FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available.

The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the stable/14 branch. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is available for multiple architectures and can be installed via ISO, USB, VM images, cloud platforms, and OCI containers.
Download and release information:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/

Thank you to the Release Engineering Team and the many contributors who make each release possible.
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #ReleaseEngineering

SCALE 23x is happening this week!
We’re excited to be back at SCALE, one of the best places to connect with the people building and supporting open source in the real world.

This year, we’re looking forward to:
Meeting community members, from new to longtime FreeBSD users

Connecting with fellow open source organizations and exploring what’s ahead in 2026
If you’ll be at SCALE 23x, stop by booth #112 and say hello; we’d love to meet you.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
#SCALE23x #FreeBSD #OpenSource

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Do you remember your first FreeBSD install?
Many in our community remember when installing an operating system meant waiting on physical media, dial-up downloads, or carefully tested CD distributions, long before pulling source took seconds.

We’d like to hear your story:
• Was your first FreeBSD install from a CD?
• Do you remember your first release?

Share your experience in the comments.

🔗 Wayne Self’s original reflection: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wself_been-thinking-about-how-much-access-to-software-ugcPost-7431565320290619392-RHVM/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD #Community

Yesterday I shared our mini goal: reach $1,000 in fundraiser donations by the end of this week so I don’t have to keep dipping into my retirement savings to pay our writers. Since then, thanks to a couple of new contributions, we’ve raised another $249, bringing the total to $615. That’s real progress — we only need $385 more to hit this short-term goal.

If you value the work we do at FOSS Force, please give what you can to our Independence 2026 GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/foss-forces-2026-independence-drive

We’re excited to share that the FreeBSD Project has been accepted again as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2026.

This marks another year of supporting contributors who want to work on meaningful open source projects while learning from experienced FreeBSD developers.

Learn more about Google Summer of Code 2026:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations/the-freebsd-project

#FreeBSD #GSoC2026 #OpenSource