# FreeBSD 13 Released 

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/freebsd-13-released/178894>\
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**Created:** [April 16, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/freebsd-13-released/178894 "2021-04-16T00:09:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/freebsd-13-released/178894/1 "2021-04-16T00:09:31Z")

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“FreeBSD, the other Linux, [reached version 13](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=FreeBSD+13),” writes long-time Slashdot reader [undoman](https://slashdot.org/~undoman). “The operating system is known for its stable code, native ZFS support, and use of the more liberal BSD licenses.” Phoronix [highlights some of the major new improvements](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE):

_FreeBSD 13.0 delivers on performance improvements (particularly for Intel CPUs we’ve seen in benchmarks thanks to hardware P-States), upgrading to LLVM Clang 11 as the default compiler toolchain, POWER 64-bit support improvements, a wide variety of networking improvements, 64-bit ARM (AArch64) now being a tier-one architecture alongside x86\_64, EFI boot improvements, AES-NI is now included by default for generic kernel builds, the default CPU support for i386 is bumped to i686 from i486, and a variety of other hardware support improvements. Various obsolete GNU tools have been removed like an old version of GNU Debugger used for crashinfo, obsolete GCC 4.2.1 and Binutils 2.17 were dropped from the main tree, and also switching to a BSD version of grep._ The release announcement can be found [here](https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/announce/).