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CTOnews.com, September 11, FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 is currently available and is expected to release a stable version by the end of October, which brings many hardware support improvements and some enhancements over FreeBSD 13 series kernels.

▲ source lists.freebsd.orgCTOnews.com also learned from official sources that FreeBSD 14 is the last version to provide a 32-bit system, and FreeBSD 15 will no longer support 32-bit hardware platforms.

In terms of specific updates to ▲ source GitHub, FreeBSD 14 added initial support for WiFi6 and added a "fwget" tool to get firmware packages-initially fwget can get firmware for Intel and AMD GPUs.

Many other changes include: replacing sendmail with dma, Kinst as the new DTrace provider, makefs adding ZFS support, boottrace as a new interface to capture trace events during system startup and shutdown, kernel TLS offload handling TLS1.3 receiver unloading, sh has now become the default shell for root users, update LLVM toolchain updates, and so on.

More Beta and candidate versions will be officially released in the coming weeks, while FreeBSD 14-STABLE is expected to be released at the end of October.

Referenc

FreeBSD 14.0-BETA1 Now Available

Freebsd-src/RELNOTES at main freebsd/freebsd-src GitHub

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