FreeBSD quarterly status report for Q4 2020

This quarter had quite a lot of work done, including but certainly not limited to, in areas relating to everything from multiple architectures such as x86, aarch64, riscv, and ppc64 for both base and ports, over kernel changes such as vectored aio, routing lookups and multipathing, an alternative random(4) implementation, zstd integration for kernel dumps, log compression, zfs and preparations for pkg(8), along with wifi changes, changes to the toolchain like the new elfctl utility, and all the way to big changes like the git migration and moving the documentation from DocBook to Hugo/AsciiDoctor, as well as many other things too numerous to mention in an introduction.

The best way to keep up with FreeBSD development from an outsider's perspective. FreeBSD is on my radar for the UltraSPARC server-as-a-workstation project - a reader has donated a SunFire V245 that's currently in shipping to me - so I'm trying to be a bit more in tune than I usually am with the world of FreeBSD.