The second beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing as an incremental update to this BSD operating system and ahead of the feature-rich FreeBSD 15.0 due out later in 2025.
FreeBSD 14.3 is aiming for release in early June. With FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 there are some WiFi fixes, working on enhancing the reproducibility of ARM64 kernel builds on the local system, and other changes:
– Multiple wifi-related bug fixes.
– A “tcp_do_segment: sent too much” KASSERT will no longer trigger under certain circumstances.
– nuageinit now supports chpasswd.
– xz has been updated to 5.8.1.
– Setting invalid VM sysctl values fails rather than causing a kernel panic.
– mountd(8) now reloads the exports(5) file properly.
– The arm64 kernel.bin file builds reproducible with respect to local.
– The in_systm.h and bpf.h headers are now self-contained.
Downloads and more details on this weekend’s FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 release via this mailing list post.
A third beta of FreeBSD 14.3 is expected next weekend before moving on to the FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 release and then hopefully having FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE out around 3 June. The FreeBSD release dance meanwhile should kick off in September and then be out as stable before year’s end after going through several months of alphas, betas, and release candidates.
