FreeBSD15.0 RELEASE Announcement
Date: December 2, 2025
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/15 branch.
The FreeBSD “base” system can now be installed and managed using the pkg(8) package manager (see “Packaged base system” below).
The FreeBSD 15.0 release artifacts (install images, VM images, etc.) were all generated without requiring root privilege.
FreeBSD now has a native inotify implementation, simplifying directory watching and software porting.
OpenZFS has been upgraded to 2.4.0-rc4.
OpenSSL has been upgraded to the latest long-term support (LTS) version, 3.5.4, which includes support for QUIC and now standardized quantum-resistant algorithms, ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA.
OpenSSH has been upgraded to 10.0p2 which includes support for quantum-resistant key agreement by default.
For a complete list of new features, supported hardware, and known problems, please see the online release notes.