FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 is available this weekend, with a stable release expected by the end of October.
FreeBSD 14 brings many hardware support improvements and a number of kernel enhancements compared to the FreeBSD 13 series. It is worth noting that FreeBSD 14 is the last version to support 32-bit systems. Although FreeBSD 15 will no longer support 32-bit hardware platforms, its 64-bit systems will retain support for running 32-bit binaries at least until FreeBSD 16.
FreeBSD 14 adds a new "fwget" tool for obtaining firmware packages - initially fwget can obtain firmware for Intel and AMD GPUs. Many other changes include: replacing sendmail with dma, Kinst as a new DTrace provider, makefs adding ZFS support, boottrace as a new interface for capturing trace events during system startup and shutdown, kernel TLS offload handling TLS1.3 sink offload, and more.
In addition, there is initial support for WiFi6 in WPA, sh has now become the default shell for root users, and the LLVM tool chain has also been updated.
For more other changes see the release notes in progress: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/RELNOTES
More betas and release candidates will be released in the coming weeks, and FreeBSD 14-STABLE should be released before the end of October.
Related Reading:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/RELNOTES
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2023-September/001419.html