{"id":163658,"date":"2026-03-10T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/reliz-freebsd-14-4"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:11:58","slug":"reliz-freebsd-14-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/reliz-freebsd-14-4","title":{"rendered":"FreeBSD 14.4 Release","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nine months of development, the release of FreeBSD 14.4 has been finalized. Installation images have been prepared for amd64, i386, aarch64, armv7, powerpc, powerpc64, and riscv64 architectures. Additionally, builds for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and cloud environments Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Vagrant have been prepared.          <\/p>\n<p>The next FreeBSD 14.5 update is scheduled for September 2026. Support for the current release FreeBSD 14.4 will continue until December 31, 2026, and for the previous release FreeBSD 14.3 until June 30, 2026. In general, the FreeBSD 14 branch will be supported until November 30, 2028, and the FreeBSD 13.x branch until April 30, 2026. Meanwhile, the FreeBSD 15 branch is under development, with the next release (15.1) planned for June 2, 2026.         <\/p>\n<p>Key changes in FreeBSD 14.4:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"l\"> A new utility, sndctl, has been added to manage the settings of sound cards.\n<li class=\"l\"> The swapon utility has added support for encrypted swap files, which can be specified in fstab using md-devices with the suffix '.eli'.\n<li class=\"l\"> The nuageinit utility, responsible for initialization, <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/vps\/\" title=\"of virtual machines\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">of virtual machines<\/a>, added support for cloud-init, network configuration, and package management. To ensure compatibility with cloud-init, commands 'runcmd', 'packages', 'fqdn', 'hostname', 'sudo', 'write_files', 'nameservers', 'tzsetup', and 'doas' have been added. A complete YAML format parser has been implemented. Logging has been enabled. Commands 'chpasswd', 'wakeonlan', 'set-name', and 'match.driver' have been realized.\n<li class=\"l\"> The console font spleen has been updated to version 2.2.0 and expanded with additional symbols (long dash, short dash, hyphen, angle brackets, white square, cross, and double cross). Character alignment on high pixel density screens has been improved. The gallant console font, which now includes over 4300 glyphs, has been enhanced to support Cyrillic characters and sets featuring mathematical symbols, arrows, currencies, and frames.\n<li class=\"l\"> The package includes the 9P file system (p9fs), which can be used with virtio-9p devices and the Bhyve hypervisor to provide access from virtual machines to the contents of the host environment's file system. To load the driver, the configuration 'virtio_p9fs_load=YES' should be used in loader.conf.\n<li class=\"l\"> The tarfs filesystem has been updated to support files larger than 4 GB.\n<li class=\"l\"> In the unionfs and nullfs file systems, the verification of the root vnode has been strengthened when processing paths with '..' to block potential vulnerabilities that allow exiting the root directory of the jail environment.\n<li class=\"l\"> In the Jail subsystem, access for unprivileged users from the parent Jail to perform debugging, scheduler configuration, and sending signals to processes running in child Jails has been restricted. Separate privileges PRIV_SCHED_DIFFJAIL, PRIV_DEBUG_DIFFJAIL, and PRIV_SIGNAL_DIFFJAIL have been proposed for performing such operations. The configuration 'allow.nounprivileged_parent_tampering' has been added to restore the old process management behavior in Jail.\n<li class=\"l\"> Support for the parameters &#171;met&#187; and &#171;env&#187; has been added to the Jail subsystem, allowing arbitrary string metadata and environment data to be associated with Jail environments. The parameters can be set when creating a Jail, modified with the command &#171;jail -cm&#187;, and viewed with the command jls. For example, &#8216;jail -cm &#8230; meta=&#187;tag1=value1 tag2=value2&#8243; env=&#187;configuration&#187;&#8216;. A sysctl setting &#171;security.jail.meta_maxbufsize&#187; has been proposed to limit the maximum size of the data in the parameters.\n<li class=\"l\"> The ngctl utility has been enhanced with the &#171;-j&#187; flag to execute commands within a specified Jail environment. This added flag allows manipulation of netgraph nodes in isolated environments where the ngctl utility is not installed.\n<li class=\"l\"> The mdo utility has been expanded to allow running commands as a different user similarly to the &#171;su&#187; utility, but using the kernel module mac_do and the setcred system call instead of setuid. The new version implements options for managing user and group identifiers in the executed processes: &#171;-k&#187; for preserving current users; &#171;-g&#187; and &#171;-G&#187; for setting primary and additional groups; &#171;-s&#187; for changing supplementary groups; &#171;&#8212;euid&#187;, &#171;&#8212;ruid&#187;, &#171;&#8212;svuid&#187;, &#171;&#8212;egid&#187;, &#171;&#8212;rgid&#187;, and &#171;&#8212;svgid&#187; for overriding specified identifiers.\n<li class=\"l\"> The kadmin utility, designed for managing Kerberos, has been added with the &#171;-f&#187; option for dumping the Heimdal KDC database in a format compatible with MIT KDC, enabling migration from Heimdal Kerberos to MIT Kerberos without complete database recreation.\n<li class=\"l\"> In the stripped-down version of the pkg(7) package manager included in the base system, the parsing of options has been unified with the full version of the pkg(8) toolkit. The order of options for commands in pkg(7) must now match the behavior of pkg(8); for example, instead of &#171;pkg -f bootstrap&#187;, it should be specified as &#171;pkg bootstrap -f&#187;.\n<li class=\"l\"> The bsdinstall installer has discontinued support for installing with ZFS file systems on MBR disks (ZFS can only be used on GPT disks). The loader.efi bootloader is copied to all ESP (EFI System Partition) created on ZFS disks, in case the primary disk fails.\n<li class=\"l\"> The freebsd-update utility has established a strict order for installing shared libraries: libsys, libc, libthr, and then the others, preventing issues during upgrading from FreeBSD 14.x to the 15.x branch.\n<li class=\"l\"> The newfs utility has been added with the &#171;-u&#187; flag to disable the &#171;soft updates&#187; and journaling features by default for UFS2 file systems.\n<li class=\"l\"> In the PAM libraries (Pluggable Authentication Modules), a search for modules is provided in the &#171;${LOCALBASE}\\\/lib\\\/security&#187; directory in addition to the &#171;${LOCALBASE}\\\/lib&#187; directory.\n<li class=\"l\"> Support for VHT160 and VHT80P80 channels, used in modern access points, has been added to the net80211 wireless stack.\n<li class=\"l\"> Hardware support has been expanded. The iwlwifi driver for Intel wireless adapters now includes support for ACPI. Support for the Intel Ethernet E610 2.5G\/5G\/10G network card family has been added to the ix and ixv drivers. Support for Fujitsu SAS 6Gbit\/s 1GB RAID controllers (D3116) has been added to the mfi and mrsas drivers. <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/server\/dts-gdansk\/\" title=\"servers\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"4590\">servers<\/a> Fujitsu PRIMERGY.\n<li class=\"l\"> Support for Raspberry Pi Zero 2W boards has been included in the generated SD card images.\n<li class=\"l\"> The background process blacklistd, which provides dynamic blocking of network ports to protect against DoS attacks, has been updated and renamed to blocklistd.\n<li class=\"l\"> A package with Lua bindings for libyaml has been included in the base system.\n<li class=\"l\"> OpenSSH has been upgraded from version 9.9p2 to 10.0p2, including the hybrid algorithm mlkem768x25519-sha256 enabled by default, which is resistant to cracking by quantum computers.\n<li class=\"l\"> Updated versions of third-party components: OpenZFS 2.2.9 (previously 2.2.7), OpenSSL 3.0.16, SQLite 3.50.4, unbound 1.24.1, libucl 0.9.2, expat 2.7.3, libyaml 0.2.5, libarchive 3.8.5, xz 5.8.2, less 685, bmake 20251111, bc 7.1.0.\n<li class=\"l\"> Packages with firmware for wireless devices have been added to the base installation media (bootonly), enabling wireless connections to fetch installation files over the network.\n<li class=\"l\"> The executable file sbin\/ipfw15 has been added, built with a new KBI (Kernel Binary Interface) for compatibility with FreeBSD 15. The original ipfw utility itself detects the presence of the new KBI and launches ipfw15 if necessary to correctly load packet filtering rules when upgrading to FreeBSD 15.\n<li class=\"l\"> Support for the RIP routing protocol (routed, rtquery, route6d, rip6query) has been declared obsolete and is scheduled for removal. Instead of routed, it is recommended to use the 'bird' or 'quagga' packages from the ports collection.\n<li class=\"l\"> The built-in MIDI sequencer implementation in the kernel has been deprecated.\n<li class=\"l\"> Code for compatibility with previous versions of the ipfw packet filter, supplied before the release of FreeBSD 8, has been removed.            <\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opennet.ru\/opennews\/art.shtml?num=64956\">opennet.ru<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u041f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435 \u0434\u0435\u0432\u044f\u0442\u0438 \u043c\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0440\u0430\u0437\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0438 \u0441\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d \u0440\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0437 FreeBSD 14.4. \u0423\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0437\u044b \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0433\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u044b \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0430\u0440\u0445\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0440 amd64, i386, aarch64, armv7, powerpc, powerpc64 \u0438 riscv64. \u0414\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0433\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u044b \u0441\u0431\u043e\u0440\u043a\u0438 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0441\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c \u0432\u0438\u0440\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) \u0438 \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u043e\u043a\u0440\u0443\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439 Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine \u0438 Vagrant. \u0421\u043b\u0435\u0434\u0443\u044e\u0449\u0435\u0435 \u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 FreeBSD 14.5 \u0437\u0430\u043f\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e \u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044c 2026 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430. \u041f\u043e\u0434\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0436\u043a\u0430 \u043d\u044b\u043d\u0435\u0448\u043d\u0435\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b\u043f\u0443\u0441\u043a\u0430 FreeBSD 14.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[702],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.2 - 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