Vector Packet Processing (VPP) is an open-source, high-performance user space networking stack that provides fast packet processing suitable for software-defined networking and network function virtualization applications. VPP aims to optimize packet processing through vectorized operations and parallelism, making it well-suited for high-speed networking applications. Starting in November 2023, the Foundation began a contract with Tom Jones, a FreeBSD developer specializing in network performance, to port VPP to FreeBSD.

FreeBSD's CI infrastructure is based on Jenkins. A job is run every time a developer pushes a commit to the FreeBSD src repository. There is a desire to make this more accessible for developers in a pre-commit environment by integrating them into FreeBSD's build system. Similar to how make universe or make tinderbox builds all supported architectures, make ci would achieve something similar for all the supported builds.

cloud-init is the standard way of provisioning servers in the cloud. Unfortunately, cloud-init’s support for operating systems other than Linux is rather poor and the lack of cloud-init support on FreeBSD is a hindrance to cloud providers who want to offer FreeBSD as a Tier I platform. To remedy this, the FreeBSD Foundation has contracted Mina Galić to bring FreeBSD cloud-init support on par with Linux support.