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FreeBSD 13.2-RC4 Now Available

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 26, 2023

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

Please note that a fifth RC build will be arriving very soon with one more

bug fix; 13.2-RC5 is expected to be the final release candidate.

Installation images are available for:

o 13.2-RC4 amd64 GENERIC

o 13.2-RC4 i386 GENERIC

o 13.2-RC4 powerpc GENERIC

o 13.2-RC4 powerpc64 GENERIC64

o 13.2-RC4 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE

o 13.2-RC4 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE

o 13.2-RC4 armv6 RPI-B

o 13.2-RC4 armv7 GENERICSD

o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 GENERIC

o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 RPI

o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 PINE64

o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 PINE64-LTS

o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 PINEBOOK

o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 ROCK64

o 13.2-RC4 aarch64 ROCKPRO64

o 13.2-RC4 riscv64 GENERIC

o 13.2-RC4 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-RC3 includes:

o A fix to recalculate mitigations after reloading microcode on resume; this

unbreaks suspend/resume on some laptops.

o A fix to stack unwinding of kernel dumps on arm64.

o A kernel panic fix in carp(4).

o Fix bug resulting in misdetecting endianness on any platform when using

endian.h sometimes.

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

release notes:

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

=> Virtual Machine Disk Images ===

VM disk images are available for the amd64, i386, and aarch64

architectures. Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL

(or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors):

https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/13.2-RC4/

BASIC-CI images can be found at:

https://download.freebsd.org/releases/CI-IMAGES/13.2-RC4/

The partition layout is:

~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)

~ 1 GB  - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)

~ 20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)

The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image

formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB and 165 MB

respectively (amd64/i386), decompressing to a 21 GB sparse image.

Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI

loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the

virtual machine images. See this page for more information:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/QEMU

To boot the VM image, run:

% qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt  \

    -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -serial telnet::4444,server -nographic \

    -drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0 \

    -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \

    -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \

    -netdev user,id=net0

Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual machine image.

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