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HardenedBSD is a fork of FreeBSD, founded in 2014, that implements exploit mitigations and security hardening technologies. The primary goal of HardenedBSD is to perform a clean-room re-implementation of the grsecurity patchset for Linux to HardenedBSD.

#### Download HardenedBSD

You can download HardenedBSD from either our installer site or from one of the [mirrors](mirrors.html). 

#### Recent news

* [HardenedBSD February 2025 Status Report](blog/hardenedbsd-february-2025-status-report)
* [HardenedBSD December 2024 Status Report](blog/hardenedbsd-december-2024-status-report)
* [HardenedBSD November 2024 Status Report](blog/hardenedbsd-november-2024-status-report)