Yesterday we had the final maintenance release for the NetBSD 9.x series, and today we have FreeBSD 14.5 entering the scene.
Since this release is occurring late in a legacy stable branch, there are few new features; rather, the focus is primarily on maintenance. As such, changes since 14.4-RELEASE consist mostly of bug fixes, driver updates, and new versions of externally-maintained software.
↫ FreeBSD 14.5 release announcement
The adventurous among us are already on the 15.x branch, but those of us running mission-critical systems are most likely still rocking 14.x, and for you, this is a must.
FreeBSD 14 is also still critical for 32-bit programs under Wine. Even on 15, it’s done using the compat package + userland libraries for 14. Until the WOW64 Wine situation improves for FreeBSD, at least.