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FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 Released With Builds Now Being Properly Reproducible

([BSD] 6 Hours Ago Reproducible Builds)


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


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