Hey all,
In preparation for the 15.0 release, FreeBSD has now created their
stable/15 branch and bumped the version number in the main branch to
16.
Our next quarterly build starts on 01 Oct 2025. I'm hoping to create
the hardened/15-stable/main branch prior to that. It's possible we may
have the build infrastructure ready in time for our first 15-STABLE
build, but I cannot guarantee that. If I'm unable to deploy a new
build server in time for the quarterly builds, I will perform a
one-off build when the infrastructure is ready.
I have yet to decide on a support timeline for our
hardened/14-stable/master branch. I suspect we will delegate support
for 14-STABLE to the wider community in the first quarter of 2026. We
don't really see many patches from the community, especially for
community-supported branches (like hardened/13-stable/master), so when
"community support" is mentioned, that usually means no support.
Once we produce our first 15-STABLE builds, I would highly encourage
users to start testing that out in their environments. There's a lot
of changes between 14-STABLE and 15-STABLE, especially with regards to
performance improvements.
I will keep everyone updated as to the creation of the
hardened/15-stable/main branch. Creating new stable branches is far
less time consuming than getting the infrastructure ready, so I should
have that done relatively soon.
Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
Thanks,
--
Shawn Webb
Cofounder / Security Engineer
HardenedBSD
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