FreeBSD 15.0 continues working its way toward a stable release in early December and out today is the fifth alpha release.
FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 5 was necessitate and thus pushing back the 15.0 release branching and first beta release by one week. But the hope is still for releasing on schedule with an announcement on 2 December if they are able to cut-out the FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 milestone.
With FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 5 there are some release image/build improvements, new hardware support in the CXGBE network driver, a power management regression fix for after resuming from S3 sleep, and various other changes:
– Release images are now built in “no-root” mode.
– A “pkgbase-repo.tar” file is now published for each architecture containing the full pkgbase repository corresponding to the release.
– Many bug fixes related to pkgbase and the release build process.
– The cxgbe(4) driver has been updated to support newer hardware.
– Several issues in tzcode have been corrected.
– A change in power management which caused USB ports to be nonfunctional after resuming from S3 sleep has been reverted.
– expat has been updated to 2.7.3.
Downloads and more details on today’s FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 5 release via the freebsd-stable mailing list.
Fresh FreeBSD 15.0 comparison performance benchmarks coming up around the December release on Phoronix.
