Re: 13.4 p3 => 13.4 p4 upgrade didn't and can't?

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 09:38:39AM -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Running 13.4 p3:
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD breakaway.dreamchaser.org 13.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64
> 
> I did a freebsd-update fetch while running xorg.
> Then quit firefox (l1 windows), thunderbird, and mysqld.
> All appeared to terminate properly (top 10 showed the processes all gone)
> Exited all vi sessions in xterm windows
> Exited control xterm, display froze
> ssh into system from another system
> sync
> reboot
> system appeared to reboot normally
> 
> # freebsd-update install
> complained about can't resolve 0. something for ntp , unfortunately didn't
> save it
> 
> # freebsd-version -k
> 13.4-RELEASE-p3
> root@breakaway:~ # uname -r
> 13.4-RELEASE-p3
> root@breakaway:~ # freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 13.4-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 13.4-RELEASE-p4.
> root@breakaway:~ # freebsd-update install
> No updates are available to install.
> Run 'freebsd-update [options] fetch' first.
> root@breakaway:~ # uname -a
> FreeBSD breakaway.dreamchaser.org 13.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE-p3 GENERI
> C amd64
> 
> So why won't it update to p4, or why isn't it reporting p4?

'freebsd-version -u' should report p4.

p4 is a fix for sshd only. The kernel was not modified/recompiled:

<https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?h=releng/13.4&id=27f132c05c39138b375591d2bf9f73f680997de3>