This section covers changes and additions to userland applications, contributed software, and system utilities.
+[[userland-packages]]
+=== System Packaging Changes
+
+Changes in this section only affect systems installed using base system packages (sometimes called _pkgbase_), supported in FreeBSD 15.0 and later.
+
+On the aarch64, armv7, powerpc64, powerpc64le and riscv64 platforms, the non-functional `FreeBSD-apm` package has been removed. Any existing package, if installed, should be removed after upgrading.
+gitref:b04fa0f8b8c5[repository=src].
+
+On the armv7, powerpc64, powerpc64le and riscv64 platforms, the non-functional `FreeBSD-acpi` package has been removed. Any existing package, if installed, should be removed after upgrading.
+gitref:58c08517ce5d[repository=src].
+
+This release includes experimental support for cross-building base system packages on Linux and macOS hosts. The man:pkg[8] utility must be manually installed on the build host.