FreeBSD 13.1 stable version Officially released today The biggest highlight of the new version is that the UEFI startup of AMD64 has been improved. In particular, it can make more systems behave normally now, so as to get rid of the traditional BIOS startup.
FreeBSD 13.1 also adds support for FreeBSD update to allwo create an automatic snapshot of the startup environment, trying to make the update of the operating system safe. There are various hardware driver improvements in FreeBSD 13.1, especially the Intel WiFi driver.
Other changes in FreeBSD 13.1 include enabling location independent executable (PIE) support by default on the 64 bit architecture, the new "zfskeys" service script for automatically decrypting ZFS data sets, nvme simulation of bhyve hypervisor, chroot now supports non privileged operations, various power and risc-v improvements, large endian support improvements, hifive unmatched risc-v development board, and updating the upstream support for openzfs file system, And many other changes in this BSD open source ecosystem.