The first beta version of FreeBSD 13.1 has become available to developers.
Installation images are available for:
amd64 GENERIC,
386 GENERIC,
PowerPC GENERIC,
powerpc64 GENERIC64,
powerpc64le GENERIC64LE,
powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE,
armv6 RPI-B,
armv7 GENERICSD,
aarch64RPI,
aarch64 PINE64,
aarch64 PINE64-LTS,
aarch64 PINEBOOK,
aarch64ROCK64,
aarch64 ROCKPRO64,
riscv64 GENERIC,
riscv64 GENERICSD.
For the convenience of those who do not have console access to the system, the freebsd user with the freebsd password is by default open for ssh(1) access. The password for the root user is set to root. Developers recommend changing passwords after gaining access to the system.
13.1-BETA1 arm64/aarch64 ISOs, memstick images, and virtual machine images are not available due to a build failure, which are currently being fixed and should be available in Beta 2.
Installer images and memory card images are available here:
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.1/.
Installation issues can be reported via the Bugzilla PR or on the stable mailing list.
In Git, to update an existing system, you need to use the releng/13.1 branch.
A list of changes since version 13.0 is available in releng/13.1 in the release note: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/. The notes page will still be updated.
VM disk images are available for amd64 and i386 architectures. They can be downloaded from the following URL (or any of the FreeBSD download mirrors): https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/13.1-BETA1/.
BASIC-CI images can be found at https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/CI-IMAGES/13.1-BETA1/.
The section layout is as follows:
~ 16 kB - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label),
~1 GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (label GPT swapfs),
~20 GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label).
Disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw image formats. The download image size is approximately 135 MB and 165 MB respectively (amd64/i386) unpacked into a 21 GB image.
The FreeBSD/amd64 EC2 AMIs can be obtained from the System Manager settings store in each region using /aws/service/freebsd/amd64/base/ufs/14.0/CURRENT.
FreeBSD/amd64 images are available from Hashicorp Atlas and can be installed by running % vagrant init freebsd/FreeBSD-13.1-BETA1, % vagrant up.
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports amd64 and i386 binary updates, as well as systems with earlier releases of FreeBSD.
Releases of FreeBSD can be upgraded as follows: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-BETA1.
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially when upgrading from an earlier version of FreeBSD, such as FreeBSD 12.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat12x and other compatibility libraries, after which the system must be rebooted into the new user space: # shutdown -r now.
After a reboot, you need to run freebsd-update again to remove obsolete files: # freebsd-update install.
FreeBSD 13.0 was released in April 2021. Based on the new FreeBSD support model, developers will support the FreeBSD 13.x release branch until at least January 31, 2026. The FreeBSD 13.0 release will be maintained for at least three months after the FreeBSD 13.1 release.
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