FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 | FreeBSD Foundation
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FreeBSD has been included as an officially supported platform in version 1.3 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) runtime specification, released November 4, 2025. This milestone marks a significant achievement for FreeBSD and represents years of dedicated work by volunteers in the community to bring cloud-native container technology to the platform. A Major Step Forward

Standardization of FreeBSD extensions in the OCI spec is another step toward bringing the larger container ecosystem to FreeBSD. (disclosure: I’m the original author of runj, the first FreeBSD OCI runtime, and also serve as the Chair of the OCI Technical Oversight Board, but I did not write this blog post.) Comments