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+=== FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure
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+Links: +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/MicrosoftAzure[Microsoft Azure article on FreeBSD wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/MicrosoftAzure[] +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV[Microsoft HyperV article on FreeBSD wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV[]
+
+Contact: Microsoft FreeBSD Integration Services Team <bsdic@microsoft.com> +
+Contact: link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-cloud[freebsd-cloud Mailing List] +
+Contact: The FreeBSD Azure Release Engineering Team <releng-azure@FreeBSD.org> +
+Contact: Wei Hu <whu@FreeBSD.org> +
+Contact: Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakrabarti@microsoft.com> +
+Contact: Colin Su <yuas@microsoft.com> +
+Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
+
+In this quarter, we have published the link:https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/marketplace/apps/thefreebsdfoundation.freebsd-13_4[13.4-RELEASE on Azure Marketplace].
+
+Souradeep Chakrabarti from Microsoft has added a feature to use hypercalls for TLB shootdown on Hyper-V and Azure.
+Micro-benchmark shows 30-40% performance improvement on TLB shootdown.
+This has been presented at the link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202409[DevSummit 202409]
+
+Wei Hu root-caused an issue on missing CDROM device when booting FreeBSD on the latest Azure v6 VM SKU.
+V6 type only offers NVMe disks to guest OS.
+He also continues bug fixing for FreeBSD MANA NIC device.
+
+Work in progress tasks:
+
+* Automating the image publishing process and merging to [.filename]#src/release/#. (Li-Wen Hsu)
+* Colin Su is testing adding FreeBSD support in link:https://azure.microsoft.com/products/devops/pipelines/[Azure Pipelines]
+** https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/3266[]
+** Building and publishing snapshot builds to link:https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/share-gallery-community[Azure community gallery].
+
+Open tasks:
+
+* Update FreeBSD-related doc at link:https://learn.microsoft.com[Microsoft Learn]
+* Update package:sysutils/azure-agent[] to the latest version
+* Upstream link:https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/pull/1892[local modifications of Azure agent]
+* Port link:https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions[Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure]
+
+Sponsor: Microsoft for people in Microsoft, and for resources for the rest +
+Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else