Re: question about updating to 15.0

From: Nathan Reilly-list <lists_at_nreilly.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:55:09 UTC 
Hello,

I updated from 13.5 to 15 on amd64 with freebsd-update fine.

Regards,
Nathan

> On 6 Dec 2025, at 1:30 am, Gerrit Kühn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> cu
>  Gerrit