FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 1 Brings OpenZFS Upgrade, Performance Fix For TCP LRO
The first beta release of the FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing.
Following last week's extra alpha release, FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 1 was announced overnight in the latest weekly snapshot for working toward this BSD operating system release due out in early December.
FreeBSD 15.0 continues shaping up to be a very significant OS update with reproducible builds and many other new features and hardware support. One of the recent notable efforts in the FreeBSD space has been to better enhance the FreeBSD on laptops support from WiFi to power management and other functionality. Plus enhancing the FreeBSD desktop experience at large and adding a KDE desktop option to the FreeBSD 15 operating system installer.
With FreeBSD 15.0-BETA1 they have moved to using the OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 file-system support. Plus there is a performance fix for network TCP Large Receive Offload (LRO), and other fixes:
Downloads and more details on the FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 1 release via FreeBSD.org.
Following last week's extra alpha release, FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 1 was announced overnight in the latest weekly snapshot for working toward this BSD operating system release due out in early December.
FreeBSD 15.0 continues shaping up to be a very significant OS update with reproducible builds and many other new features and hardware support. One of the recent notable efforts in the FreeBSD space has been to better enhance the FreeBSD on laptops support from WiFi to power management and other functionality. Plus enhancing the FreeBSD desktop experience at large and adding a KDE desktop option to the FreeBSD 15 operating system installer.
With FreeBSD 15.0-BETA1 they have moved to using the OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 file-system support. Plus there is a performance fix for network TCP Large Receive Offload (LRO), and other fixes:
- OpenZFS upgraded to 2.4.0 rc2
- Various fixes to "no-root" release building
- Various fixes to the process for building OCI container images
- Various fixes to the process for building VM and cloud images
- A performance fix for TCP LRO on some network interfaces
- A build fix for the published pkgbase-repo.tar files
- ahci no longer fails to attach if MSI-X BARs cannot be allocated
Downloads and more details on the FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 1 release via FreeBSD.org.