FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 Released With Release Building Improvements, New "Blocklist"
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Beta-2
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FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 is out as the newest weekly test release of [1]FreeBSD working its way toward a stable release in early December.
Similar to prior development builds of FreeBSD 15.0 [2]improving their release build process , FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 brings more fixes to their release-building process.
Plus there are a number of pkgbase-related fixes and improvements in FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2.
The FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 announcement also notes its Blocklist is updated, which was formerly known as Blacklist. This blacklist/blocklist context is around FreeBSD's blacklistd daemon for blocking and releasing ports on-demand to avoid denial of service abuse. For port blocking, blocklist in this context does arguably make more sense than blacklist. My only surprise is that it's a rather late change in the cycle especially with warnings emitted for old usage.
Per [3]this commit , FreeBSD has renamed all the "blacklist" elements to blocklist. The old blacklist ones will still work but with emitting warnings on usage.
A summary of changes since BETA1 includes:
- Many fixes to the release-building process.
- Many pkgbase-related fixes and adjustments.
- Blocklist (formerly known as blacklist) updated to 2025-04-28.
- SO_SNDTIMO now works on AF_LOCAL sockets.
- More useful output from vmstat -o.
More details and downloads for FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 via the [4]release announcement .
Up next is the FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 release next weekend. Four betas in total followed by at least three release candidates are expected for FreeBSD 15.0. If all goes well FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE will be out on 2 December.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/FreeBSD+15
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Alpha-5
[3] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/2b6eb65612539f7a9ee94899b310d18e3ae894a3#diff-c076fb3c32b4f9129348c73863d58409b17dcb8715035e8adb559b0af97b54aa
[4] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003466.html
Similar to prior development builds of FreeBSD 15.0 [2]improving their release build process , FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 brings more fixes to their release-building process.
Plus there are a number of pkgbase-related fixes and improvements in FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2.
The FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 announcement also notes its Blocklist is updated, which was formerly known as Blacklist. This blacklist/blocklist context is around FreeBSD's blacklistd daemon for blocking and releasing ports on-demand to avoid denial of service abuse. For port blocking, blocklist in this context does arguably make more sense than blacklist. My only surprise is that it's a rather late change in the cycle especially with warnings emitted for old usage.
Per [3]this commit , FreeBSD has renamed all the "blacklist" elements to blocklist. The old blacklist ones will still work but with emitting warnings on usage.
A summary of changes since BETA1 includes:
- Many fixes to the release-building process.
- Many pkgbase-related fixes and adjustments.
- Blocklist (formerly known as blacklist) updated to 2025-04-28.
- SO_SNDTIMO now works on AF_LOCAL sockets.
- More useful output from vmstat -o.
More details and downloads for FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 via the [4]release announcement .
Up next is the FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 release next weekend. Four betas in total followed by at least three release candidates are expected for FreeBSD 15.0. If all goes well FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE will be out on 2 December.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/FreeBSD+15
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Alpha-5
[3] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/2b6eb65612539f7a9ee94899b310d18e3ae894a3#diff-c076fb3c32b4f9129348c73863d58409b17dcb8715035e8adb559b0af97b54aa
[4] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003466.html