FreeBSD 13.5-BETA1 Now Available

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 09, 2025

The first BETA build of the 13.5-RELEASE release cycle is now available.


Installation images are available for:


o 13.5-BETA1 amd64 GENERIC
o 13.5-BETA1 i386 GENERIC
o 13.5-BETA1 powerpc GENERIC
o 13.5-BETA1 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 13.5-BETA1 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 13.5-BETA1 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
o 13.5-BETA1 armv6 RPI-B
o 13.5-BETA1 armv7 GENERICSD
o 13.5-BETA1 aarch64 GENERIC
o 13.5-BETA1 aarch64 RPI
o 13.5-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64
o 13.5-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 13.5-BETA1 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 13.5-BETA1 aarch64 ROCK64
o 13.5-BETA1 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 13.5-BETA1 riscv64 GENERIC
o 13.5-BETA1 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/13.5/


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/13.5" branch.


A list of changes since 13.4 will be available in the releng/13.5
release notes:


    https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.5R/relnotes/


Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be
updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.5-RELEASE cycle progresses.

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