FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up to 1024 CPU Cores
FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up to 1024 CPU Cores
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FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up to 1024 CPU Cores, OpenZFS 2.2, and Introduces Fwget
November 3rd marks the stable release of FreeBSD 14.0, the latest significant version of this leading open-source BSD operating system.
The development of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE experienced a few minor delays.
This release also signifies the last version of the operating system project to include native support for 32-bit systems.
The upcoming major version, FreeBSD 15, will abandon support for 32-bit hardware platforms, while FreeBSD 15’s 64-bit systems will continue to maintain compatibility with running 32-bit executable files.
Compatibility with 32-bit executable files is expected to be supported at least until FreeBSD 16. FreeBSD 14.0 introduces a new tool called “fwget” for obtaining firmware packages. Initially, the fwget tool can retrieve firmware for Intel and AMD GPUs.
In FreeBSD 14.0, dma replaces sendmail, OpenZFS 2.2 provides the latest support for the ZFS file system, Kinst becomes the new DTrace provider, makefs adds ZFS support, boottrace becomes a new interface for capturing trace events during system startup and shutdown, kernel TLS unloading handles the receiver unloading of TLS 1.3, preliminary support for WiFi 6 in WPA, sh is now the default shell for the root user, and there are updates to the LLVM toolchain.
FreeBSD 14 on ARM64 and AMD64 now supports up to 1024 CPU cores, a significant increase from the current 256 core limit. The restart speed of FreeBSD 14 will also be faster. ISA sound card support has been removed, the new Intel QAT driver offers more features and support compared to the previous FreeBSD QAT QuickAssist Technology driver. Netflix has sponsored the development team to remove many other outdated drivers from FreeBSD.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE represents a substantial advancement for the BSD operating system running on the latest hardware, with additional improvements made in anticipation of 2024.
For more details on FreeBSD 14.0 and to download, please refer to the announcement on FreeBSD.org:
