=== Alpha-Omega Beach Cleaning project

Links: +
link:https://alpha-omega.dev[Alpha-Omega -- Linux Foundation Project] URL: link:https://alpha-omega.dev[] +
link:https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega[Alpha-Omega on GitHub] URL: link:https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega[] +
link:https://freebsdfoundation.org[FreeBSD Foundation] URL: link:https://freebsdfoundation.org[] +
link:https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/alpha-omega-beach-cleaning[Project repository from the FreeBSD Foundation] URL: link:https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/alpha-omega-beach-cleaning[]

Contact: Pierre Pronchery <pierre@freebsdfoundation.org>

Alpha-Omega's mission is to catalyze sustainable security improvements to critical open source projects and ecosystems.
After a successful project with the FreeBSD Foundation in 2024 -- auditing the bhyve hypervisor and the Capsicum sandboxing framework -- Alpha-Omega has selected FreeBSD again, for the Alpha Omega Beach Cleaning project this time.
This new grant consists in generally improving the security and maintenance of third-party software within the FreeBSD base system.
The FreeBSD Foundation received the grant and has managed and executed the project.
This project is officially completed as of March 30th, 2026.

After the previous report from 2025Q4, two major objectives have been identified:

* Import of pkgconf into the base system (see link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1994[draft PR #1994] on GitHub)
* Import of pkg into the base system (see the link:https://github.com/khorben/freebsd-src/tree/khorben/pkg-2.6.2[khorben/pkg-2.6.2 branch] on GitHub)

Both objectives are nearing completion, and they were presented publicly at AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taiwan, during the link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202603[FreeBSD Developer Summit] as well as during the conference's link:https://2026.asiabsdcon.org/entry/talk/MSBLUR/[Work-in-Progress session].

Monthly reporting has been submitted to alpha-omega and is available as before on GitHub link:https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega/tree/main/alpha/engagements/2025/FreeBSD[for 2025] and link:https://github.com/ossf/alpha-omega/tree/main/alpha/engagements/2026/FreeBSD[for 2026].

Sponsor: Alpha-Omega, The FreeBSD Foundation