FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 Released With Builds Now Being Properly Reproducible
([BSD] 6 Hours Ago
Reproducible Builds)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Alpha-2
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The second alpha release of the upcoming [1]FreeBSD 15 is now available for testing ahead of its planned official release in December.
As noted in the earlier alpha one announcement, there are [2]many new features coming for FreeBSD 15.0 including a KDE desktop install option from the installer, better WiFi and power management and other enhancements to benefit FreeBSD on laptops, continued efforts around reproducible builds, the latest OpenZFS file-system capabilities, and much more.
Changed over the past week for FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 include the builds now being properly reproducible and the FreeBSD 15.0 install media containing the pkgbase repositories.
Similar to Linux distributions and other platforms, [3]FreeBSD has been working on reproducible builds and zero-trust builds . With this weekend's FreeBSD 15 Alpha 2 release, the OS builds are now properly reproducibly built.
Downloads and more information pertaining to the new FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 release via [4]the mailing list announcement .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/FreeBSD+15
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Alpha-1
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Zero-Trust-Repro-Builds
[4] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003182.html
As noted in the earlier alpha one announcement, there are [2]many new features coming for FreeBSD 15.0 including a KDE desktop install option from the installer, better WiFi and power management and other enhancements to benefit FreeBSD on laptops, continued efforts around reproducible builds, the latest OpenZFS file-system capabilities, and much more.
Changed over the past week for FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 include the builds now being properly reproducible and the FreeBSD 15.0 install media containing the pkgbase repositories.
Similar to Linux distributions and other platforms, [3]FreeBSD has been working on reproducible builds and zero-trust builds . With this weekend's FreeBSD 15 Alpha 2 release, the OS builds are now properly reproducibly built.
Downloads and more information pertaining to the new FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 release via [4]the mailing list announcement .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/FreeBSD+15
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Alpha-1
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Zero-Trust-Repro-Builds
[4] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003182.html
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