Re: question about updating to 15.0
- In reply to: Gerrit Kühn : "question about updating to 15.0"
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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:38:25 UTC
On 12/5/25 06:30, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > I just read the friendly reminder > on https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/installation/ that FreeBSD-EN-25:18.freebsd-update errata update should be followed. > > That errata is, among other versions like stable/14, stable/13, avilable > for 13.5 releng and 14.2 releng: > https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-25:18.freebsd-update.asc > It says in its "Impact" section "When using freebsd-update(8) to upgrade a > system from FreeBSD 13.x or 14.x to FreeBSD 15.0..." > > However, when looking at the installation instructions for 15.0 above, > these state "Systems running 14.3-RELEASE can upgrade as follows:" > > This makes me wonder if 14.3 is the only version where upgrading to 15.0 > via freebsd-upgrade is supported, or if, e.g., 14.2 or 13.5 would be valid > (and supported) starting points for the direct upgrade process to 15.0, > too. Upgrading from any non-EoL release *should* work. But personally I would upgrade to 14.3 first, simply because 14.3->15.0 has been tested far more. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid