uname -a and freebsd-version show different output on my system

[Roger Pate]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Dino Vliet via freebsd-questions
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Dear peeps,I'm running freebsd11 in a virtualbox production machine and something really bothers me a few months already. I have the idea that freebsd-update is not installing the new kernel as uname-a shows:
> 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24 06:55:27 UTC 2016     root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/
> However freebsd-version shows:11.0-RELEASE-p6

The kernel is not updated with every patch level, but freebsd-version
does show the current version:

$ uname -r
10.2-RELEASE-p24
$ freebsd-version -k
10.2-RELEASE-p24
$ freebsd-version
10.2-RELEASE-p28

Was there a kernel update you expected to see between 11.0 p2 and p6?