1 Release notes for FreeBSD 15.0.
3 This file describes new user-visible features, changes and updates relevant to
4 users of binary FreeBSD releases. Each entry should describe the change in no
5 more than several sentences and should reference manual pages where an
6 interested user can find more information. Entries should wrap after 80
7 columns. Each entry should begin with one or more commit IDs on one line,
8 specified as a comma separated list and/or range, followed by a colon and a
9 newline. Entries should be separated by a newline.
11 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
14 dialog(1) has been replaced by bsddialog(1)
17 FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
18 However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
21 Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms via
22 COMPAT_FREEBSD32 will remain supported for at least the
23 stable/15 and stable/16 branches.
25 Support for compiling individual 32-bit applications via
26 `cc -m32` will also be supported for at least the stable/15
27 branch which includes suitable headers in /usr/include and
28 libraries in /usr/lib32.
30 Support for 32-bit platforms in ports for 15.0 and later
31 releases is also deprecated, and these future releases may not
32 include binary packages for 32-bit platforms or support for
33 building 32-bit applications from ports.
35 stable/14 and earlier branches will retain existing 32-bit
36 kernel and world support. Ports will retain existing support
37 for building ports and packages for 32-bit systems on stable/14
38 and earlier branches as long as those branches are supported
39 by the ports system. However, all 32-bit platforms are Tier-2
40 or Tier-3 and support for individual ports should be expected
41 to degrade as upstreams deprecate 32-bit platforms.
43 With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be EOLed 5
44 years after the release of 14.0. The EOL of stable/14 would
45 mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source
46 releases, pre-built packages, and support for building
47 applications from ports. Given an estimated release date of
48 October 2023 for 14.0, support for 32-bit platforms would end
51 The project may choose to alter this approach when 15.0 is
52 released by extending some level of 32-bit support for one or
53 more platforms in 15.0 or later. Users should use the
54 stable/14 branch to migrate off of 32-bit platforms.