IRILL - Research and Innovation on Free Software This talk will go through the nice developments in the GNU Hurd that have been done over the past few years. This will include work on the text console, on network virtualization, on automatic translator startup, and on general support improvements on languages, bugfixes, etc. I will notably explain how we now run Linux network drivers in a userland process, how a user can run his own TCP/IP stack and make only some applications use it.