FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Announcement
Date: December 3, 2024
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the
stable/14 branch.
Some of the highlights:
* OCI container images are now available.
* The installer now supports downloading and installing necessary
firmware packages after installing the FreeBSD base system.
* OpenZFS has been upgraded to version 2.2.6.
* OpenSSL has been upgraded to version 3.0.15.
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:
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/14.2R/relnotes/
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/14.2R/hardware/
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/14.2R/errata/
For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please
see:
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/
Dedication
The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE to the memory of
Mike Karels, who spent more than 40 years contributing to BSD and was the
Deputy Release Engineering Lead at the time of his passing.
Availability
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, aarch64,
armv7, powerpc, powerpc64, and riscv64 architectures.
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over
the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory
stick. The required files can be downloaded as described below.
SHA512 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO, memory stick, and SD card
images are included at the bottom of this message.
PGP-signed checksums for the release images are also available at:
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/14.2R/signatures/
A PGP-signed version of this announcement is available at:
* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/14.2R/announce.asc