The second beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing as an incremental update to this BSD operating system and ahead of the feature-rich FreeBSD 15.0 due out later in 2025.

FreeBSD 14.3 is [1]aiming for release in early June . With FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 there are some WiFi fixes, working on enhancing the reproducibility of ARM64 kernel builds on the local system, and other changes:

- Multiple wifi-related bug fixes.

- A "tcp_do_segment: sent too much" KASSERT will no longer trigger under certain circumstances.

- nuageinit now supports chpasswd.

- xz has been updated to 5.8.1.

- Setting invalid VM sysctl values fails rather than causing a kernel panic.

- mountd(8) now reloads the exports(5) file properly.

- The arm64 kernel.bin file builds reproducible with respect to local.

- The in_systm.h and bpf.h headers are now self-contained.

Downloads and more details on this weekend's FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 release via [2]this mailing list post .

A third beta of FreeBSD 14.3 is expected next weekend before moving on to the FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 release and then hopefully having FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE out around 3 June. The FreeBSD release dance meanwhile should kick off in September and then be out as stable before year's end after going through several months of alphas, betas, and release candidates.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.3-Beta-1

[2] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-May/002817.html