Re: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA4 Now Available

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_tarsnap.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:10:47 UTC 
On 11/1/25 17:04, Erichans wrote:
> I've just upgraded from 15.0-BETA3 to 15.0-BETA4:
> [0-0] # date -u; uname -apKU; freebsd-version -kru
> Sat Nov  1 23:57:10 UTC 2025
> FreeBSD q210 15.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 15.0-BETA4
> releng/15.0-n280840-f0b1ca546eb4 GENERIC amd64 amd64 1500068 1500068
> 15.0-BETA4
> 15.0-BETA4
> 15.0-BETA4
> [1-0] #
> 
> However, with the previous upgrade to BETA3, I got:
> 
> [0-0] # date -u; uname -apKU; freebsd-version -kru
> Sat Oct 25 12:50:05 UTC 2025
> FreeBSD q210 15.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 15.0-BETA3
> releng/15.0-n280758-0fc5b401bdc7 GENERIC amd64 amd64 1500068 1500068
> 15.0-BETA3
> 15.0-BETA3
> 15.0-BETA3
> 
> I was expecting a version bump to 1500069 with BETA4

No, the __FreeBSD_version value is essentially a "what features does the
base system have" value -- it exists mainly so that ports code can query
it (e.g. to include patches or enable features based).  Nothing major
changed between BETA3 and BETA4; in fact 15.0-RELEASE will probably have
the same 1500068 value.
-- 
Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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