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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Alejandro86 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, October 15, FreeBSD 14.0 release candidate is now available, developers are working to release a stable version of FreeBSD 14-RELEASE on November 7, and at least two more candidates are expected before that.

The new version brings a number of hardware support improvements, some enhancements over FreeBSD 13 series kernels, supporting up to 1024 CPU cores, and updated drivers.

CTOnews.com Note: FreeBSD 14 is the last version of a 32-bit system, and subsequent FreeBSD 15 will abandon support for 32-bit hardware platforms (although FreeBSD 15 will retain compatibility support for running 32-bit binaries).

It is reported that FreeBSD 14 based on ARM64 and AMD64 will support up to 1024 CPU cores, up from the current limit of 256 cores.

In addition, AMD EPYC Bergamo can fully leverage the performance of 128kernel 256threads per slot, exceeding the current FreeBSD limit, so at least FreeBSD 14.0 will support the use of these servers with a large number of CPU cores.

In addition, the restart speed of FreeBSD 14 will be accelerated, ISA sound card support will be removed, and the new Intel QAT driver has more features and support than previous FreeBSD QAT QuickAssist technology drivers.

For other things, you can refer to the previous Beta version, where FreeBSD 14 added initial support for WiFi6 and a new "fwget" tool for getting firmware packages-initially fwget can get firmware for Intel and AMD GPUs.

Many other changes include: replacing sendmail with dma, Kinst as the new DTrace provider, makefs adding ZFS support, boottrace as a new interface to capture trace events during system startup and shutdown, kernel TLS offload handling TLS1.3 receiver unloading, sh has now become the default shell for root users, update LLVM toolchain updates, and so on.

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