diff --git a/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml b/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
index 84f6b55b295..50ad3d7fc8d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ jobs:
         copyback: false
         # We need jq and GNU coreutils to run show-utils.sh and bash to use inline shell string replacement
         prepare: pkg install -y curl sudo jq coreutils bash
+        release: '14.2'
         run: |
           ## Prepare, build, and test
           # implementation modelled after ref: <https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/2783>
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e283f0c5557..3faa1fef4bf 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1651,9 +1651,9 @@ checksum = "bbd2bcb4c963f2ddae06a2efc7e9f3591312473c50c6685e1f298068316e66fe"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
-version = "0.2.175"
+version = "0.2.178"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6a82ae493e598baaea5209805c49bbf2ea7de956d50d7da0da1164f9c6d28543"
+checksum = "37c93d8daa9d8a012fd8ab92f088405fb202ea0b6ab73ee2482ae66af4f42091"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libloading"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b8b6f48fc6a..ca74777dba3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ jiff = { version = "0.2.10", default-features = false, features = [
   "alloc",
   "tz-system",
 ] }
-libc = "0.2.172"
+libc = "0.2.178"
 linux-raw-sys = "0.12"
 lscolors = { version = "0.21.0", default-features = false, features = [
   "gnu_legacy",
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_df.rs b/tests/by-util/test_df.rs
index 8b305ce4273..b68f0a252f5 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_df.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_df.rs
@@ -601,6 +601,7 @@ fn test_default_block_size_in_posix_portability_mode() {
 }
 
 #[test]
+#[cfg_attr(target_os = "freebsd", ignore)] // https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/8722
 fn test_block_size_1024() {
     fn get_header(block_size: u64) -> String {
         let output = new_ucmd!()