3006.23 is as of 2026-04-03 the last Salt LTS production version.

FreeBSD was stuck on 3006.8, as an issue with Tornado code existed. Tornado allows async networking.

The good news is the Tornado issue blocking FreeBSD upgrade has been solved.

We can upgrade to 3006.23 everywhere.
As shown on T2294, 3006.8 server isn't compatible with 3006.23 client.

Plan is to use:

• FreeBSD port for FreeBSD servers
• Onedir packages from Broadcom repository for Linux servers, if not available in packages

References:

• https://saltproject.io/blog/2026-02-23-new-releases-salt-3006-23/
• https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287582
• https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=887c629104ce0f62fcbcdb29557788fcde73d56f