Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA3 Now Available

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From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:53:07 UTC

On 9/21/25 22:05, Colin Percival wrote:
> === Upgrading ===
> 
> Upgrading to 15.0-ALPHA3 is not yet possible using freebsd-update, but it is
> anticipated to become possible shortly.  Users intending to test this are
> encouraged to ensure they have good backups and carefully examine the output
> of "freebsd-update upgrade" to ensure that it is working as intended, as this
> has (at the time this announcement is being written) not yet been tested.

DO NOT USE FREEBSD-UPDATE TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA3.

It will break your system by installing a new libc before it installs libsys.

We'll fix freebsd-update to install libraries in the right order but until
that patch (and resulting Errata Notice) comes out this isn't going to work.

-- Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid