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boot test: login stage depends on a syslog fallback, so it flakes and cannot see an autologin regression Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#289 · Opened Sep 24, 2026

libds: read and write the DirectoryServices plists, on CoreFoundation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#287 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026

adduser: NextBSD's own, replacing FreeBSD's, on the user template Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#286 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2026

MOTD: a first-login task list for new users (/etc/motd, Darwin-style) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#285 · Opened Sep 24, 2026

Document how to turn the optional services on: NFS, NTP and the directory client Open

area:accounts documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#283 · Opened Sep 24, 2026

Workspace: on NextBSD, stop creating the standard home folders at startup; the user template owns them Open

area:desktop enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#280 · Opened Sep 23, 2026

Workspace: post mount/unmount on the workspace centre, retire the 1.5 s poll behind the disk agent, and unmount via the DA CLI instead of sudo umount -f Open

area:desktop area:storage enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#274 · Opened Sep 23, 2026

Spike: disk images (dmg/iso/squashfs) as DiskArbitration disks -- how VolumeManager's darling-dmg/fuseiso/squashfuse mounts under /Volumes stop depending on vfs.usermount Open

area:research area:storage enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#273 · Opened Sep 23, 2026

disk agent: bridge DiskArbitration events to GNUstep distributed notifications, so no GPL app links libDiskArbitration Open

area:desktop area:storage enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#272 · Opened Sep 23, 2026

Input hotplug: no devd, so libudev-devd consumers (libinput/wlroots/seatd) never see devices that appear after they start Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#271 · Opened Sep 22, 2026

libmach/kernel: mach_port_allocate returns -1 (syscall error) instead of the kern_return_t — the trap hands kr back as errno Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#270 · Opened Sep 22, 2026

launchd: core.c:4824 MACH_SEND_INVALID_DEST still fires at boot after #110 -- once on installed systems, three times on the live ISO Open

area:boot bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#259 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

launchd: console NOTE_REVOKE watch uses EVFILT_VNODE on /dev/console, which FreeBSD devfs rejects with EINVAL (core.c:7365) Open

area:boot bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#258 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

launchd: monitor_networking_state() opens Darwin's PF_SYSTEM socket and soft-asserts EAFNOSUPPORT every boot (launchd.c:839); port it to PF_ROUTE Open

area:boot bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#257 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

Account tools: NextBSD's own adduser, rmuser, passwd, chpass, pw over the DirectoryServices plists Open

area:accounts enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#255 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2026

zsh: NextBSD profile -- /etc/zshenv, zprofile and zshrc defaults, prompt, history, completion, autosuggestions, new-user skeleton Open

area:accounts enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#254 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

dspromote, dsdemote, dsjoin, dsleave: the directory server and client commands Open

area:accounts enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#253 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2026

caffeinate: assertions visible end to end in pmset -g assertions (follow-up to #236) Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#246 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

launchd: restore native WatchPaths / KeepAlive.PathState (backport launchd-392.39 kqueue watches, O_PATH on FreeBSD) Open

area:boot enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#243 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

nextbsd-linux link: stubs and Gershwin .app wrappers for installed Linux applications Open

area:desktop area:linux enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#242 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

nextbsd-linux: debootstrap a Devuan/Debian userland and run apt in it (apt shim, bootstrap, run, shell, status, destroy) Open

area:linux enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#241 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2026

Packaging: power LaunchDaemons, build blocks, man pages, compat strip entries, and ACPI sysctl defaults Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#240 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

Display sleep and HID idle time without IODisplayWrangler -- pmconfigd owns display idle Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#239 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmconfigd: pmset schedule sleep/shutdown/restart performed by pmconfigd itself; wake/poweron waits on S3's RTC alarm Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#238 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

reboot/shutdown/halt: vendor Apple's system_cmds versions over the BSD PID-1 signal protocol launchd already honours Open

area:base area:power enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#237 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmset: port pmset.m -- -g, -g batt, -g assertions, -g log, sleepnow, displaysleep/sleep settings, schedule Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#235 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

libIOKit: IORegisterForSystemPower, IOAllowPowerChange, IOCancelPowerChange and IOPMSleepSystem re-aimed at pmconfigd Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#234 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

libIOKit: IOPMAssertion API and the IOPMLib / IOPMLibPrivate headers Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#233 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

libIOKit: IOPowerSources (ps.subproj) -- IOPSCopyPowerSourcesInfo and friends, plus <IOKit/ps/*.h> Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#232 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmconfigd: CPU power policy -- set Intel HWP EPP by AC/battery profile; replaces FreeBSD powerd, with an interim LaunchDaemon until then Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#231 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmconfigd: publish power state for Gershwin in SCDynamicStore -- battery %, AC, lid, sleep pending Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#230 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmconfigd: S3 sleep/wake orchestration -- CanSystemSleep, WillSleep, WillNotSleep, WillPowerOn, HasPoweredOn, with a 30 s acknowledgement budget Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#229 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmconfigd: assertion engine and idle-sleep policy -- PreventUserIdleSystemSleep/DisplaySleep, PreventSystemSleep, sleep and displaysleep timers Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 22/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#228 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmconfigd: power sources from IOPMPowerSource nodes -- kIOPS dictionaries, notify state bits, and an AC-only source when there is no battery Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#227 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmconfigd: one kernel shim -- root-domain selectors become /dev/iopmroot ioctls, and 'IOIN' interest messages drive the daemon Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#226 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

libIOKit: IOServiceAddInterestNotification over 'IOIN', and IORegistryEntrySetCFProperty on the root domain Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#225 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

pmconfigd: vendor PowerManagement-1846.120.8.0.1 and boot a minimal daemon as the com.apple.powerd MachService Open

area:power enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#224 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: AVRCP target — accept the headset's play/pause/next/volume keys and deliver them to the session Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#220 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: A2DP sink — supervise virtual_bt_speaker so a phone can play through the machine's speakers Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#219 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: A2DP source — on connect of an AudioSink device, run/retarget virtual_oss at `/dev/bluetooth/<addr>`, publish the node, fall back on disconnect Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#218 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

Scope HOGP (HID over GATT) for LE-only keyboards/mice — blocked on the Bluetooth engine decision Open

area:bluetooth question status:parked

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#217 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bthidd: Apple Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 1/2 vendor reports (scroll, multitouch via uinput) Open

area:bluetooth enhancement status:parked

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#216 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bthidd: reload config on SIGHUP without dropping sessions; rescan all devices per tick (NextBSD patch, upstream candidate) Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#215 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: HID profile driver — generate bthidd.conf on pair, supervise bthidd -u, keyboards usable pre-login Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#214 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: connect/disconnect, per-device state publishing (State:/Bluetooth/Device), auto-reconnect of paired devices at boot Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#213 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: supervise stock sdpd (and the child-supervision hook bthidd/btpand will use) Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#212 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#211 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: SCPreferences persistence — PairedDevices metadata plus a separate 0600 link-key file; `bluetooth list` Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#210 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: security manager replacing hcsecd — link-key/PIN replies, SSP (numeric comparison, passkey), pair/unpair RPCs, pull-model user confirmation Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#209 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

bluetoothd: Classic inquiry scan with cached results and remote names; `bluetooth scan` Open

area:bluetooth enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

nextbsd/nextbsd-userland#208 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

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