Re: FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Now Available

Bakul Shah <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:57:02 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
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On Jun 16, 2026, at 7:08 AM, Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The announcement you quoted says:
> 
>   For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing machine to
>   15.1-RELEASE please see:
> 
>     * https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/15.1R/installation/
> 
> ...and on that page there is an "Upgrading with Base System Packages" section.
> Does that help?

More detailed/uptodate instructions here: 
	https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/

But one word of caution (discovered the hard way): 
make sure nothing is mounted on /mnt
The pkg based installation is a bit fragile.
Ideally it should give you an opportunity to fix
things and not just bail.