Software Update: FreeBSD 13.1

Members of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team released version 13.1 a few days ago. FreeBSD was created in 1993 and is developed as a whole, unlike, say, Linux, whose kernel is maintained by one group of developers and certain applications by others. Because of this, FreeBSD is generally considered more stable and robust than several other operating systems. Extensive release notes can be found on this page are found, these are briefly the most important changes:

FreeBSD 13.1 RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/13 branch.

Some of the highlights:

• OpenSSH has been updated to version v8.8p1.
• OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1o.
• The use of FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators has been enabled in ssh, using the new public key types ecdsa-sk and ed25519-sk, along with corresponding certificate types.
• The ice(4) driver has been updated to 1.34.2-k, adding firmware logging and initial DCB support.
• The iwlwifi(4) driver along with a LinuxKPI 802.11 compatibility layer was added to supplement iwm(4) for newer Intel Wireless chipsets.
• ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.1.4.
• EC2 images are now built by default to boot using UEFI instead of legacy BIOS.
• And much more…​

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: