FreeBSD 13.2-RC2 Now Available

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 13, 2023

The second RC build of the 13.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available.


Installation images are available for:


o 13.2-RC2 amd64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 i386 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 powerpc GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 13.2-RC2 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 13.2-RC2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 13.2-RC2 armv6 RPI-B
o 13.2-RC2 armv7 GENERICSD
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 RPI
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 PINE64
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 ROCK64
o 13.2-RC2 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 13.2-RC2 riscv64 GENERIC
o 13.2-RC2 riscv64 GENERICSD


Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access.  Additionally,
the root user password is set to root.  It is strongly recommended
to change the password for both users after gaining access to the
system.


Installer images and memory stick images are available here:


    https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/


The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail.


If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR
system or on the -stable mailing list.


If you would like to use Git to do a source based update of an existing
system, use the "releng/13.2" branch.


A summary of changes since 13.2-RC1 includes:


o Netgraph ATM routines are now marked as deprecated.


o Panic fixes in KASAN(9) and iwlwifi(4).


o The growfs_fstab startup script sets dumpdev to "AUTO" in /etc/rc.conf
  when creating a swap partition.


A list of changes since 13.1 is available in the releng/13.2
release notes:


    https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/


Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.2-RELEASE cycle progresses.

Read on