Download FreeBSD 14.0

The members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team have released version 14.0 of FreeBSD. FreeBSD was created in 1993 and is developed as a whole, unlike Linux, for example, where the kernel is maintained by one group of developers and certain applications by others. Because of this, FreeBSD is generally considered more stable and robust than several other operating systems. Extensive release notes can be found here this page are being found. These are briefly the most important changes:

FreeBSD 14.0 RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights:

• OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.5p1.
• OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.12, a major upgrade from OpenSSL 1.1.1t in FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE.
• The bhyve hypervisor now supports TPM and GPU passthrough.
• FreeBSD supports up to 1024 cores on the amd64 and arm64 platforms.
• ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.2, providing significant performance improvements.
• It is now possible to perform background filesystem checks on UFS file systems running with journaled soft updates.
• Experimental ZFS images are now available for AWS and Azure.
• The default congestion control mechanism for TCP is now CUBIC.
• And much more…

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

• https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/
• https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/14.0R/errata/