The FreeBSD Q1 2026 Status Report highlights 45 entries across various teams and projects, marking the first report under a new, enforced schedule. Key updates include the FreeBSD Foundation’s sponsorship of 644 commits (555 in src, 83 in ports, and 16 in doc), with notable projects like the Alpha-Omega Beach Cleaning initiative to improve security in third-party base system software and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness Project to prepare for EU regulations. The Laptop Testing and Integration Project introduced a Python-based application to assess FreeBSD compatibility on laptops, while Sylvea released v0.2.3, a unified system management platform for FreeBSD with enhanced jail and VM support. Kernel improvements include Suspend/Resume (S0ix) for modern laptops, Hibernate (suspend-to-disk) development, and CPPC support for AMD/Intel CPUs. Architectural updates feature drm-kmod on ARM64, BananaPi-R64/R2-PRO driver development, and NXP DPAA2 networking enhancements. Cloud advancements include FreeBSD on EC2 with updated AMIs and STACKIT Cloud integration, while ports updates cover KDE Plasma 6.6.3, OpenJDK 21/25, and Wazuh 4.14.3 for security monitoring. Documentation efforts expanded Russian translations, and the FreeBSD HPC Initiative introduced ports like Slurm, OpenMPI, and UCX for high-performance computing. The report also notes team changes, such as new Release Engineering members and Ports committers.
A terminal screensaver that mimics the freebsd-update(8) tool, released as an Easter Egg for FreeBSD Day, with details on its settings and the project's move to PKGBASE.
A step-by-step guide to expanding a GELI-encrypted ZFS disk for a FreeBSD bhyve VM, covering ZVOL resizing, gpart recovery and partition expansion, GELI auto-resize, and enabling ZFS autoexpand, with notes on FreeBSD 14.1 vs 15.0 behavior.
The NetBSD project has released the fifth release candidate for 11.0, urging users to test it before the final release, with updated third-party software like OpenSSL and unbound and split ISO images for CD/R and DVD media.
This episode covers FreeBSD to OpenBSD WireGuard setups, using object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a ZFS script for labeling drives, predictable IPv6 addresses for OpenBSD VMs, and more.
A KTLS receive path flaw allows unprivileged local users to overwrite arbitrary files by sending them over a loopback connection, potentially escalating privileges, and is corrected in all supported FreeBSD branches.
Klara Systems compares ZFS and Ceph, explaining when Ceph's distributed storage is necessary and when ZFS offers a simpler, lower-latency, and more cost-effective solution for virtualization, databases, and backups.
A detailed walkthrough of setting up FreeBSD 15.1 as a daily-driver laptop OS, covering pkgbase, LinuxKPI WiFi, KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland, battery life, loader/sysctl tuning, device permissions, and hardware-specific tips for ThinkPads.
The drm-kmod port now includes Linux 6.12 LTS graphics drivers for FreeBSD 15.1+, improving compatibility with modern AMD Radeon and Intel hardware, stability, and Wayland support, with SLTS planned to 2036 via CIP.
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE is now available for amd64, aarch64, armv7, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64, featuring LinuxKPI-based wireless drivers on Linux 7.0, boot-time scheduler selection, C23 language support progress, and Unicode 17.0.0 with 4,803 new characters.
The FreeBSD Foundation has launched a 6-month, $250k project funded by Alpha Omega to engage Security Team members in using AI tools to discover and manually patch vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD kernel, base system, and ports tree, while also improving fuzzing and triage infrastructure.
This week covers FreeBSD Git Weekly updates, native inotify in FreeBSD, OpenBSD splitting syslogd into privileged and non-privileged binaries, a new FreeBSD rcd service manager daemon, Klara and TrueNAS fixing a long-standing ZFS deduplication issue, and more.
OpenBSD's syslogd now splits its privileged and non-privileged components into separate binaries, with the parent process forked and exec'd for stronger isolation and a smaller image size, and the rcctl script updated accordingly.
.NET on FreeBSD 15, Klara and TrueNAS fixing dedup, dhcpcd and unbound in FreeBSD Jails, and more.