FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot

In working toward the stable FreeBSD 15.1 release in early June, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 is out this weekend as the latest weekly test candidate.

FreeBSD 15.1 is bringing a number of device driver updates for newer hardware support, continued virtualization enhancements, DTrace probes support on PowerPC architectures, the sched_ule scheduler is now implemented as a scheduler instance, removal of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure build targets, and a variety of packaged software updates. One of the much anticipated features for FreeBSD 15.1 was a KDE desktop option in the installer but, unfortunately, that's been diverted to FreeBSD 15.2.

New with this week's FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 is upgrading to OpenZFS 2.4.2. OpenZFS 2.4.2 released this past week with a variety of fixes and minor enhancements.

The FreeBSD 15.1 Cloud images are also now set to run pkg upgrade on first boot for applying any necessary security updates to the base system.

This third beta of FreeBSD 15.1 also updates Kerberos and also the scripted bsdinstall installations are now using pkgbase.

FreeBSD 15.1-BETA3 downloads and more details on this development milestone can be found from the FreeBSD mailing list.

Expected next week is the FreeBSD 15.1 release candidate as the final milestone before the FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE around 2 June.