FreeBSD 15.0 is officially released as the newest major update to this leading BSD operating system.
FreeBSD 15.0 features a plethora of software updates from the latest OpenZFS file-system code to upgraded OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and countless other software upgrades.
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE also can build all release artifacts without needing root privileges and also now passing reproducible builds. The FreeBSD base system can also now be installed and managed using the pkg package manager.
The FreeBSD 15.0 kernel also has great improvements like a native inotify implementation and numerous device driver updates. The FreeBSD-on-laptops effort has also resulted in many WiFi improvements, graphics driver enhancements, suspend/resume fixes, and other improvements.
Some of the other driver improvements in FreeBSD 15.0 include Intel E800 series networking with the ICE driver, Tiger Lake through Meteor Lake support from Intel in different drivers, the BNXT driver now supporting Thor2 and 400G speed modules, and the Intel IWX driver for WiFi 6 hardware support. The AGP bus driver meanwhile is deprecated and planned for removal in FreeBSD 16.
FreeBSD 15.0 benchmarks coming up soon on Phoronix. Downloads and more details on today’s FreeBSD 15.0 release via FreeBSD.org.
