FreeBSD Foundation DONATE NOW Our Work Latest Updates Events Projects Grants Research Education & Advocacy Infrastructure Support FreeBSD Journal Newsletter FreeBSD Project FreeBSD Day What is FreeBSD? Get FreeBSD FreeBSD Resources Presentation Library End User Stories Get Involved Partnership Program Donate Attend an Event Propose a Project Apply for a Grant FreeBSD Merch Use the Logo Volunteer About Us About the Foundation Our Team Open Positions Contact Us Our Donors Search Donate Now Getting ready for the Cyber Resilience ActWe’re preparing for the Cyber Resilience Act by strengthening FreeBSD’s security processes, vulnerability handling, and SBOM readiness to support our community and downstream users.Learn MoreFreeBSD 15: Why You’ll Want ItFreeBSD 15.0 landed earlier this week. After examining the release notes in detail, we pulled out the standout enhancements that make this release a meaningful upgrade.Read More The Latest blog Build a NAS using FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi March 17, 2026 Read more blog Getting ready for the Cyber Resilience Act February 25, 2026 Read more newsletter February Newsletter March 3, 2026 Read more View All Upcoming Events 03 March 26 – 27, 2026 CHERI Blossoms Conference 2026 Cambridge, UK 04 April 24 – 26, 2026 Hackathon 202604 Wiesbaden, Germany 05 May 18 - 20, 2026 Open Source Summit North America 2026 Minneapolis, Minnesota 06 June 17 - 20, 2026 BSDCan 2026 Ottawa, Canada 06 June 17 - 18, 2026 June 2026 FreeBSD Developer Summit Ottawa, Canada See all events Read the Journal The latest issue of the online FreeBSD Journal is now available! It's free! Share with your friends and colleagues. Read now Featured Projects In Progress Improvements to Laptop Sleep Handling As part of the larger laptop improvements project, we are developing support for the newer S0ix states for sleep/hibernation. Many modern laptops are using S0ix versus the older S3 standard. With S0ix, the operating system is responsible for figuring out what devices need to be put to sleep before the CPU can be turned off, and the firmware will automatically turn off the CPU only once all the requirements are met. Read more In Progress FreeBSD Userland Development Historically, FreeBSD has been seen as a rock solid, secure and trustworthy server operating system. There’s no denying that it can also be a desktop operating system. The project has long recognized a desktop use case for FreeBSD, so the Userland Development initiative aims to improve the user experience. This fits in with the larger sponsored effort to improve FreeBSD on modern laptops. Read more In Progress Improve libvirt support for bhyve hypervisor Improve virtualization API, libvirt, with the ability to manage the full lifecycle of bhyve virtual machines, including creation, startup, shutdown, and destruction. The project will also include libvirt support of basic networking configuration for bhyve VMs. Read more View All Projects $250,000+ $100,000–$249,999 $50,000–$99,999 $25,000–$49,999 $10,000–$24,999 Entersekt Tailscale $5,000–$9,999 3980 Broadway Street STE #103-107 Boulder CO 80304 1-720-207-5142 info@********************* Forms Finances Legal Privacy Policy Advocacy Instagram Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube ©2001-2026 The FreeBSD Foundation.Website designed and built by Giant Rabbit. Join Our Mailing List Email Address * WordPress Lightbox