FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 released: Initially supports WiFi 6 and Updates LLVM tool chain
FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 released: Initially supports WiFi 6 and Updates LLVM tool chain
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FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 released: Initially supports WiFi 6 and Updates LLVM tool chain.
FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 is available this weekend, with a stable release expected by the end of October.
FreeBSD 14 brings many hardware support improvements and a number of kernel enhancements compared to the FreeBSD 13 series.
It is worth noting that FreeBSD 14 is the last version to support 32-bit systems.
Although FreeBSD 15 will no longer support 32-bit hardware platforms, 64-bit systems will retain support for running 32-bit binaries at least until FreeBSD16.
FreeBSD 14 adds a new “fwget” tool for obtaining firmware packages – initially fwget can obtain firmware for Intel and AMD GPUs. Many other changes include: replacing sendmail with dma, Kinst as a new DTrace provider, ZFS support added to makefs, boottrace becoming a new interface for capturing trace events during system startup and shutdown, kernel TLS offloading to handle TLS1.3 sink offloading, and more.
There is also initial support for WiFi6 in WPA, sh is now the default shell for root users, and the LLVM toolchain has been updated.
For additional changes please see the ongoing release notes: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/RELNOTES
More betas and release candidates will be released in the coming weeks, and FreeBSD 14-STABLE should be released before the end of October.
Related Reading:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/RELNOTES
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2023-September/001419.html
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14-Beta-1
