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FreeBSD 14.3-RC1 Now Available
posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 03, 2025
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The first release candidate build of the 14.3-RELEASE release cycle is now
available.
Installation images are available for:
o 14.3-RC1 amd64 GENERIC
o 14.3-RC1 i386 GENERIC
o 14.3-RC1 powerpc GENERIC
o 14.3-RC1 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 14.3-RC1 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 14.3-RC1 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 14.3-RC1 armv7 GENERICSD
o 14.3-RC1 aarch64 GENERIC
o 14.3-RC1 aarch64 RPI
o 14.3-RC1 aarch64 PINE64
o 14.3-RC1 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 14.3-RC1 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 14.3-RC1 aarch64 ROCK64
o 14.3-RC1 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 14.3-RC1 riscv64 GENERIC
o 14.3-RC1 riscv64 GENERICSD
Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally,
the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended
to change the password for both users after gaining access to the
system.
Installer images and memory stick images are available here:
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.3/
The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR
system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use Git to do a source based update of an existing
system, use the "releng/14.3" branch.
A summary of changes since BETA4 includes:
o The default pkg.conf file now includes the FreeBSD-kmods repository.
o OCI images are now being published to Docker and GitHub repositories.
o The sound subsystem now terminates streams when vchans are closed; this can
provide significant power savings.
o A struct packing issue causing wifi driver issues on arm64 has been fixed.
o A kernel panic in mac_do with INVARIANTS enabled has been fixed.
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The first release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now out, bringing OCI images to Docker Hub and Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub , along with various bug fixes.
