getting alerts about system upgrades

[Bill Moran]

On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST)
Andrew McNaughton <andrew at scoop.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed ports, 
> and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates.  It's a whole 
> lot easier than the old situation of tracking the security lists every 
> day.
> 
> Is there a comparably easy way to track available and critical upgrades
> for the FreeBSD core?

The canonical way to do this is to subscribe to announce@ and/or
security-announce at freebsd.org.  Very low traffic, but important
stuff you need to know comes through those channels.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.