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2021-07-24 12:30:02

This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between April and June, and is the second of four planned reports for 2021.

Some of this reports highlights include but are not limited to work on an experimental installer, changes to pf, additional work on the Linuxulator, updates on the state of kernel sanitizers, coverage of the raidz expansion feature for ZFS, and some news about resource accounting.

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Like most organizations, our team continued to work from home. Our temporary ban on travel for staff members remains in effect, but continues to not affect our output too much, since most conferences are still virtual. As the world continues to open up we will re-evaluate the travel ban. We continued supporting the community and Project through our regular channels.