The third weekly alpha release of the upcoming FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing.
FreeBSD 15.0 continues hiking toward a stable release in December. This is the third of four planned alphas before moving on to the beta and release candidate phases. It’s also in early October when FreeBSD 15.0 will be branched in the development tree.
FreeBSD 15.0 is shaping up to be a very significant OS update with reproducible builds and many other new features and hardware support. One of the recent significant efforts in the FreeBSD space has been to better enhance the FreeBSD on laptops support from WiFi to power management and other functionality. Plus enhancing the FreeBSD desktop experience at large and adding a KDE desktop option to the FreeBSD OS installer.
With today’s FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 3 release there is more work on the wireless drivers. Various LinuxKPI and WiFi driver updates were merged this past week for the third alpha release. FreeBSD 15.0 is set to have significantly better WiFi hardware support / driver coverage than prior releases but is still trailing behind the likes of Windows, Linux, and macOS. Hopefully moving forward FreeBSD WiFi support will continue to improve.
In addition to WiFi driver updates, FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 3 also has pkgbase-related fixes to release image building and installation. Plus there are updates to packages such as unbound and bc.
Downloads and more details on the FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 3 release via freebsd-stable.
