Development channel

Experimental — no support

Development 1.1 is experimental. It is intended for contributors, integration testing, and disposable lab systems only. It receives no production support commitment.

Development follows current 1.1 work. Builds can contain feature changes, short retention windows, and defects that require recovery or reinstall. A build having passed signature, integrity, and boot-smoke checks means it is the artifact the project produced; it does not make that build a supported release.

The System and optional-package repositories move independently. System-only changes do not force an optional-package rebuild. Optional packages rebuild when their sources change or an accepted FreeBSD platform pin changes their input fingerprint.

Before testing, export the configuration, retain a tagged Stable installer, and read Updates and release channels. Upgrading from 1.0.x to 1.1 is a one-way updater transition: returning to 1.0 requires booting an intact 1.0 environment or reinstalling a 1.0.x image.

The exact current build remains discoverable from the live Development release document and the provenance attached to its installer and cloud artifacts. Published combinations can include the an amd64 installer ISO and an experimental generic ARM64 UEFI installer IMG, plus architecture- specific UFS and ZFS disks in QCOW2 and raw GPT formats. Package availability is defined by the curated catalog, not by a generic FreeBSD repository.