FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Announcement
Date: June 16, 2026
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/15 branch.
Some of the highlights:
The iwlwifi(4) and other LinuxKPI based wireless networking drivers are now based on Linux v7.0.
FreeBSD cloud images using packaged base systems now include pkg(8), and support automatic base system package updates on first boot.
A new kern.sched.name tunable allows the kernel scheduler to be selected at boot time.
Significant progress has been made towards complete support for the C23 version of the C programming language.
Unicode support has been updated to Unicode 17.0.0 and CLDR 48, adding 4,803 characters.
For a complete list of new features, supported hardware, and known problems, please see the online release notes, hardware compatibility notes, and errata list, available at:
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: