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FreeBSD is a rapidly developing operating system. Keeping up on the latest developments can be a chore! To keep on top of things, check this page periodically. News is also announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list and the RSS feed.

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For a detailed description of past, present, and future releases, see the Release Information page.

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December 2024

November 2024

  • 23 November: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 14.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 17 November: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 9 November: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 7 November: The July to September Status Report is now available with 32 entries.

  • 2 November: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

October 2024

September 2024

  • 17 September: FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 13.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 7 September: The third Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 5 September: New committer: Jose Luis Duran (src)

August 2024

  • 31 August: The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 24 August: The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 22 August: New committer: Igor Ostapenko (src)

  • 19 August: The April to June Status Report is now available with 20 entries.

  • 17 August: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 10 August: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 3 August: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

June 2024

May 2024

March 2024

February 2024

January 2024

December 2023

November 2023

October 2023

  • 27 October: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 14.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 20 October: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 14.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 October: New committer: Michael Osipov (ports)

  • 13 October: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 14.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 6 October: The fifth BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

September 2023

  • 30 September: The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 22 September: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 September: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 8 September: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 6 September: New committer: Joel Bodenmann (ports)

July 2023

May 2023

April 2023

March 2023

  • 27 March: The fifth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 25 March: The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 20 March: Enhanced commit privileges: Lorenzo Salvadore (ports, doc)

  • 18 March: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 11 March: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 4 March: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

February 2023

  • 26 February: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 18 February: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 15 February: New committer: Cheng Cui (src)

  • 14 February: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 9 February: New committer: Robert Nagy (ports)

  • 2 February: New committer: Vladimir Druzenko (ports)

  • 2 February: New committer: Robert Clausecker (ports)

January 2023

December 2022

November 2022

  • 11 November: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 4 November: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

October 2022

August 2022

June 2022

May 2022

  • 12 May: FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 13.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 5 May: The sixth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

April 2022

  • 28 April: The fifth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 21 April: The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 14 April: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 7 April: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, and powerpcspe architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 1 April: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

March 2022

  • 24 March: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and riscv architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 23 March: Portmgr has restarted the portmgr-lurker program and has selected the first two lurkers: Luca Pizzamiglio and Stefan Eßer. They will join portmgr for the coming months and learn all about its inner workings.

  • 17 March: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, arm64, powerpc64, and powerpcspe architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 10 March: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 10 March: The October to December 2021 Status Report is now available with 19 entries.

February 2022

December 2021

November 2021

  • 18 November: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 15 November: The July to September 2021 Status Report is now available with 42 entries.

  • 11 November: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 6 November: New committer: Dries Michiels (ports)

  • 4 November: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

October 2021

  • 29 October: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 22 October: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

August 2021

July 2021

May 2021

April 2021

  • 29 April: New committer: Charlie Li (ports)

  • 21 April: New committer: Oskar Holmlund (src)

  • 13 April: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 13.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 3 April: The fifth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

March 2021

  • 29 March: The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 21 March: After the migration to Hugo/AsciiDoctor the weblate tool it's opened again. To get more information check the announcement.

  • 20 March: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 15 March: New committer: Ka Ho Ng (src)

  • 12 March: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 6 March: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

February 2021

  • 27 February: The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 20 February: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 12 February: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, armv6, armv7, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 7 February: New committer: Fernando Apesteguia Santiago (doc)

  • 6 February: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, arm64, powerpc64, powerpcspe, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

January 2021

December 2020

  • 19 December: FreeBSD src repo to be converted to git. Please see the git wiki for details.

  • 12 December: New committer: Juraj Lutter (ports)

  • 5 December: FreeBSD doc repo converted to git.

October 2020

  • 27 October: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 21 October: The July to September 2020 Status Report is now available with 35 entries.

  • 17 October: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 10 October: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 3 October: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

September 2020

  • 26 September: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and powerpcspe architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 18 September: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 12 September: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

August 2020

July 2020

June 2020

May 2020

  • 29 May: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 22 May: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 May: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 May: The FreeBSD Project is once again participating as a mentoring organization in the Google Season of Docs program. The goal of the program is to bring open source and technical writers together. Technical writers spend three months working closely with open source communities to bring their expertise to the project's documentation. The list of available tasks and contact information is available on the FreeBSD wiki.

  • 9 May: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

April 2020

March 2020

February 2020

January 2020

  • 27 January: New committer: Alfredo Dal'Ava Júnior (src)

  • 27 January: The October to December 2019 Status Report is now available.

  • 21 January: In order to make the process of translating FreeBSD's official articles and books more accessible to new contributors, the project is adopting Weblate as its web-based continuous localization platform. This tool has been in use for some months by some of our translation teams (pt_BR, es_ES and zh_CN) and due to the excellent results obtained and the maturity of the workflow adopted, we believe we are ready to open it to new collaborators. With the adoption of this new tool the translation process has become quite simple, and anyone willing to donate a few minutes to the project can contribute to it! If you are interested in contributing to the documentation project by translating official documents you can get more information at our wiki and by reading the announcement sent to freebsd-translators list.

  • 10 January: New committer: Mikaël Urankar (ports)

  • 2 January: New committer: Loïc Bartoletti (ports)

November 2019

October 2019

  • 18 October: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 11 October: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 11 October: New committer: Alex Samorukov (ports)

  • 4 October: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

September 2019

  • 29 September: New committer: Mateusz Piotrowski (doc)

  • 28 September: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 26 September: New committer: Pawel Biernacki (src)

  • 20 September: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 15 September: New committer: Dmitri Goutnik (ports)

  • 10 September: New committer: Stephen Gregoratto (src). Working to improve the FreeBSD Project's user manuals for Google's Season of Docs

August 2019

July 2019

  • 16 July: Due to circumstances beyond our control, we need to change the outgoing SMTP server address for FreeBSD.org email. We are aware that there are going to be challenges due to SMTP sender reputation systems. Please see this announcement for additional information.

  • 9 July: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

June 2019

  • 28 June: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 21 June: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 14 June: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 7 June: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 4 June: The January to March 2019 Status Report is now available.

May 2019

  • 31 May: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 31 May: New committer: Brandon Bergren (src)

  • 29 May: New committer: Chuck Silvers (src)

  • 28 May: New committer: D Scott Phillips (src)

  • 24 May: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 May: New committer: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado (docs, Spanish translator)

April 2019

  • 30 April: New committer: Doug Moore (src)

  • 28 April: FreeBSD is testing a new approach to pkgbase. See the CFT FreeBSD pkg base message for additional details.

  • 27 April: The FreeBSD 2019 Community Survey is now available (update: closed on 2019-05-13). Please feel free to share the survey URL with your employer, co-workers, friends, or any other community members interested in FreeBSD. Survey closes midnight May 13 UTC (Monday 5pm PDT).

  • 19 April: FreeBSD is testing a new upstream for its ZFS implementation, ZFS on Linux. Images for FreeBSD 12-STABLE and 13-CURRENT images are now available for testing FreeBSD + ZoL (ZFS on Linux). Please see the CFT FreeBSD + ZoL for testing details.

  • 14 April: New committer: Piotr Kubaj (ports)

  • 14 April: Enhanced commit privileges: Pedro Giffuni (ports, src)

March 2019

February 2019

January 2019

December 2018

  • 24 December: The January to September 2018 Status Report is now available.

  • 11 December: FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.0. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 11 December: FreeBSD support was recently added to the Cirrus CI system. Cirrus CI makes your development cycle fast, efficient, and secure by leveraging modern cloud technologies. Cirrus CI scales with your team and makes shipping software faster and cheaper. Follow the FreeBSD Virtual Machines guide to find out more.

  • 1 December: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

November 2018

  • 25 November: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 17 November: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 10 November: The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 3 November: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

October 2018

  • 27 October: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 20 October: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 October: New committer: Thomas Munro (src)

  • 9 October: New committer: Yuri Pankov (src)

  • 8 October: New committer: Vinícius Zavam (ports)

  • 1 October: New committer: Alexandre C. Guimaraes (ports)

September 2018

August 2018

  • 9 August: Enhanced commit privileges: Li-Wen Hsu (ports, src)

July 2018

  • 16 July: New committer: John Hixson (ports)

  • 4 July: Active committers to the project have elected your tenth FreeBSD Core Team. For details, refer to the official announcement.

June 2018

  • 30 June: New committer: Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen (ports)

  • 27 June: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 27 June: New committer: Ben Widawsky (src)

  • 19 June: On June 19, 1993 the name FreeBSD was officially agreed on and has been used ever since. Find out more about how to celebrate this important day with us.

  • 16 June: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 June: New committer: Mateusz Piotrowski (ports)

  • 9 June: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 8 June: Portions of the FreeBSD cluster will be offline Saturday, June 9th for an extended maintenance window for electrical work. Services will be affected, most notably mailing list traffic and a portion of our web services. The maintenance window begins June 9th at 11:00 UTC (04:00 US-Pacific) and extends though 20:00 UTC (13:00 US-Pacific)

  • 2 June: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

May 2018

  • 26 May: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 22 May: New committer: Breno Leitao (src)

  • 21 May: New committer: Leandro Lupori (src)

  • 19 May: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 15 May: New committer: Gleb Popov (ports)

  • 12 May: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

April 2018

March 2018

February 2018

  • 14 February: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2018 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's fourteenth year in the program, having mentored over 210 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2017. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

  • 8 February: New committer: Slava Shwartsman (src)

January 2018

  • 25 January: New committer: Jeb Cramer (src)

  • 4 January: About the Meltdown and Spectre attacks: FreeBSD was made aware of the problems in late December 2017. We're working with CPU vendors and the published papers on these attacks to mitigate them on FreeBSD. Due to the fundamental nature of the attacks, no estimate is yet available for the publication date of patches.

December 2017

November 2017

October 2017

September 2017

  • 27 September: The April to June 2017 Status Report is now available.

  • 23 September: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 19 September: New committer: Eugene Grosbein (src)

  • 18 September: New committer: Guangyuan Yang (doc)

  • 17 September: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 11 September: New committer: Craig Leres (ports)

  • 9 September: New committer: Dave Cottlehuber (ports)

  • 9 September: The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 8 September: New committer: Adriaan de Groot (ports)

  • 6 September: New committer: Chuck Tuffli (src)

  • 2 September: New committer: Stephen Hurd (src)

  • 2 September: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 2 September: New committer: Ilya Bakulin (src)

August 2017

  • 28 August: New committer: Fedor Uporov (src)

  • 26 August: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 25 August: New committer: Luca Pizzamiglio (ports)

  • 19 August: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

July 2017

  • 26 July: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 18 July: New committer: Marcin Wojtas (src)

  • 15 July: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 12 July: New committer: Matt Joras (src)

  • 8 July: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 1 July: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

June 2017

  • 24 June: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 20 June: New committer: Kyle Evans (src)

  • 17 June: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 10 June: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 7 June: New committer: Ryan Libby (src)

May 2017

April 2017

March 2017

February 2017

  • 27 February: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2017 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's thirteenth year in the program, having mentored over 200 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2016. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

  • 13 February: The October to December 2016 Status Report is now available.

  • 10 February: New committer: Mahdi Mokhtari (ports)

  • 8 February: New committer: Tobias Kortkamp (ports)

January 2017

December 2016

November 2016

October 2016

September 2016

  • 28 September: The final 11.0-RELEASE is going to be rebuilt in order to address a few last-minute items that were discovered after the release tag. Please see the official announcement from the Release Engineering team for more information.

  • 17 September: New committer: Ruey-Cherng Yu (doc)

  • 17 September: New committer: Joseph Mingrone (ports)

  • 17 September: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 September: New committer: Sevan Janiyan (doc)

August 2016

  • 25 August: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 13 August: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 10 August: New committer: Toomas Soome (src)

  • 10 August: The FreeBSD Core Team has released a statement about the recent freebsd-update and related vulnerabilities.

  • 6 August: The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

July 2016

  • 30 July: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 27 July: The April to June 2016 Status Report is now available.

  • 24 July: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 19 July: New committer: Michael Zhilin (src)

  • 19 July: New committer: Imre Vadasz (src)

  • 18 July: New committer: Stephen J. Kiernan (src)

  • 11 July: New committer: Carlos J. Puga Medina (ports)

  • 10 July: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 6 July: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2016 Core Team election. The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every two years since 2000. The FreeBSD Core Team is glad to announce that Matthew Seaman will continue the role of Core Team Secretary. More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement.

  • 6 July: New committer: Tobias C. Berner (ports)

  • 1 July: New committer: Eric Badger (src)

June 2016

May 2016

April 2016

March 2016

  • 20 March: The third Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 13 March: The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 5 March: The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 10.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 1 March: New committer: Christoph Moench-Tegeder (ports)

  • 1 March: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2016 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's twelfth year in the program, having mentored over 180 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2015. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

February 2016

January 2016

  • 18 January: New committer: Wojciech Macek (src)

  • 6 January: The FreeBSD Foundation has released its initial statement about harassment in the FreeBSD community.

  • 3 January: The FreeBSD Core team has released an Initial Statement about harassment in the FreeBSD Community

December 2015

November 2015

October 2015

September 2015

August 2015

  • 13 August: FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 10.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 8 August: Enhanced commit privileges: Marcelo Araujo (ports, src)

  • 7 August: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 1 August: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

July 2015

  • 30 July: Enhanced commit privileges: Allan Jude (src)

  • 27 July: New committer: Jason Unovitch (ports)

  • 26 July: The April–June, 2015 Status Report is now available.

  • 24 July: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 17 July: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 11 July: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 5 July: New committer: Conrad Meyer (src)

June 2015

  • 26 June: A new article, FreeBSD Support for Leap Seconds, gives a quick overview of leap second handling. The next leap second will occur at 2015-Jun-30 23:59:60 UTC.

May 2015

April 2015

March 2015

February 2015

  • 11 February: New committer: Wei Hu (src)

January 2015

December 2014

November 2014

  • 14 November: FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 10.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 2 November: The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 2 November: FreeBSD 1.0, the first official release of FreeBSD was announced 21 years ago today, on November 2nd, 1993. See the original announcement here.

October 2014

  • 23 October: The third RC build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 23 October: New committer: Björn Heidotting (doc)

  • 14 October: The July–September, 2014 Status Report is now available.

  • 13 October: The second RC build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 12 October: New committer: Andrew Rybchenko (src)

  • 4 October: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

September 2014

  • 28 September: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 24 September: New committer: Julien Charbon (src)

  • 21 September: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 14 September: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 10.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 9 September: New committer: Dominic Fandrey (ports)

August 2014

  • 21 August: It all started with this commit from Jordan Hubbard on August 21, 1994: "Commit my new ports make macros. Still not 100% complete yet by any means but fairly usable at this stage." A video was prepared to celebrate the event!

  • 14 August: New committer: Alonso Schaich (ports)

  • 10 August: New committer: Dan Langille (ports)

July 2014

  • 31 July: We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2014 Semi-Annual Newsletter! This is a chance for you to read about what we are doing to help make FreeBSD the best operating system available. Read about funded development projects to improve FreeBSD , sponsored conferences, developer and vendor summits to create face-to-face opportunities, research, how we are doing on our fundraising efforts, and so much more! The 2014 semi-annual newsletter is available online here.

  • 27 July: New committer: Ngie Cooper (src)

  • 24 July: The April-June, 2014 Status Report is now available with 24 entries.

  • 16 July: To facilitate the upgrade process from FreeBSD 9.1 and 9.2 to FreeBSD 9.3, the EoL date for FreeBSD 9.2 has been pushed back to December 31, 2014.

  • 16 July: FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.3. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 9 July: The FreeBSD Core Team is glad to announce that Matthew Seaman has assumed the role of Core Team Secretary.

  • 9 July: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2014 Core Team election. The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every two years since 2000. More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement.

  • 6 July: The third RC build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 4 July: For people needing WITH_NEW_XORG, an alternate pkg(8) repository is now online. It contains a subset of packages affected by this knob. Please see the announce mail for more details.

June 2014

  • 28 June: The second RC build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 21 June: The first RC build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 17 June: New committer: Bartek Rutkowski (ports)

  • 14 June: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 11 June: New committer: Stephen Hurd (ports)

  • 7 June: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 1 June: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

May 2014

April 2014

March 2014

  • 11 March: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2014 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's tenth year in the program, having mentored over 160 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2013. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

February 2014

  • 10 February: We are pleased to announce the availability of the FreeBSD Journal! It is the new online Journal, that the FreeBSD Foundation is publishing, that is all about FreeBSD. Click here to find out how to get the first issue that is focused on FreeBSD 10.

January 2014

December 2013

  • 26 December: The third RC build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 18 December: Enhanced commit privileges: Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (doc, src)

  • 16 December: New committer: Jonathan Chu (ports)

  • 16 December: Enhanced commit privileges: Bryan Drewery (ports, src)

  • 16 December: The second RC build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 9 December: The first RC build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 9 December: A special status report on the EuroBSDcon 2013 FreeBSD Developer Summit is now available with 13 entries.

  • 3 December: The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

November 2013

October 2013

  • 30 October: Official binary packages are now available for Pkg for FreeBSD 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0 and head. See the announcement for more information.

  • 28 October: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 20 October: The July-September, 2013 Status Report is now available with 30 entries.

  • 14 October: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 9 October: New committer: Eric Davis (src)

  • 7 October: The fifth ALPHA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

September 2013

  • 30 September: FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 29 September: The fourth ALPHA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 23 September: New committer: Danilo Egêa Gondolfo (ports)

  • 18 September: The second ALPHA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 13 September: The first ALPHA build for the FreeBSD -10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 12 September: The fourth RC build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 2 September: New committer: Ruslan Bukin (src)

  • 2 September: New committer: Zbigniew Bodek (src)

August 2013

  • 26 August: The third RC build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 16 August: The second RC build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 6 August: We are pleased to announce the publication of our 2013 Semi-Annual Newsletter! This is a chance for you to read about what we are doing to help make FreeBSD the best operating system available. Read about funded development projects to improve FreeBSD , sponsored conferences, developer and vendor summits to create face-to-face opportunities, research, how we are doing on our fundraising efforts, and so much more! The 2013 semi-annual newsletter is available online here.

  • 5 August: The first RC build for the FreeBSD -9.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

July 2013

June 2013

  • 25 June: New committer: Mark Felder (ports)

  • 19 June: FreeBSD celebrated its 20th birthday today. On June 19, 1993, Jordan Hubbard, Rod Grimes, and David Greenman announced to the world the creation of their new fork of the BSD 4.3 operating system. FreeBSD was derived from the 386BSD 0.1 release from Bill and Lynne Jolitz with its 1.0 release in Nov 1993. Its stated goals were to create a fast, stable, reliable server OS for i386 systems. Since then, it has become the backbone of countless products and has grown to supporting 64bit computing, embedded devices, and desktop users.

  • 11 June: New committer: Veniamin Gvozdikov (ports)

  • 7 June: FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes (detailed version) and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 8.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 4 June: Enhanced commit privileges: Glen Barber (doc, ports, src)

May 2013

  • 27 May: Enhanced commit privileges: Chris Rees (doc, ports)

  • 14 May: Six months have passed since the November security incident which brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are pleased to announce that all services are now restored. Read the official announcement here.

  • 12 May: The January to March 2013 Status Report is now available with 31 entries.

  • 9 May: The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste's new role as the Foundation's part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation's board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position. Read more...

  • 8 May: The third RC build for the FreeBSD -8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

April 2013

  • 29 April: The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierała has joined as its second member of technical staff. This is a continuation of the Foundation's plan to invest in staff in 2013. Read more...

  • 24 April: New committer: Alan Somers (src)

  • 24 April: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google's 2013 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's ninth year in the program, having mentored over 150 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2012. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

  • 22 April: The second RC build for the FreeBSD -8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 18 April: Enhanced commit privileges: Cy Schubert (src, ports)

  • 12 April: New committer: Hiren Panchasara (src)

  • 10 April: The first RC build for the FreeBSD -8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 3 April: Enhanced commit privileges: Antoine Brodin (src, ports)

  • 1 April: New committer: William Grzybowski (ports)

March 2013

  • 27 March: Enhanced commit privileges: Tijl Coosemans (src, ports)

  • 22 March: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 14 March: The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Konstantin Belousov has been hired as its first full-time member of technical staff, a key milestone of the Foundation's investment in staff for 2013. Read more...

  • 12 March: New member for the Ports Management team: Bryan Drewery

  • 3 March: The October to December 2012 Status Report is now available with 27 entries.

  • 3 March: The July to September 2012 Status Report is now available with 12 entries.

February 2013

January 2013

  • 23 January: New committer: Achim Leubner (src)

  • 22 January: New committer: Dru Lavigne (doc)

  • 16 January: New committer: Carl Delsey (src)

  • 15 January: Enhanced commit privileges: René Ladan (ports, full doc/www)

  • 14 January: New committer: David Naylor (ports)

  • 13 January: The April-June, 2012 Status Report is now available with 17 entries.

  • 10 January: The development of FreeBSD ports is done in Subversion nowadays. By February 28th 2013, the FreeBSD ports tree will no longer be exported to CVS. Therefore ports tree updates via CVS, CVSup or csup(1) will no longer be available after that date. All users who use CVS, CVSup or csup(1) to update the ports tree are encouraged to switch to portsnap(8) or for users which need more control over their ports collection checkout, use Subversion directly. More information are available in the announcement mail on the FreeBSD ports announce mailing list. A migration guide from CVSup or csup(1) to portsnap(8) is also available in the FreeBSD Handbook.

  • 8 January: We are excited to share our next story for our Faces of FreeBSD Series. This is a chance for us to spotlight different people who contribute to FreeBSD and have received funding from us to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for FreeBSD. Let us introduce you to Thomas Abthorpe. We helped him attend BSDCan 2009, 2011, and 2012 by helping with his travel expenses. Read his story here.

  • 7 January: New committer: Ian Lepore (src)

December 2012

  • 31 December: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes (detailed version) and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 9.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 24 December: New committer: Kubilay Kocak (ports)

  • 20 December: We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation's 2012 End-of-Year Newsletter.

  • 18 December: New committer: Mark Johnston (src)

  • 18 December: The PC-BSD Team announces the availablilty of PC-BSD 9.1.

  • 18 December: New committer: Steven Hartland (src)

  • 17 December: We are excited to share our next story for our Faces of FreeBSD Series. This is a chance for us to spotlight different people who contribute to FreeBSD and have received funding from us to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for FreeBSD. Let us introduce you to Dan Langille. We helped him by sponsoring BSDCan since 2006. Read his story here.

  • 12 December: Astute readers of our blog know that The FreeBSD Foundation's annual year-end fundraising drive began last week. Every year over 50% of our donations arrive during this campaign. Read more...

  • 10 December: Are you aware of the tangible benefits derived from our support of the FreeBSD community? In conjunction with our year-end fundraising drive we are going to be spotlighting different people on our website, blog, and Facebook page who have received funding to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for FreeBSD. Read more...

  • 5 December: Your donations have helped make FreeBSD the best OS available! By investing in The FreeBSD Foundation you have helped us keep FreeBSD a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system. Thanks to people like you, the FreeBSD Foundation has been proudly supporting the FreeBSD Project and community for 12 years now. Read more...

  • 5 December: The FreeBSD Project has enabled Google Analytics to collect anonymised statistics on web site use. More information can be found in the official announcement.

November 2012

  • 26 November: New committer: Takuya ASADA (src)

  • 25 November: New committer: Barbara Guida (ports)

  • 17 November: On Sunday 11th of November, an intrusion was detected on two machines within the FreeBSD.org cluster. We have found no evidence of any modifications that would put any end user at risk. However, we do urge all users to read the report available at https://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html and decide on any required actions themselves.

  • 5 November: New committer: Bryan Venteicher (src)

  • 4 November: New committer: Grzegorz Blach (ports)

  • 3 November: The third RC build for the FreeBSD -9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, sparc64, and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

October 2012

  • 24 October: Enhanced commit privileges: Erwin Lansing (src, ports)

  • 23 October: New committer: Simon J. Gerraty (src)

  • 20 October: Enhanced commit privileges: Eitan Adler (src, ports, doc)

  • 19 October: New member for the Ports Management team: Bernhard Fröhlich.

  • 10 October: The second RC build for the FreeBSD -9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

September 2012

August 2012

  • 23 August: The first RC build for the FreeBSD -9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 21 August: New committer: Andrey Zonov (src)

  • 1 August: New committer: Bryan Drewery (ports)

July 2012

  • 24 July: The FreeBSD Core Team is glad to announce that Gábor Páli has assumed the role of Core Team Secretary.

  • 16 July: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 11 July: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2012 Core Team election. The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every two years since 2000. More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement.

  • 3 July: New committer: Niclas Zeising (doc/www, ports)

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December 2011

  • 16 December: New committer: Jason Helfman (ports)

  • 9 December: The third (and probably last) RC build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility.

  • 8 December: New committer: Pedro Giffuni (src)

  • 2 December: New member for the Ports Management team: Beat Gätzi

November 2011

  • 30 November: New committer: Justin Hibbits (src)

  • 17 November: The second RC build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility.

  • 12 November: New committer: Michael Scheidell (ports)

  • 11 November: New committer: David Chisnall (src)

  • 9 November: New committer: Ruslan Makhmatkhanov (ports)

  • 8 November: The July-September, 2011 Status Report is now available with 28 entries.

October 2011

  • 23 October: The first RC build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems. Alternatively, users upgrading existing systems may now do so using the freebsd-update(8) utility.

  • 6 October: New committer: Alexander V. Chernikov (src)

September 2011

  • 28 September: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems.

  • 27 September: New committer: Jakub Klama (src)

  • 19 September: New committer: Gleb Kurtsou (src)

  • 18 September: New committer: Robert Millan (src)

  • 14 September: New committer: Warren Block (doc/www)

  • 14 September: The April-June, 2011 Status Report is now available with 36 entries.

  • 13 September: New committer: Carlo Strub (ports)

  • 7 September: The second BETA build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems.

August 2011

  • 22 August: New committer: Raphael Kubo da Costa (ports)

  • 17 August: New committer: Eitan Adler (ports)

  • 9 August: The FreeBSD Foundation has published their first Semi-Annual 2011 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the FreeBSD Project and community.

  • 1 August: The first test build for the FreeBSD -9.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the architectures amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. One of the many new features in 9.0 we would like to be tested is the new installer, so we encourage our users to do fresh installation on test systems.

July 2011

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April 2011

  • 27 April: The January-March, 2011 Status Report is now available with 34 entries.

March 2011

  • 29 March: New committer: Artem Belevich (src)

  • 27 March: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation In Google's 2011 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project's seventh year in the program, having mentored over 100 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2010. Past successful projects have included improvements to Linux ABI emulation, NFSv4 ACLs, TCP regression testing, FUSE file system support, and countless other projects. Many students go on to become FreeBSD developers, as well as participating in FreeBSD developer events around the world through continuing support from the FreeBSD Foundation. Prospective participants are invited to apply; more information is available, including proposal and deadline information, on the FreeBSD Summer Projects page.

  • 18 March: New committer: Sofian Brabez (ports)

  • 13 March: New committer: Pawel Pekala (ports)

  • 10 March: The FreeBSD Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Thomas Abthorpe as a full voting member.

  • 5 March: New committer: Steven G. Kargl (src)

February 2011

  • 24 February: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 8.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 24 February: FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 18 February: Enhanced commit privileges: Martin Wilke (src, ports, doc)

  • 3 February: The third (and probably last) Release Candidate builds for the FreeBSD -7.4/8.2 release cycles are now available. For 8.2-RC3 the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures are available. For 7.4-RC3 the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available. ISO images for these architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about these releases.

January 2011

  • 25 January: The October-December, 2010 Status Report is now available with 37 entries.

  • 23 January: The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -7.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release.

  • 16 January: The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -8.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release.

December 2010

  • 27 December: The first Release Candidate builds for the FreeBSD -7.4/8.2 release cycles are now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about these releases.

  • 16 December: The FreeBSD Foundation has published their End-of-Year newsletter which summarizes what they have done in 2010 to help the FreeBSD Project and community.

  • 11 December: The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD -7.4/8.2 release cycles is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 7 December: New committer: Florian Smeets (ports)

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July 2010

  • 27 July: The FreeBSD Foundation has published their Semi-Annual July 2010 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the FreeBSD Project and community.

  • 27 July: New committer: Baptiste Daroussin (ports)

  • 23 July: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 8.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

  • 22 July: The April-June, 2010 Status Report is now available with 47 entries.

  • 21 July: New committer: Andrew Turner (src)

  • 20 July: PC-BSD 8.1 has been released. PC-BSD is a successful desktop operating system based on FreeBSD that focuses on providing an easy to use desktop system for casual computer users. A list of new features/updates since the last version can be found here. The new release can be downloaded or purchased on DVD.

  • 17 July: New committer: Tijl Coosemans (src)

  • 15 July: New committer: Joseph S. Atkinson (ports)

  • 14 July: The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2010 Core Team election. The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, etc...), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by FreeBSD developers every 2 years since 2000. More information about the election (together with a list of the new members of the Core Team) can be found in the official announcement.

  • 2 July: The second (and most likely final) Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -8.1 release cycle is now available. CD ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release.

June 2010

May 2010

  • 29 May: The first of the test builds for the FreeBSD -8.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 24 May: The FreeBSD Project again received many high quality applications from students participating in Google's Summer of Code program. This year 18 student proposals to work with the FreeBSD Project were accepted as part of this program. For those with projects that were not accepted this year, we'd like to note that the FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students so they can learn more about operating system development through our normal community mailing lists and development forums. Please read the official announcement for more information. The complete list of student projects selected for funding can be found in the FreeBSD Summer of Code wiki. Coding started on May 24, so please join us in welcoming the 18 new students to our community.

  • 19 May: New committer: Jayachandran C. (src)

April 2010

March 2010

February 2010

  • 22 February: PC-BSD 8.0 has been released. PC-BSD is a successful desktop operating system based on FreeBSD that focuses on providing an easy to use desktop system for casual computer users. A list of new features/updates since the last version can be found here. The new release can be downloaded or purchased on DVD.

  • 15 February: The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD -7.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

  • 12 February: Enhanced commit privileges: Benedict Reuschling (full doc/www)

  • 6 February: New committer: Bernhard Schmidt (src)

  • 2 February: Gábor Kövesdán participated in Google Summer of Code 2008/2009 and for his work he has been given commit access to the source code. His first pieces of work will be bringing in the result of his summer work into the tree.

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