv2 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.0 | |
| xz | contrib/xz | Public Domain (relevant parts) | 5.0.7 | 5.0.7 | 5.0.7 | 5.0.5+ | MartinMatuska |
| zlib | lib/libz | zlib (BSDish) | 1.2.8 | 1.2.8 | 1.2.8 | 1.2.8 | XinLi |
| Name | SVNWeb | License | Vendor | head | stable/11 | stable/10 | Contact |
Userland tools that switched to GPLv3
Most FSF projects have been migrating the (L)GPLv2 to GPLv3. These are unlikely to ever get updated in FreeBSD, and plans are being developed to migrate to other tools. See GPLinBase for details.
| Name | SVNWeb | Vendor | Last GPLv2 | head | stable/11 | stable/10 | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| binutils | contrib/binutils | 2.28 | 2.17.50 | 2.17.50 | 2.17.50 | 2.17.50 | DimitryAndric |
| diff | contrib/diff | 3.6 | 2.8.7 | 2.8.7 | 2.8.7 | 2.8.7 | XinLi |
| gcc | contrib/gcc | 7.2 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.1 | AlexanderKabaev, GeraldPfeifer |
| gdb | contrib/gdb | 7.2 | 6.6 | 6.1.1 | 6.1.1 | 6.1.1 | DavidOBrien |
| gperf | contrib/gperf | 3.1 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.3 | |
| grep | gnu/usr.bin/grep | 3.1 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.1 | 2.5.1 | 2.5.1 | |
| groff | contrib/groff | 1.22.3 | 1.19.2 | 1.19.2 | 1.19.2 | 1.19.2 | RuslanErmilov |
| libgomp | contrib/gcclibs | 7.2 | 4.3.6 | 4.3.5 | 4.3.5 | 4.2.1 | |
| libreadline | contrib/libreadline | 7.0 | 5.2 | 5.2.002 | 5.2.002 | 5.2.002 | |
| libstdc++ | contrib/libstdc++ | 7.0 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.4 | |
| texinfo | contrib/texinfo | 6.4 | 4.8a | - | - | 4.8 |
Software also available someplace else (sibling projects)
These tools have been picked up by someone else, or are also available at a different location or in another BSD. They are not considered contrib source in our tree, but have substantial new development available elsewhere. They evolved from *BSD though, and we might want to cherry-pick changes and bring them into our tree, or migrate them to fully contrib software.
| SVNWeb | License | head | stable/11 | stable/10 | Where | Other version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| usr.sbin/crunch | BSD | ? | ? | ? | NetBSD crunch | |
| usr.sbin/makefs | BSD | 2011?? | 2011?? | 2011?? | NetBSD makefs | |
| usr.bin/unifdef | BSD | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | http://dotat.at/prog/unifdef/ | 2.10 |
| usr.bin/yacc | BSD | - | - | - | http://invisible-island.net/byacc/byacc.html | 20100610 |
Software with ceased (?) upstream development
| Name | SVNWeb | License | Vendor | head | stable/11 | stable/10 | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bsnmp | contrib/bsnmp | BSD | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | HartmutBrandt |
| libbegemot | contrib/libbegemot | BSD | 1.11 | HartmutBrandt | |||
| ngatm | contrib/ngatm | BSD | |||||
| nvi | contrib/nvi | BSD | 1.79 | 1.79 | 1.79 | 1.79 | PeterWemm |
| opie | contrib/opie | NRL (BSDish) | 2.4.1-test1 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.4 | |
| pnpinfo | contrib/pnpinfo | BSDish | |||||
| smbfs | contrib/smbfs | BSD | 1.4.5 | 1.4.5 | 1.4.5 | BorisPopov | |
| SUN Freely Distributable LIBM (FDLIBM) | lib/msun | BSDish | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.3 | |
| tcp_wrappers | contrib/tcp_wrappers | BSD | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | |
| telnet | contrib/telnet | BSD | 95-10-23 | 95-10-23 | 95-10-23 | 95-10-23 | |
| traceroute | contrib/traceroute | BSD | 1.4a12 | 1.4a12 | 1.4a12 | 1.4a12 |
Notes on software with ceased upstream development
- telnet: no new version has been imported in 14+ years. Maybe move to usr.bin/telnet as all “development”, which is mainly security fixes, takes place in the FreeBSD svn repo. This is where telnet lives under OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD.