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FreeBSD 14.4-RC1 has been released for testing, targeting users staying on the FreeBSD 14 branch. Key changes include backported fixes, minor updates to OpenSSL, OpenZFS, and XZ, new hardware support (Fujitsu RAID SAS D3116, Intel E610 NIC, NVMe on Google C4, Intel IWLWIFI ACPI), 9P filesystem support for Bhyve VirtIO-9P, and a fix for AMD system hangs with Windows guests under Bhyve. RC1 specifically adds Emacs, Vim, and FUSE packages for EXT2/NTFS to the DVD image, along with a NULLFS deadlock fix, RTSOCK buffer overflow fix, and EFI boot entry handling improvements in the installer.

FreeBSD 14.4-RC1 Adds Emacs, Vim & More To DVD Images