While FreeBSD 14.0 is expected this summer as the next major BSD operating system release, FreeBSD 13.2 does come with some great changes as a hearty stable point release update. There is ASLR by default for 64-bit executables, WireGuard is present, Bhyve virtualization improvements, and much more to enjoy with FreeBSD 13.2.
Among the changes in FreeBSD 13.2 Beta 1 include:
- Bhyve has gained VirtIO input device emulation support to inject keyboard/mouse input events into a guest.
- The Bhyve hypervisor now supports more than 16 vCPUs in a guest. By default Bhyve now allows each guest to create the same number of vCPUs as is the number of physical CPUs on the host.
- Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is enabled for 64-bit executables by default.
- Intel Alder Lake support has been added to the hwpmc driver.
- Upgrading against OpenZFS 2.1.9 upstream.
- The WireGuard driver has been added into the source tree.
- Kdump has added support for decoding Linux system calls.
- The pciconf utility can now decode ACS extended capabilities of PCI devices.
- Upgrades to contained software like LLVM 14.0.5, OpenSSL 1.1.1t, OpenSSH 9.1p1, SQLite 3.40.1, XZ 5.4.1, and other software packages.
- New RC scripts of "zpoolreguid" to assign a new GUID to one or more ZFS Zpools and "machine_id" as a script to generate a /etc/machine-id when it does not exist.
More details on FreeBSD 13.2 BETA 1 via the release notes and today's BETA1 announcement with download links.