In addition to the recent news of [1]AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborating over improvements , some more good news for this leading BSD open-source project is the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) now beginning to invest in FreeBSD.

Germany's [2]Sovereign Tech Fund has already yielded great results providing funding for GNOME development, Rustls, Coreutils uutils, and other open-source projects. The latest great news is Sovereign Tech Fund announcing today they are providing a €686,400 investment to help modernize the FreeBSD infrastructure.

STF is providing FreeBSD with the funding through 2025 to work on zero-trust builds, CI/CD automation, lowering the technical debt of the project, enhancing security controls, and making other improvements.

More details on this significant new funding for the FreeBSD Foundation via [3]the FreeBSD Foundation blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q2-2024-Improvements

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Sovereign+Tech+Fund

[3] https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-to-invest-e686400-in-freebsd-infrastructure-modernization/