Major Site Update in Beta
If you’re reading this, you’ve found the exciting new beta version of FreshBSD, consisting of a large number of optimizations, bugfixes, and tweaks, with nearly 100 commits and several thousand lines of code changed.
Noteworthy user-facing changes include:
- Brand new SVG logo and a fresh(ish) new look
- Significant performance improvements, with a 3x faster front-page
- Rewritten commit message formatter, which now supports SVN/git revision linking
- FreeBSD usernames are now included in git committer/author
- Enabled searching for commiter/authors by partial name
- This news system, such as it is, is finally hooked up
In addition to these, there have been significant internal code cleanups and improvements which have been long-needed, and the backend PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch have been updated to their latest production releases.
I plan to switch this over to the live site within the next week or so. Please let me know if you spot anything that looks wonky - shoot me an email or poke me on IRC, contact details are in the footer.