The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights: the C library now has SIMD implementations of string and memory operations on amd64 for improved performance; improvements to the sound subsystem, including device hotplug; initial native cloud-init (configuration drive) support compatible with OpenStack and many hosters; OpenZFS has been upgraded to version 2.2.4; Clang/LLVM have been upgraded to version 18.1.5; OpenSSH has been upgraded to version 9.7p1. FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64 and riscv64 architectures. Based on the new FreeBSD support model, the FreeBSD 14 release series will be supported until at least January 31, 2026.
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