The Q4 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal is Now Available!

[Florine Kamdem]

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We are pleased to announce the October/November/December 2025 issue of the FreeBSD Journal, focused on FreeBSD 15.0, is now available. This online publication provides the FreeBSD community with valuable insights and technical knowledge each quarter.

This quarter’s issue highlights FreeBSD 15.0, featuring articles that explore storage and sound subsystems, system security, developer tooling, and community initiatives. Inside, you’ll find coverage on FreeBSD 15.0 fixes and features, Universal Flash Storage, credential transitions with mdo(1) and mac_do(4), FreeBSD’s participation in Google Summer of Code 2025, and building U-Boot. The issue also includes community staples such as We Get Letters, the 2026 Events Calendar, and a Letter from the Foundation.

Thank you to all the contributors who made this issue possible. The FreeBSD Journal highlights the work and expertise of the FreeBSD community. As always, it is freely available in both HTML and PDF formats.

Read the Q4 2025 Issue Here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/

Please take a moment to read this issue, share it with your colleagues, and help spread the word that the FreeBSD Journal is a great way to stay up to date on the FreeBSD community.


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[sidetone]

From this journal https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-w...tion/freebsd-15-0/vox-freebsd-how-sound-works

Has a section on thorough way to file a bug report for sound.

1. uname -a
2. sndctl -v
3. mixer -a
4. sysctl hw.snd dev.pcm, as well as the driver-specific sysctls, if any.
5. dmesg, after setting hw.snd.verbose=4 and reproducing the bug.
6. Logs, if any, from the application with which the bug is reproduced.

sndctl -v displays the play rate available for the card. On my laptop: 48,000.

Also about Virtual mixers for OSS for Bluetooth, Sndio and an equalizer.

Hotplugging for sound is available for 15.0.

Lots more...

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

What caught my eye was the article about "Universal Flash Storage on FreeBSD."

 

[tuaris]

I really enjoyed Michael Lucas's article. Agree with most of what he said, but I will admit that freebsd-update was the game changer that opened the door (for me) to adopt FreeBSD more. I run 100's of FreeBSD systems and can't imagine life without freebsd-update. Still, the devs need to go back to the drawing board with pkg-base and design something that's more "FreeBSD" and less "Linux".

I have a lot of respect for Colin Percival, he's created a lot of stuff that's affected our lives even outside of FreeBSD, but he thinks more like a Linux guy and less like a FreeBSD guy.