FreeBSD Announces End of Support for 32-bit Platforms in Future Releases
The FreeBSD project has officially announced its decision to deprecate support for 32-bit platforms in the upcoming major releases. This means that FreeBSD 15.0 will not include the armv6, i386, and powerpc platforms, and FreeBSD 16.0 will exclude armv7.
Despite this change, it’s crucial to note that support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels will be maintained through at least the lifetime of the stable 16 branch, enabling smooth transitions to 64-bit versions.