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Authored by bz on May 26 2026, 12:33 PM.
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Summary

Adjust the carefully prepared list of changes for the 15.1 release:

  • reduce the list of driver updates to the ones we actually ship.

Mediatek was in a different category anyway.

  • adjust some descriptions and add notes to Realtek drivers that

there are known issues.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

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bz requested review of this revision.May 26 2026, 12:33 PM

Hi Bjoern,
Just interesting why you remove information about mt76, ath10k, ath11k, ath12k ? Are these patches small or these drivers are not important?
Now I looked inside of the patches, and they do not look like big upgrade to version 7.0, though commit message says about tag 7.0 .
I will consider it, when I prepare next relnotes.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 27 2026, 5:57 PM

Hi Bjoern,
Just interesting why you remove information about mt76, ath10k, ath11k, ath12k ? Are these patches small or these drivers are not important?
Now I looked inside of the patches, and they do not look like big upgrade to version 7.0, though commit message says about tag 7.0 .
I will consider it, when I prepare next relnotes.

The reason I remove them is that they are not shipped (they are not hooked up to the build yet) and advertising them may make people think we so already support them.

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