FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 is out as the newest weekly test release of FreeBSD working its way toward a stable release in early December.
Similar to prior development builds of FreeBSD 15.0 improving their release build process, FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 brings more fixes to their release-building process.
Plus there are a number of pkgbase-related fixes and improvements in FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2.
The FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 announcement also notes its Blocklist is updated, which was formerly known as Blacklist. This blacklist/blocklist context is around FreeBSD’s blacklistd daemon for blocking and releasing ports on-demand to avoid denial of service abuse. For port blocking, blocklist in this context does arguably make more sense than blacklist. My only surprise is that it’s a rather late change in the cycle especially with warnings emitted for old usage.
Per this commit, FreeBSD has renamed all the “blacklist” elements to blocklist. The old blacklist ones will still work but with emitting warnings on usage.
A summary of changes since BETA1 includes:
– Many fixes to the release-building process.
– Many pkgbase-related fixes and adjustments.
– Blocklist (formerly known as blacklist) updated to 2025-04-28.
– SO_SNDTIMO now works on AF_LOCAL sockets.
– More useful output from vmstat -o.
More details and downloads for FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 via the release announcement.
Up next is the FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 release next weekend. Four betas in total followed by at least three release candidates are expected for FreeBSD 15.0. If all goes well FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE will be out on 2 December.
