FreeBSD 14.3-RC1 is now available: lists.freebsd.org/archives/freeb… If all goes as planned, 14.3-RELEASE builds will start on Friday -- so this is your last chance to test before the release.

Blog post: A year of funded FreeBSD development: daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-0…

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE images are starting to hit mirrors. Reminder: It's not official until a GPG-signed email goes out to the freebsd-announce mailing list. We probably won't have to pull the release at this point, but if we do it wouldn't be the first time it has happened.

I asked ChatGPT to "draw a picture that encapsulates what you think of Colin Percival", and it asked me if I wanted a picture which emphasized my work on computer security, or my role as an MP Candidate. I have never been a candidate for public office of any sort.

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE is now available: freebsd.org/releases/14.3R… Thanks to all the developers who worked on this, everyone who tested and reported bugs, and also to Amazon who sponsored my work (FreeBSD/EC2 and release engineering) for the past year.

Upgrading my laptop to 14.3-RELEASE at 39000' while flying to BSDCan @[email protected]. (Thank you Air Canada for the free wifi!)

At the FreeBSD Project developer summit at BSDCan @[email protected] . Anyone who couldn't make it to Ottawa (and also people physically in Ottawa but suffering from jetlag in their hotel rooms) can watch the developer summit at youtube.com/live/0DdnAgKLd…

Being a father is the greatest privilege and responsibility of my life.    To all of the dads who have shown up day in and day out for their families: Happy Father’s Day.

If you're running a conference in Canada with an international audience, please consider adding "how to immigrate to Canada" to your schedule. Yes, no matter what the conference is about. Seriously, a large chunk of my time at BSDCan @[email protected] was talking to Americans about this.

Reminder: If you see something released in the next few days, there's a good chance it was rushed out to fulfill a promise of "second quarter". Bonuses, promotions, and even remaining employed can depend on landing code a few days earlier; but bad incentives produce bad products.

Do I know anyone who works at Hetzner? Looking to establish a more streamlined/robust process for getting FreeBSD releases into the Hetzner Cloud than "random FreeBSD-using customer sends an email to support@".

I tend to be a 429, but for some clients I can subtract 27 from that error code.

A non-broken FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE amd64 ZFS RAW VM image is now available: lists.freebsd.org/archives/freeb… Thanks to vermaden for reminding me to do this and testing the resulting image.