FreeBSD 13.5-BETA2 Now Available

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 16, 2025

• FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD 13.5-BETA2 Now Available

  The second BETA build of the 13.5-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
  
  
  Installation images are available for:
  
  
  o 13.5-BETA2 amd64 GENERIC
  o 13.5-BETA2 i386 GENERIC
  o 13.5-BETA2 powerpc GENERIC
  o 13.5-BETA2 powerpc64 GENERIC64
  o 13.5-BETA2 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
  o 13.5-BETA2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE
  o 13.5-BETA2 armv6 RPI-B
  o 13.5-BETA2 armv7 GENERICSD
  o 13.5-BETA2 aarch64 GENERIC
  o 13.5-BETA2 aarch64 RPI
  o 13.5-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64
  o 13.5-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
  o 13.5-BETA2 aarch64 PINEBOOK
  o 13.5-BETA2 aarch64 ROCK64
  o 13.5-BETA2 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
  o 13.5-BETA2 riscv64 GENERIC
  o 13.5-BETA2 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 summary of changes since BETA1 includes:
  
  
  o Cloud images no longer ship with (out of date) copies of the FreeBSD pkg
    repository database.
  o UFS1 now supports dates up to 2106.
  o 'make delete-old' now removes obsolete clang/aarch64 files which were
    previously forgotten.
  o Rate limits on ICMP responses are now individually jittered.
  o Bug fixes to unifdef and sysctl string handling.
  
  
  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.

• Distro Watch ☛ Development Release: FreeBSD 13.5 BETA-2

  The FreeBSD project has announced a new development snapshot for FreeBSD 13.5. The snapshot, which is labelled version 13.5-BETA2, introduces extended timestamps for the UFS file system, updates cloud images, and smooths out the rate limits on ICMP network requests. [...]