Re: FreeBSD 15.1-BETA1 Now Available

 > The first beta build of the 15.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available.

Last login: Thu Apr 30 01:06:45 2026 from marietto
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p3 RK356X-UNIFIED-KEYBOARD-FIX-8GB

Welcome to FreeBSD!

ziomario@Radxa-Zero3W:~ # freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 15.0-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata patches.. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 14 patches.....10.. done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 16 files... ....10... done.
The following files will be updated as part of updating to 15.0-RELEASE-p8:
/bin/freebsd-version
/lib/libnv.so.1
/sbin/dhclient
/usr/include/vm/vm_map.h
/usr/lib/debug/lib/libnv.so.1.debug
/usr/lib/debug/sbin/dhclient.debug
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib32/libnv.so.1.debug
/usr/lib/libnv.a
/usr/lib32/libnv.a
/usr/lib32/libnv.so.1
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Ensenada
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Santa_Isabel
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Tijuana
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Pacific
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Chisinau
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Tiraspol
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Mexico/BajaNorte

ziomario@Radxa-Zero3W:~ # freebsd-update install
Installing updates...
Restarting sshd after upgrade
Performing sanity check on sshd configuration.
Stopping sshd.
Waiting for PIDS: 1089.
Performing sanity check on sshd configuration.
Starting sshd.
done.

ziomario@Radxa-Zero3W:~ # freebsd-version -ukr
15.0-RELEASE-p3
15.0-RELEASE-p3
15.0-RELEASE-p8

ziomario@Radxa-Zero3W:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD Radxa-Zero3W 15.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p3
RK356X-UNIFIED-KEYBOARD-FIX-8GB arm64

ziomario@Radxa-Zero3W:~ # freebsd-update install
No updates are available to install.
Run 'freebsd-update [options] fetch' first.

ziomario@Radxa-Zero3W:~ # freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 15.0-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 15.0-RELEASE-p8.

On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/1/26 22:37, Colin Percival wrote:
> > The first beta build of the 15.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available.
> >
> > Installation images are available for:
> >
> > o 15.1-BETA1 amd64 GENERIC
> > o 15.1-BETA1 powerpc64 GENERIC64
> > o 15.1-BETA1 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
> > o 15.1-BETA1 armv7 GENERICSD
> > o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 GENERIC
> > o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 RPI
> > o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64
> > o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
> > o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 PINEBOOK
> > o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 ROCK64
> > o 15.1-BETA1 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
> > o 15.1-BETA1 riscv64 GENERIC
> > o 15.1-BETA1 riscv64 GENERICSD
> >
> > . . .
>
> I will reminder of:
>
> On 11/19/25 12:00, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 9:22 AM Colin Percival <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 11/19/25 08:05, Mark Millard wrote:
> >     > The various:
> >     >
> >     > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.0-*/
> >     <https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/PKGBASE-REPOS/15.0-*/>
> >     >
> >     > have: aarch64/ arm64/ powerpc64/ powerpc64le/ riscv64/
> >     >
> >     > So they include the tier 2 powerpc64 and powerpc64le but not
> >     > the tier 2 armv7. Is that intentional?
> >
> >     Sort of.  The pkgbase repos are built as part of the process of
> building
> >     installer images, which we don't do for armv7; all we provide for
> >     armv7 is
> >     a single embedded image.
> >
> >
> > We should fix that, but 15.1R. There's lots of good reasons to have this
> > be regular.
> >
> > Warner
> >
> >     --
> >     Colin Percival
> >     FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
> >     Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com <http://www.tarsnap.com> | Online
> >     backups for the truly paranoid
> >
>
>
>
> --
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
>
>

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Mario.