FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 Brings WiFi Fixes, Reproducible ARM64 Kernel Binary Build
The second beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing as an incremental update to this BSD operating system and ahead of the feature-rich FreeBSD 15.0 due out later in 2025.
FreeBSD 14.3 is aiming for release in early June. With FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 there are some WiFi fixes, working on enhancing the reproducibility of ARM64 kernel builds on the local system, and other changes:
Downloads and more details on this weekend's FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 release via this mailing list post.
A third beta of FreeBSD 14.3 is expected next weekend before moving on to the FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 release and then hopefully having FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE out around 3 June. The FreeBSD release dance meanwhile should kick off in September and then be out as stable before year's end after going through several months of alphas, betas, and release candidates.
FreeBSD 14.3 is aiming for release in early June. With FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 there are some WiFi fixes, working on enhancing the reproducibility of ARM64 kernel builds on the local system, and other changes:
- Multiple wifi-related bug fixes.
- A "tcp_do_segment: sent too much" KASSERT will no longer trigger under certain circumstances.
- nuageinit now supports chpasswd.
- xz has been updated to 5.8.1.
- Setting invalid VM sysctl values fails rather than causing a kernel panic.
- mountd(8) now reloads the exports(5) file properly.
- The arm64 kernel.bin file builds reproducible with respect to local.
- The in_systm.h and bpf.h headers are now self-contained.
Downloads and more details on this weekend's FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 release via this mailing list post.
A third beta of FreeBSD 14.3 is expected next weekend before moving on to the FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 release and then hopefully having FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE out around 3 June. The FreeBSD release dance meanwhile should kick off in September and then be out as stable before year's end after going through several months of alphas, betas, and release candidates.