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+=== Sylve -- A Unified System Management Platform for FreeBSD
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+Links: +
+link:https://sylve.io[Website] URL: link:https://sylve.io[] +
+link:https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve[GitHub] URL: link:https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve[] +
+link:https://sylve-ci.alchemilla.io[CI] URL: link:https://sylve-ci.alchemilla.io[] +
+link:https://discord.gg/bJB826JvXK[Discord] URL: link:https://discord.gg/bJB826JvXK[]
+
+Contact: Hayzam Sherif <hayzam@alchemilla.io>
+
+Sylve is a modern, unified system management platform for FreeBSD.
+It provides an integrated web interface for managing virtual machines (via Bhyve), Jails, the networking around them, and ZFS storage.
+
+The backend is implemented in Go, while the frontend is built with Svelte.
+The project emphasizes a minimal system footprint.
+By default, it does not require any packages outside of the base system.
+
+At the end of this quarter, we made our first v0.1.0 release of Sylve, and at the time of writing this article, we are at v0.2.3.
+
+Optional runtime dependencies, required only when their respective features are used, include:
+
+- package:devel/libvirt[] for virtualization
+- package:devel/qemu[devel/qemu-tools] for disk image management
+- package:net/samba419[] for SMB file sharing
+- package:sysutils/swtpm[] for TPM emulation support
+- package:dns/dnsmasq[] for DHCP and DNS services
+
+The port pulls in these dependencies for convenience to the user, but by itself, Sylve needs no dependencies to run.
+
+==== Q1 Progress Highlights
+
+===== Data Center / Cluster
+
+* Improved how clusters are created and managed, making setups quicker and less prone to errors.
+* Implemented a backup solution using package:sysutils/zelta[], which supports backing up VMs, Jails, and custom datasets on a schedule without the need for custom software running on the target host (except SSH and ZFS).
+
+===== Jails
+
+* Snapshots for Jails (including their configs) are now supported directly from the Jail-specific UI.
+* Added Wake-On-LAN support for Jails with VNET.
+* Improved customizability of Jails by allowing users to specify a wide variety of supported options (hooks, DevFS ruleset, metadata, etc.).
+* Added support for a Ghostty (Zig/WASM)-based web terminal.
+* Linux jails now support static IP configuration.
+* A templating feature is now implemented for Jails; a Jail can be converted to a template and then cloned any number of times.
+* Start/Stop lifecycles and the associated UI have been significantly improved to make use of our built-in queue system, providing a faster and smoother user experience.
+
+===== Virtual Machines
+
+* Snapshots for VMs (including their configs) are now supported directly from the VM-specific UI.
+* 9P Filesystem support was implemented for quick sharing of folders between guest and host.
+* QEMU guest agent support was added for retrieving basic system and networking information.
+* Reboot/Start/Stop lifecycles and the associated UI have been significantly improved to make use of our built-in queue system, providing a faster and smoother user experience.
+* Added support for a Ghostty (Zig/WASM)-based web terminal for the serial console.
+* A templating feature is now implemented for VMs; a VM can be converted to a template and then cloned any number of times.
+* CPU Pinning has been reworked significantly, specifically to add support for multi-socket systems.
+
+===== Authentication
+
+* Passkey support was added for easy logins without the need to enter passwords.
+
+===== Utilities
+
+* The downloader now also supports uploads.
+* Queuing has been significantly improved for the downloader to make it more performant.
+
+===== General
+
+We have also made numerous improvements to the UI/UX, performance optimizations, and bug fixes across the platform.
+Some of these include:
+
+* PCI Passthrough support has been significantly improved and now includes a "Prepare Passthrough" button, which prepares a PCI device for passthrough, making it available for use with VMs after a system reboot.
+* Removed several NPM libraries in favor of custom-built alternatives or vendored-in dependencies to reduce the risk of supply chain attacks.
+* Made numerous performance optimizations to reduce RAM and CPU usage on the frontend.
+* Migrated the CI system from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, which now uses sysroots to build, allowing us to achieve faster build times.
+* Most of the telemetry data has been moved from the main SQLite database to a new telemetry database.
+This reduces the risk of locks on the primary DB, thereby increasing performance.
+* Wrote initial documentation and deployment guides for users to get started.
+
+==== Roadmap Update
+
+* Address user feedback.
+* Work on integrating more features (NFS Shares, NAT/Traffic Rules UI, etc.).
+
+Sponsors: The FreeBSD Foundation, Alchemilla Ventures (Development), IPTechnics LLC (Infrastructure & Testing)