Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com news on November 21, after several release delays, FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE has now been officially released.

FreeBSD 14 is the last large version of the operating system project to support 32-bit systems. FreeBSD 15 will abandon support for 32-bit hardware platforms, but FreeBSD 15 64-bit systems will retain support for running 32-bit binaries.

First, FreeBSD 14 added a new "fwget" utility to get firmware packages, which currently have access to Intel and AMD GPU firmware.

Second, FreeBSD 14 ushered in a number of functional updates, including the latest ZFS file system support with dma replacing sendmail,OpenZFS 2.2, Kinst as the new DTrace provider, makefs added ZFS support, kernel TLS offload handling TLS 1.3 receiver unmount, initial WiFi 6 support in WPA, sh as the default shell for root users, and the updated LLVM toolchain.

It is worth noting that FreeBSD 14 for ARM64 and AMD64 now supports as many as 1024 CPU cores, compared with the previous limit of 256. FreeBSD 14 also speeds up the restart and removes many old drivers.

CTOnews.com partners can view detailed updates on the FreeBSD official website.

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