Ahead of the FreeBSD 15.0 stable release expected to be announced next week, the FreeBSD project today published their Q3-2025 status report to outline their various development accomplishments from July through September.
The FreeBSD third quarter 2025 status report is now available to outline the many accomplishments made for this leading BSD platform. Some of the FreeBSD Q3-2025 highlights include:
– The FreeBSD Foundation continued sponsoring a number of improvements around suspend and resume, WiFi, the audio stack, DRM graphics drivers, and more. Plus there was also sponsored work carried out around improving virtual memory scalability, greater UFS reliability, a “noshutdown” safeguard to prevent OS shutdowns when desired, and other kernel improvements.
– FreeBSD developers continue testing the operating system on new Framework Computer devices like the Framework Laptop 12 and Framework Desktop.
– Sylve continues to be developed as a unified system management platform for FreeBSD. Sylve is inspired by Proxmix and provides a web interface for managing Bhyve VMs, Jails, ZFS storage, and more. Sylve is written in the Go programming language. Those wanting to check out Sylve specifically can do so via its GitHub.
– Bhyvemgr also saw more work over the past quarter as a management GUI written in Freepascal/Lazarus for the Bhyve hypervisor. There is now better logging support, Cloud Init / Nuageinit configuration file support, and other new features.
– ACPI Lua bindings were worked on as part of Google Summer of Code.
– Wutil is a new WiFi management utility under development for FreeBSD. wutil supports most WPA_Supplicant station-mode operations and is a CLI utility.
The Q3 status report in full can be read at FreeBSD.org.
