Real, dated releases and announcements — verified against official sources, not speculation.
FreeBSD 2.0's November 22, 1994 release rebuilt the system on 4.4BSD-Lite, cleared its inherited legal uncertainty, and reset installation and compatibility.
DragonFly BSD began from FreeBSD 4.8 in June 2003 and was announced July 16, pursuing Matthew Dillon's LWKT, message-passing, clustering, and SMP design.
Justin Gibbs founded the FreeBSD Foundation on March 15, 2000, creating a nonprofit legal and financial institution distinct from the community-run Project.
Foundation reports document sponsored OpenSSH 9.2p1/9.3p1 integration and a November 2023 Intel iwlwifi contract that expanded into coordinated laptop work.
FreeBSD 15.0 shipped December 2, 2025 with pkgbase preview, MIT Kerberos, native and Linuxulator inotify, architecture retirements, and updated crypto.
FreeBSD moved documentation to Git on December 8, 2020, source on December 23, and Ports on April 6, 2021 while preserving its development history.
FreeBSD 7.0 added ZFS in 2008, but FreeBSD 10.0 made root-on-ZFS a guided bsdinstall option with pool, RAID, sector, and GELI controls.
Haiku, Inc. was founded in July 2003 to give the community project a nonprofit structure for donations, contracts, and long-term support.
Haiku's packagefs-based management arrived in September 2013, replacing extracted installs with activated HPKG files and reversible states.
Haiku R1 Beta 1 shipped on September 28, 2018, moving the project beyond its alpha series with package management and broader hardware work.