For those still using the FreeBSD 13 series and not yet migrated to FreeBSD 14, FreeBSD 13.3 was released overnight as the latest incremental update to this mature BSD platform.
FreeBSD 13.3 enables the powerd daemon by default on ARM64 Raspberry Pi images, makes the LLVM objdump utility available, uses LLVM/Clang 17.0.6 as the compiler toolchain, and supports wireless Intel IWLWIFI driver for FreeBSD. Updated to support chipset. For the BE200 series, the Realtek RTW88 WiFI driver has been updated to fix wireless driver stability, use his OpenZFS 2.1.14 for ZFS support, and add support for Google Virtual NIC via the GVE driver.
The WiFi driver improvements are probably most notable for users running FreeBSD desktop/laptop installations, but much of the other work is all evolutionary enhancements to the aging FreeBSD 13 series. is.
Download and learn more about today’s FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE at FreeBSD.org.
