Re: FreeBSD 15.1-RC3 Now Available
Colin Percival <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:23:40 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.stable,gmane.os.freebsd.security.general |
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On 6/10/26 15:13, Kristian Stærk wrote: > ons 10. jun 2026 klokken 22:42 skrev vermaden: >> The messages that notify about new releases like this one provides >> instructions on how to update/upgrade PKGBASE FreeBSD system ... but SA >> (Security Advisories) still miss that information and only mention >> freebsd-update(8) on how to apply security fixes. >> >>> https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:26.ktls.asc >> >> This also needs to be addressed. > > I just ran "pkg upgrade" which updated my system to 15.1-RC3-p1. > > I agree that the SA's of course need to mention that. Which part of this is not clear? > 1) To update your vulnerable system installed from base system packages: > > Systems running a 15.0-RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64 or arm64 > platforms, which were installed using base system packages, can be updated > via the pkg(8) utility: > > # pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base > # shutdown -r +10min "Rebooting for a security update" -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid