FreeBSD 15.0 is now available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-December/000213.html

37•cperciva•2mo ago

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znpy•2mo ago

Weird to see a release candidate version of openzfs being used for the stable release of freebsd.

cperciva•2mo ago

We wouldn't do it with anything else, but FreeBSD has a special relationship with OpenZFS.

znpy•2mo ago

Hey, thanks for chiming in.

Can you elaborate a bit further?

I absolutely do not mean to be inquisitive, but what does the special relationship means/brings in term of stability?

cperciva•2mo ago

Well, most "upstreams" the process looks like "they do a release, then we start testing the code, and after a few months we're comfortable enough for it to be in a FreeBSD release". But with ZFS, "they" and "we" largely overlap so all the ZFS code is being tested on FreeBSD from the start and we're not waiting for them to do a release first.

In terms of stability: OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4 has had far more testing on FreeBSD than most of the "release" versions of contrib code shipped in 15.0.

znpy•2mo ago

> In terms of stability: OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4 has had far more testing on FreeBSD than most of the "release" versions of contrib code shipped in 15.0.

I see, thanks.

I guess I'll have to trust your judgement on this :)

ggeorg•2mo ago

* The FreeBSD "base" system can now be installed and managed using the pkg(8) package manager.

This is huge! No more freebsd-update! Thank you for the hard work! Can't wait to test this...

Gud•2mo ago

So is this the year of the FreeBSD desktop? Finally some decent WiFi support

cf100clunk•2mo ago

On a FreeBSD 14.3 RPI4 box with an Internet connection but with only minor customization, upgrading was simple:

1. freebsd-update -r 15.0-RELEASE upgrade

2. freebsd-update install # (first of 2 runs, for upgrading system components)

3. shutdown -r now

4. freebsd-update install # (second of 2 runs, for userland components)

5. pkg bootstrap -f # (update pkg utility if/as needed)

6. pkg upgrade

7. profit!

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FreeBSD 15.0 is now available

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