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Valuable FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Updates
The official FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE announcement should come any moment now – the 15.0-RELEASE Release Notes have been mostly updated – below I have gathered most valuable additions that FreeBSD 15.0 will bring. As the official announcement has not yet been made I just follow FreeBSD Documentation Tree Commits and will add any new things that will arise there.
Update
Final is now out:
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FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Now Available
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/15 branch.
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FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement | The FreeBSD Project
Some of the highlights: [...]
And in DW:
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BSD Release: FreeBSD 15.0
The FreeBSD project has announced the release of FreeBSD 15.0. The new version introduces the option of installing the operating system using the pkg package manager and updates the version of ZFS on the system. [...]
LWN:
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FreeBSD 15.0 released
FreeBSD 15.0 has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new method for installing the base system using the pkg package manager, an update to OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4, native support for the inotify(2) interface, and the addition of Open Container Initiative (OCI) images to FreeBSD's release artifacts. See the release notes for a full list of changes, hardware notes for supported hardware, and check the errata before installing or upgrading.
Valnet coverage:
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FreeBSD 15 now available, revamps package management and drops 32-bit hardware
FreeBSD, the open-source operating system, just released a new major update. FreeBSD 15 includes overhauled package management, new versions of utilities like OpenZFS and OpenSSL, and the end of support for most 32-bit hardware.
If you're not familiar with it, FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system with a kernel, device drivers, userland utilities, and documentation all maintained under the same project. Many utilities, applications, and desktop environments from the Linux ecosystem are also available for FreeBSD, and other Linux software can run unmodified with the Linuxulator. It's still not the best option for desktop computing, but it's a popular choice for servers and embedded hardware.
FreeBSD 15.0 can now use the pkg package manager for installing and managing the base system. When installing FreeBSD 15.0, the bsdinstall utility prompts you to select between two installation methods. The first method, called Distribution Sets, is the traditional approach used in earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems installed this way will continue to receive updates via the freebsd-update utility. Although support for distribution sets is planned to be removed in FreeBSD 16, it will remain available for as long as FreeBSD 15 is supported.