The second alpha release of the upcoming FreeBSD 15 is now available for testing ahead of its planned official release in December.
As noted in the earlier alpha one announcement, there are many new features coming for FreeBSD 15.0 including a KDE desktop install option from the installer, better WiFi and power management and other enhancements to benefit FreeBSD on laptops, continued efforts around reproducible builds, the latest OpenZFS file-system capabilities, and much more.
Changed over the past week for FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 include the builds now being properly reproducible and the FreeBSD 15.0 install media containing the pkgbase repositories.
Similar to Linux distributions and other platforms, FreeBSD has been working on reproducible builds and zero-trust builds. With this weekend’s FreeBSD 15 Alpha 2 release, the OS builds are now properly reproducibly built.
Downloads and more information pertaining to the new FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 release via the mailing list announcement.
