Re: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2 Now Available

On 10/20/25 09:32, vermaden wrote:
> As the 'draft' for 'FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Release Notes' - https://freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/ - contain information that freebsd-update(8) will probably not going to exist in 15.0-RELEASE:
> 
>      "FreeBSD Update is probably not going to exist in 15.0-RELEASE!"

That's out of date.  I've fixed it.

> IMHO the 'announcement' mail should now also (or only) have information how to properly update FreeBSD in a PKGBASE world with pkg(8) commands.

No, pkgbase is considered "experimental" in 14; the intended upgrade path
for 14.x (and older) systems is

1. FreeBSD Update to 15.
2. Run pkgbasify at some point during the lifetime of 15.x.
3. Use packages (probably via a freebsd-update front-end) to upgrade to 16.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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