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FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE has been released

From the official announcement by Colin Percival:

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the
stable/13 branch.

Some of the highlights:

* LLVM and the clang compiler have been updated to version 17.0.6.

* OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.6p1.

* Sendmail has been updated to version 8.18.1.

* ZFS has been updated to OpenZFS 2.1.14.

* There have been many stability fixes to native and LinuxKPI-based
WiFi drivers.

* The NFS server can now run in an appropriately configured vnet jail.

* And much more…​

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/13.3R/errata/

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please
see:

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

Dedication

The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE to Glen Barber,
with thanks for his many years of contributions as Release Engineer.

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The 2024Q1 branch has been created. It means that the next update on the
quarterly packages will be on the 2024Q1 branch.

A lot of things happened in the last three months:
- pkg 1.20.9
- New USES: electronfix (Framework for quick porting of Electron apps)

- Default version of php switched to 8.2
- Default version of perl switched to 5.36
- Default version of ghostcript switched to 10
- Default version of corosync switched to 3
- Default version of samba switched to 4.16
- Default version of lazarus switched to 3.0.0

- Chromium updated to 120.0.6099.199
- Electron-25 updated to 25.9.8
- Electron-26 updated to 26.6.4
- Electron-27 updated to 27.2.1
- Firefox updated to 121.0
- Firefox-esr updated to 115.6.0
- KDE updated to Plasma 5.27.10, Gear 23.08.4, Frameworks 5.112.0
Plasma 5.91.0-beta2, Frameworks 5.247.0-beta2
- Qt5 updated to 5.15.12
- Qt6 updated to 6.6.1
- Python updated to 3.11.7
- Ruby updated to 3.3.0
- Rust updated to 1.74.1
- SDL updated to 2.28.5
- Sway updated to 1.8.1
- wlroots updated to 0.17.1
- Wine-devel updated to 9.0-rc3
- Xorg server updated to 21.1.10

Next quarterly package builds will start on Saturday, January 6th and
should be available on your closest mirrors few days later.

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A very good article about zfs replication, by @evilham

https://evilham.com/en/blog/2023-ZFS-replication-tools/

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Daily Driving FreeBSD

https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/daily-driving-freebsd/

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