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This is great news! The question, though, is: for what specific hardware
platforms will builds be generated? Will there be more than before due to
the Tier 1 status? Will more VMs be officially supported?

--Brett Glass

At 07:23 AM 4/9/2021, you wrote:

>Summary
>
>FreeBSD will promote arm64 to a Tier 1 architecture in FreeBSD 13.
>This means we will provide release images, binary packages, and
>security and errata updates. While we anticipate there will be minor
>issues with this first release, we believe the port is mature enough
>that they can be resolved during the life of FreeBSD 13.