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Release Information

FreeBSD Releases

FreeBSD releases are classified into Production Releases and Legacy Releases. For most users, production releases will be most suitable. Legacy releases are provided for existing users wishing to stay with a more conservative upgrade strategy.

Currently Supported

For information about branches, release dates, and estimated end-of-life (EOL) dates, please see the Supported Releases section of FreeBSD Security Information.

Future

For schedules, and for more information about the release engineering process, please see Release Engineering.

The latest snapshots from our FreeBSD-STABLE and FreeBSD-CURRENT branches are also available. See Getting FreeBSD.

Prior Releases – EOL

For historical information about branches, release dates, types, and EOL dates, see Unsupported Releases.


Last modified on: October 8, 2024 by Colin Percival