diff --git a/ChangeLog.d/getentropy.txt b/ChangeLog.d/getentropy.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..460798f588
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ChangeLog.d/getentropy.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Changes
+   * On recent enough versions of FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD, the entropy module
+     now uses the getrandom syscall instead of reading from /dev/urandom.
diff --git a/library/entropy_poll.c b/library/entropy_poll.c
index 5250a7bfec..84b70fe6fe 100644
--- a/library/entropy_poll.c
+++ b/library/entropy_poll.c
@@ -109,6 +109,21 @@ static int getrandom_wrapper( void *buf, size_t buflen, unsigned int flags )
 #endif /* SYS_getrandom */
 #endif /* __linux__ || __midipix__ */
 
+#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__DragonFly__)
+#include <sys/param.h>
+#if (defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD_version >= 1200000) || \
+    (defined(__DragonFly__) && __DragonFly_version >= 500700)
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/random.h>
+#define HAVE_GETRANDOM
+static int getrandom_wrapper( void *buf, size_t buflen, unsigned int flags )
+{
+    return getrandom( buf, buflen, flags );
+}
+#endif /* (__FreeBSD__ && __FreeBSD_version >= 1200000) ||
+          (__DragonFly__ && __DragonFly_version >= 500700) */
+#endif /* __FreeBSD__ || __DragonFly__ */
+
 /*
  * Some BSD systems provide KERN_ARND.
  * This is equivalent to reading from /dev/urandom, only it doesn't require an