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The FreeBSD Operating System is available via images on this page or directly from cloud vendors. Please read the installation guide before downloading an image.
For information on supported architectures, see the Platforms page.
For general information about past, present and future releases, see Release Information or the Historical Release Archive.
FreeBSD images are provided in several formats to cover different installation and deployment scenarios:
Installer images: DVD ISOs (disc1, dvd1) allow offline installation; bootonly ISO requires a network connection. USB images come as full memstick (offline) or mini-memstick (network required).
Virtual machine images: Pre-installed systems for hypervisors and cloud environments. BASIC-CI images are minimal FreeBSD builds with cloudinit-compatible nuageinit(7) scripting installed by default, to enable custom automated scripting on startup. These are used by other projects to run test suites; they are not part of FreeBSD’s own CI infrastructure.
SD Card images: Pre-installed systems for single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi.
Production Releases are the latest supported versions produced by Release Engineering for new installations.
Released: June 16, 2026
Hardware Compatibility List
Installation Instructions
Legacy Production Releases are previous releases still under support for maintaining existing installations.
Released: September 8, 2026
Hardware Compatibility List
Installation Instructions
Released: March 10, 2026
Hardware Compatibility List
Installation Instructions
Development snapshot images are provided for testing experimental features and regressions.
CURRENT images are weekly snapshots built for testing the bleeding-edge main development branch.
STABLE images are weekly snapshots built for testing what will become pre-release images.
ALPHA, BETA, and release candidates (RC) are pre-release images, please test these if available.
Please read the development tracking guide before downloading one of these images.
Installer and SD card images are available for amd64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64.
VM images are available for amd64, aarch64, and riscv64.
Installer and SD card images are available for amd64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64.
VM images are available for amd64, aarch64, and riscv64.
Installer and SD card images are available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64.
VM images are available for amd64, i386, aarch64, and riscv64.
The FreeBSD project gratefully acknowledges the support of Fastly, providing CDN acceleration, caching, and bandwidth to bring FreeBSD images and packages to our globally distributed community. See also the FreeBSD project mirrors.
Last modified on: November 12, 2026 by Colin Percival
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