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FreeBSD 14.3 is going EOL on June 30th
The fourth point release of FreeBSD 14 was released on June 10th, 2025, to bring several security bug fixes and other general improvements that were implemented since the last point release, which was v14.2.
FreeBSD 14.3 is now reaching closer to the end of support, which has been scheduled for June 30th of this year. This means that there will be no more security updates for packages planned for the future. You will no longer be able to obtain further security updates after June 30th.
According to the official announcement from the security team, this has been confirmed, along with the urgent warning that users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest supported release as soon as possible.
The following supported releases that will be after June 30th are:
- FreeBSD v14.4: Supported until December 31st, 2026
- FreeBSD v15.0: Supported until September 30th, 2026
- FreeBSD v15.1: Supported until March 31st, 2027
If you are still running FreeBSD 14.3, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest supported release so that you can continue receiving security updates and to keep your computer secure, along with other improvements.
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FreeBSD 14.2 becomes end of life as of October 1st
On December 3rd, 2024, FreeBSD 14.2 was released to add improvements to the existing v14.x version series, including the firmware installation support that comes after the base system installation.
Nine months later, this version of FreeBSD has become out of support as of September 30th. This means that there will be no more bug fixes and security updates that are important to ensure secure operation. The official announcement can be found by pressing the button.
See announcementThe FreeBSD Security Officer, who was responsible for making this announcement, has declared end of life for this version of FreeBSD and will no longer be supported. The security team encourages users who are using this FreeBSD version to upgrade to the latest release, which is v14.3 under the releng (release engineering) branch. The announcement of the v14.3 release can be found here.
it’s crucial to upgrade systems that are still using unsupported versions of FreeBSD to ensure that they continue receiving future security and bug fixes for different packages.
#FreeBSD #FreeBSD14 #FreeBSD142 #news #Tech #Technology #update
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KDE Plasma 6 on FreeBSD 14.3 on my Lenovo ThinkPad T480:
- Intel iGPU working via i915kms ✅
- Audio working out of the box ✅
- Intel AX210 WIFI via wifibox ✅Power consumption is still worse than under Linux (3,5h vs. 5h+) but I'll try to optimize that further.
So far, I'm *very* satisfied with how well FreeBSD runs on the ThinkPad T480 :freebsd:
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FWIW...
If you migrated from 14.1-RELEASE to 14.2-RELEASE and have any Intel Graphics (sandribridge), you may get a black screen at reboot when kld_list=i915kms...
A quick fix, try uninstalling graphics/drm-61-kmod (drm-kmod-20220907_3) and install graphics/drm-515-kmod...
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#freebsd14.2
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Had #xrdp to #FreeBSD14 problem.
Screen was black.💩
Found this thread, and at the end is the solution to it. 🙏
Where the "+" sign is, add this line to the appropriate module.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/xrdp-does-not-show-the-gnome-gui.92174/
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TIL: You need to add your $USER to “operator” group in order to shutdown/reboot using wlogout.
You can also set suid bit for the programs manually but I felt adding to group was better.
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It turns out pam_xdg will set appropriate XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as needed.
When I installed this pkg for sddm login, I simply deleted my shell script and commented out xorg code which triggered it.
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In my BSD adventures, I have been running a custom kernel in an attempt to improve acpi_asus by looking at Linux kernel.
I understand not wanting to use GPL code in BSD land but that functionality makes basic things like volume control keys to work.
I am looking for functionality right now rather than code so I won’t try to upstream my changes.
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@steven The only problem I find is that the Raspberry PIs seem to trash the SD drives at a very high rate, regardless of which OS they're running, so if at all possible I move the OS off to a USB drive.
Once that's done, #FreeBSD14 is flawless.
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I finally managed to migrate over to #SDDM in #FreeBSD.
It turns out I was missing pam_xdg package. LightDM would not allow me to switch tty after logging in. SDDM is fine with it though :)
I also learned about devd and configured it for laptop lid close event. It was easier than I thought.
I need to setup auto switching to headphones. Manually changing it via pavucontrol is terrible.
btw I am looking for wifi & BT GUI to setup stuff when needed.
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Made the most stupidest possible mistake today.
I tried shrinking NTFS partition on Linux. It’s been more than 6 hours and the damn thing hasn’t finished yet.
I lost patience and cancelled it around 5 hour mark but apparently I gotta wait for “geometry for partition” thing to finish before it can be cancelled.
*insert rage meme here*
Oh btw I need the new partition so I can clone FreeBSD kernel and compile my own.🤓
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An update to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR series.
The other say I logged in lightdm and was greeted with a black screen.
When I tried running Hyprland in TTY, it crashed again.
Th log was yapping about WlBackend is null. Last time, this was due to missing XDG runtime dir env variable.
This time, it turns out the user/1001 directory is now owned by lightdm. It was previously owned by user.
The fix was to add the non-root user to lightdm group. Not sure if that’s safe.
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Okay so turns out it was an incorrect XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value that caused a lot of trouble.
The issue was, waybar fails with “Bar needs to run in Wayland” error when launched from lightdm.
It works fine when Hyprland is launched in TTY.
I got a genius idea to compare environment variables of both processes (procstat -e $PID)
In TTY mode, RUNTIME DIR was set to /run/user/$UID whereas in lightdm mode, it was /var/user/$UID
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So I have been very very unsuccessful in setting up SDDM but I got lucky with LightDM
As it turns out I still need to learn how to “enable” Wayland support.
Yesterday I learned I had to kldload amdgpu for my AMD iGPU to kick in.
This is a new journey as a FreeBSD beginner with some Linux knowledge
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Anybody know a workaround for rtw88 RTL8822CE support in #FreeBSD14 ?
I have set mem_limit=1 tunables in loader.conf, restarted and have verified it via sysctl after reboot but I still can’t use WiFi
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CW: USB Stick Intall Problem (UEFI) 24.01.1
Tried installing from a UBS stick but there seems to be an issue with UEFI with my laptop
Changing to Legacy BIOS gets it installed
The previous version had no issue with UEFITrying to install 24.01.1 BTW
First image is Neofetch from previous install of 13.2
Second image is booting the Live USB stick of 24.01.1 (FreeBSD 14)
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Installing FreeBSD 14 on AMD64 Hardware: The Hidden Secrets - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRaYKP2Za4&ab_channel=GaryHTech
@garyhtech #GaryHTech #FreeBSD #BSD #FreeBSD14 -
Now that the primary sources of ZFS data corruption on FreeBSD 14 have been fixed I upgraded my main workstation and jails to 14. I also moved from compiling ports from source to using pkg instead. I checked and found I didn't have any ports using non-standard options. That will make keeping things up-to-date much easier from here on. No major setbacks there so far except for having to use a couple older versions of things than I'd like (python, Samba) due to dependencies.
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FreeBSD14-RELEASE, A First Look! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ajbUuCsL0&ab_channel=GaryHTech
@[email protected] @[email protected] #GaryHTech #FreeBSD #FreeBSD14 #BSD #FirstLook #KDE #Thunderbird #OBS -
FREEBSD 14.0 Review :The Next Level - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNsv855iQ3I&ab_channel=Techiechap
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FreeBSD 14 has landed 😈
