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The FreeBSD Operating System is available via images on this page or directly from cloud vendors. Please read the installation guide before downloading an image.

For information on supported architectures, see the Platforms page.

For general information about past, present and future releases, see Release Information or the Historical Release Archive.

Choosing an Image

FreeBSD images are provided in several formats to cover different installation and deployment scenarios:

Installer images: DVD ISOs (disc1, dvd1) allow offline installation; bootonly ISO requires a network connection. USB images come as full memstick (offline) or mini-memstick (network required).
Virtual machine images: Pre-installed systems for hypervisors and cloud environments. BASIC-CI images are minimal FreeBSD builds with cloudinit-compatible nuageinit(7) scripting installed by default, to enable custom automated scripting on startup. These are used by other projects to run test suites; they are not part of FreeBSD’s own CI infrastructure.
SD Card images: Pre-installed systems for single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi.

Production Quality

Production Releases are the latest supported versions produced by Release Engineering for new installations.

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE

Installer	VM	SD Card	Documentation
amd64 aarch64 armv7 powerpc64 powerpc64le riscv64	README amd64 aarch64 riscv64 amd64 (BASIC-CI) aarch64 (BASIC-CI)	aarch64 PINE64 PINE64-LTS ROCK64 ROCKPRO64 RPI (3/4) armv7 GENERICSD riscv64 GENERICSD	Released: December 2, 2025 Release Notes Readme Hardware Compatibility List Installation Instructions Errata Signed Checksums

Installer

SD Card

Documentation

README
amd64
aarch64
riscv64
amd64 (BASIC-CI)
aarch64 (BASIC-CI)

aarch64
- PINE64
- PINE64-LTS
- ROCK64
- ROCKPRO64
- RPI (3/4)
armv7
- GENERICSD
riscv64
- GENERICSD

FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE

Installer	VM	SD Card	Documentation
amd64 i386 aarch64 armv7 powerpc powerpc64 powerpc64le powerpcspe riscv64	README amd64 i386 aarch64 riscv64 amd64 (BASIC-CI) aarch64 (BASIC-CI)	aarch64 PINE64 PINE64-LTS ROCK64 ROCKPRO64 RPI (3/4) armv7 GENERICSD riscv64 GENERICSD	Released: March 10, 2026 Release Notes Readme Hardware Compatibility List Installation Instructions Errata Signed Checksums

Installer

SD Card

Documentation

README
amd64
i386
aarch64
riscv64
amd64 (BASIC-CI)
aarch64 (BASIC-CI)

aarch64
- PINE64
- PINE64-LTS
- ROCK64
- ROCKPRO64
- RPI (3/4)
armv7
- GENERICSD
riscv64
- GENERICSD

Legacy Production Quality

Legacy Production Releases are previous releases still under support for maintaining existing installations.

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE

Installer	VM	SD Card	Documentation
amd64 i386 aarch64 armv7 powerpc powerpc64 powerpc64le powerpcspe riscv64	README amd64 i386 aarch64 riscv64 amd64 (BASIC-CI) aarch64 (BASIC-CI)	aarch64 PINE64 PINE64-LTS ROCK64 ROCKPRO64 RPI (3/4) armv7 GENERICSD riscv64 GENERICSD	Released: June 10, 2025 Release Notes Readme Hardware Compatibility List Installation Instructions Errata Signed Checksums

Installer

SD Card

Documentation

README
amd64
i386
aarch64
riscv64
amd64 (BASIC-CI)
aarch64 (BASIC-CI)

aarch64
- PINE64
- PINE64-LTS
- ROCK64
- ROCKPRO64
- RPI (3/4)
armv7
- GENERICSD
riscv64
- GENERICSD

Development Snapshots

Development snapshot images are provided for testing experimental features and regressions.

CURRENT images are weekly snapshots built for testing the bleeding-edge main development branch.
STABLE images are weekly snapshots built for testing what will become pre-release images.
ALPHA, BETA, and release candidates (RC) are pre-release images, please test these if available.

Please read the development tracking guide before downloading one of these images.

FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT

Installer and SD card images are available for amd64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64.

VM images are available for amd64, aarch64, and riscv64.

FreeBSD 15.1-STABLE

Installer and SD card images are available for amd64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64.

VM images are available for amd64, aarch64, and riscv64.

FreeBSD 14.4-STABLE

Installer and SD card images are available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64.

VM images are available for amd64, i386, aarch64, and riscv64.

Applications and Utility Software

The Ports Collection

A diverse collection of utility and application software that has been ported to FreeBSD.

About FreeBSD Ports
FreshPorts - a more advanced web interface to the Collection
Installing Applications: Packages and Ports in the FreeBSD Handbook
Browse the Collection: FreeBSD ports Git repository | web.

For information about how you can contribute your favorite piece of software to the Collection, have a look at The Porter’s Handbook and Contributing to FreeBSD.

Fastly CDN

The FreeBSD project gratefully acknowledges the support of Fastly, providing CDN acceleration, caching, and bandwidth to bring FreeBSD images and packages to our globally distributed community.