ContribSoftware - FreeBSD Wiki

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	20190329	20190329	20171214	20160527	JungukKim
dtrace	dtracetoolkit ¹	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	1.4.7	1.4.6	1.4.6	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Illumos development in a cherry-pick manner and not as a wholesale from certain release so the version here is usually outdated.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 ¹	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	DagErlingSmÃ¸rgrav
openresolv	contrib/openresolv	BSD	3.9.0	3.9.0	3.8.1	3.4.4	HajimuUmemoto
openssh	crypto/openssh	BSD	7.8p1	7.8p1	7.5p1	7.3p1	DagErlingSmÃ¸rgrav
openssl	crypto/openssl	BSDish	1.1.1b	1.1.1b	1.0.2r	1.0.1u	BenLaurie, JungukKim
pam_passwdqc	contrib/pam_modules/pam_passwdqc	BSDish	1.0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	DagErlingSmÃ¸rgrav
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	usr.bin/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++ ¹	contrib/libstdc++ ¹	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.

pf (from OpenBSD)

Needs to be in sync with kernel
Vendor usually breaks ABI/API between versions
Newer versions (>3.9) depend on huge routing infrastructure changes

name	OpenBSD cvsweb
authpf	authpf
ftp-proxy	ftp-proxy
libevent	libevent
man
pfctl	pfctl
pflogd	pflogd
tftp-proxy

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