diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 67a41b7117..bb87972615 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Next Release (5.15.0)
 
 Features
 --------
+* [#1578](https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/pull/1578): Add support for FreeBSD aarch64 - [@alexdupre](https://github.com/alexdupre).
 
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index c8b6f55499..8b2b432146 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -401,6 +401,8 @@ com/sun/jna/freebsd-x86/libjnidispatch.so;
 processor=x86;osname=freebsd,
 com/sun/jna/freebsd-x86-64/libjnidispatch.so;
 processor=x86-64;osname=freebsd,
+com/sun/jna/freebsd-aarch64/libjnidispatch.so;
+processor=aarch64;osname=freebsd,
 
 com/sun/jna/openbsd-x86/libjnidispatch.so;
 processor=x86;osname=openbsd,
@@ -532,6 +534,9 @@ osname=macosx;processor=aarch64
       <zipfileset src="${lib.native}/freebsd-x86-64.jar"
                   includes="*jnidispatch*"
                   prefix="com/sun/jna/freebsd-x86-64"/>
+      <zipfileset src="${lib.native}/freebsd-aarch64.jar"
+                  includes="*jnidispatch*"
+                  prefix="com/sun/jna/freebsd-aarch64"/>
       <zipfileset src="${lib.native}/openbsd-x86.jar"
                   includes="*jnidispatch*"
                   prefix="com/sun/jna/openbsd-x86"/>
@@ -720,6 +725,7 @@ osname=macosx;processor=aarch64
     <copy file="${lib.native}/out-of-date.jar" tofile="${lib.native}/linux-riscv64.jar" overwrite="true"/>
     <copy file="${lib.native}/out-of-date.jar" tofile="${lib.native}/freebsd-x86.jar" overwrite="true"/>
     <copy file="${lib.native}/out-of-date.jar" tofile="${lib.native}/freebsd-x86-64.jar" overwrite="true"/>
+    <copy file="${lib.native}/out-of-date.jar" tofile="${lib.native}/freebsd-aarch64.jar" overwrite="true"/>
     <copy file="${lib.native}/out-of-date.jar" tofile="${lib.native}/openbsd-x86.jar" overwrite="true"/>
     <copy file="${lib.native}/out-of-date.jar" tofile="${lib.native}/openbsd-x86-64.jar" overwrite="true"/>
     <copy file="${lib.native}/out-of-date.jar" tofile="${lib.native}/sunos-x86.jar" overwrite="true"/>
diff --git a/lib/native/freebsd-aarch64.jar b/lib/native/freebsd-aarch64.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9a00c26493
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/native/freebsd-aarch64.jar differ
diff --git a/native/Makefile b/native/Makefile
index 98bf357d8e..bdd277580c 100644
--- a/native/Makefile
+++ b/native/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 #   Linux (i386/amd64/ppc/arm)
 #   Solaris (i386/amd64/sparc/sparcv9)
 #   AIX (ppc/ppc64)
-#   FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD (i386/amd64)
+#   FreeBSD (i386/amd64/aarch64)
+#   OpenBSD/NetBSD (i386/amd64)
 #   Android (arm/armv7/aarch64/x86/x86-64/mipsel/mips64el)
 #
 # Built, but with outstanding bugs (not necessarily within JNA):
diff --git a/www/FreeBSD.md b/www/FreeBSD.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c2ccd79c8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/FreeBSD.md
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+Building JNA for FreeBSD
+========================
+
+This recipe was used to build the FreeBSD aarch64 native library on amd64:
+
+```
+# Fetch FreeBSD 13.2 image and extract it
+wget https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/13.2-STABLE/aarch64/20231216/FreeBSD-13.2-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20231216-9986fd59d855-256898.qcow2.xz
+xz -d FreeBSD-13.2-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20231216-9986fd59d855-256898.qcow2.xz
+
+# Ensure there is enough space in the image
+qemu-img resize FreeBSD-13.2-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20231216-9986fd59d855-256898.qcow2 +5G
+
+# Launch aarch64 emulator with downloaded image
+qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt  \
+        -bios /usr/lib/u-boot/qemu_arm64/u-boot.bin \
+        -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \
+        -drive if=none,file=PATH_TO_IMAGE/FreeBSD-13.2-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-20231216-9986fd59d855-256898.qcow2,id=hd0 \
+        -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
+        -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \
+        -netdev user,id=net0
+
+# Connect to terminal for emulated system and boot into single user mode with default shell
+telnet localhost 4444
+
+# Resize partitions
+gpart show /dev/vtbd0
+gpart recover /dev/vtbd0
+gpart show /dev/vtbd0
+gpart resize -i 3 /dev/vtbd0
+growfs /
+
+# Exit single user mode (BSD boots to multi-user)
+exit
+
+# Login as root
+
+# Install prerequisites - part 1 - java, build system, rsync
+pkg install openjdk17 wget automake rsync gmake gcc
+# Adjust fstab (optional, only needed if reboot is planned)
+# fdesc   /dev/fd         fdescfs         rw      0       0
+# proc    /proc           procfs          rw      0       0
+
+# Install prerequisites - part 2 - ant
+wget https://dlcdn.apache.org//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.10.14-bin.zip 
+unzip apache-ant-1.10.14-bin.zip
+
+# Transfer JNA source code to build environment
+rsync -a --exclude=.git USER@BUILD_HOST:src/jnalib/ jnalib/
+
+# Set current date and time (YYYYMMDDHHMM)
+date 202312231627
+
+# Build JNA and run unittests
+cd jnalib
+/root/apache-ant-1.10.14/bin/ant
+
+# Copy jna native library back to host system
+
+```