FreeBSD 13.2 release announcement

FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE Announcement

Date: April 11, 2023

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE. This is the third release of the stable/13 branch.

Some of the highlights:

  • OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.2p1.
  • OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1t.
  • The bhyve hypervisor now supports more than 16 vCPUs in a guest.
  • Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is now enabled for 64-bit executables by default.
  • ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.1.9.
  • It is now possible to take snapshots on UFS filesystems when running with journaled soft updates.
  • The kernel wg(4) WireGuard driver is now available.
  • The kernel netlink(4) network configuration protocol is now available.
  • 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:


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