Similar to prior development builds of FreeBSD 15.0 improving their release build process , FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 brings more fixes to their release-building process.
Plus there are a number of pkgbase-related fixes and improvements in FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2.
The FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 announcement also notes its Blocklist is updated, which was formerly known as Blacklist. This blacklist/blocklist context is around FreeBSD's blacklistd daemon for blocking and releasing ports on-demand to avoid denial of service abuse. For port blocking, blocklist in this context does arguably make more sense than blacklist. My only surprise is that it's a rather late change in the cycle especially with warnings emitted for old usage.
Per this commit , FreeBSD has renamed all the "blacklist" elements to blocklist. The old blacklist ones will still work but with emitting warnings on usage.
A summary of changes since BETA1 includes:
- Many fixes to the release-building process.
- Many pkgbase-related fixes and adjustments.
- Blocklist (formerly known as blacklist) updated to 2025-04-28.
- SO_SNDTIMO now works on AF_LOCAL sockets.
- More useful output from vmstat -o.
More details and downloads for FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 via the release announcement .
Up next is the FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 release next weekend. Four betas in total followed by at least three release candidates are expected for FreeBSD 15.0. If all goes well FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE will be out on 2 December.