Re: FreeBSD 15.1-RC3 Now Available

Colin Percival <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:01:02 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.stable
Message-ID <0100019ee6317771-28fc155f-ab62-4669-9a5d-bf4d6db6064a-000000@email.amazonses.com>
On 6/20/26 10:58, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote:
> On 2026-06-06 23:40, Colin Percival wrote:
>> The third release candidate build of the 15.1-RELEASE release cycle is now
>> available.  Please note that this includes a critical bug fix to the x86 boot
>> loader and testing is strongly urged.  When upgrading to 15.1-RC3, please make
>> sure you install the updated EFI boot loader (see below).
>>
>> Installation images are available for:
>>
>> o 15.1-RC3 amd64 GENERIC
> 
> Hello, sorry for hijacking this thread - it's too late in case it's a real 
> issue...
> 
> Why is the release media missing so many FreeBSD-set- packages?
> Notably all FreeBSD-set-*-jail packages?
Which release media?  We have a different subset on different media.  In
particular we don't put the debug packages onto the disc1/memstick images.

It's quite possible that we forgot to add the jail sets into disc1/memstick
since those were added fairly late in the pkgbase process...

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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