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FreeBSD 14.4 Released For Those Not Yet Ready To Move To FreeBSD 15

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 9 March 2026 at 08:30 PM EDT. 6 Comments
FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that debuted as stable last year.

FreeBSD 14.4 backports various improvements and fixes to the FreeBSD 14 series for those still planning to use this release branch for a while. FreeBSD 14.4 is bringing a number of application updates, such as minor updates to OpenSSL and OpenZFS and XZ. FreeBSD 14.4 also includes new hardware support coming thanks to various device driver changes such as for supporting the Fujitsu RAID Controller SAS D3116 controllers, NVMe support on Google Compute C4 machines, Intel Ethernet E610 NIC support, and ACPI support for the Intel IWLWIFI driver.

FreeBSD 14.4 also adds the 9P file-system support for use with Bhyve VirtIO-9P devices as a nice virtualization enhancement. There is also a fix to prevent hangs on AMD systems with recent Microsoft Windows guests when using the Bhyve hypervisor.

More details on the many FreeBSD 14.4 changes via the release notes.

FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE downloads and more details on today's official release via FreeBSD.org.

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