A year of funded FreeBSDI've been maintaining FreeBSD on the Amazon EC2 platform ever since I first got it booting in 2010, but in November 2023 I added to my responsibilities the role of FreeBSD release engineering lead — just in time to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.0, although Glen Barber did all the release engineering work for that release. Following FreeBSD's quarterly release schedule (which I announced in July 2024, but put together and presented at the FreeBSD developer summit at BSDCan in May 2024), I managed four FreeBSD releases during the past year: FreeBSD 13.4, in September 2024; FreeBSD 14.2, in December 2024; FreeBSD 13.5, in March 2025; and FreeBSD 14.3, currently scheduled for release on June 10th. I got to work:Starting in the first week of 2024, the FreeBSD boot process suddenly got about 3x slower. This large request was due to the way that FreeBSD seeded its entropy system; 32 pools each needed 64 bytes of entropy. Well, I'm still the FreeBSD release engineering lead and the maintainer of the FreeBSD/EC2 platform — just with rather less time to devote to this work.