FreeBSD 15.1 Released: Updated Wi‑Fi Drivers, Full C23 Support and More
FreeBSD 15.1 has been officially released after a two‑week delay, bringing updated user‑space packages, removal of OCI support, DTrace on PowerPC, configurable kernel scheduler, enhanced NVMe driver, Intel QuickAssist QAT 402xx support, OpenZFS updates, Linux‑based Wi‑Fi drivers, AMD64 LASS, full C23 language support, Unicode 17.0.0, and expanded architecture coverage, though KDE desktop installation is postponed to 15.2.
FreeBSD 15.1 release
FreeBSD 15.1, the latest stable release, became available after a two‑week delay.
Supported architectures: amd64, aarch64, armv7, powerpc64, powerpc64le, riscv64.
Key updates
Many user‑space packages updated.
Support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) removed.
DTrace enabled on 32‑bit PowerPC and PowerPC64LE platforms.
New tunable kern.sched.name (exposed via kern.sched) allows selection of the kernel scheduler at boot.
NVMe driver improvements.
Support added for Intel QuickAssist/QAT 402xx accelerators.
OpenZFS support refreshed.
Wi‑Fi drivers derived from Linux 7.0 tree (e.g., iwlwifi(4)) updated.
AMD64 now supports Intel Linear Address Space Separation (LASS).
Comprehensive support for the C23 version of the C language.
Unicode upgraded to version 17.0.0 with CLDR 48, adding 4,803 characters.
FreeBSD cloud images built from packaged base systems now include pkg(8) and automatically update base packages on first boot.
The release is dedicated to Peter G. Neumann for his contributions to capability‑based security and historic projects such as Multics.
KDE desktop installation is not provided in 15.1 and is deferred to the upcoming 15.2 release.
Download and detailed announcement: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/announce/
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