Where are patch releases to 12.0 posted/announced/...?

[Arthur Chance]

On 17/06/2019 19:06, George Hartzell wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to know, before fetching updates, whether a system is
> up to date (or what the current patch level is for a release)?
> 
> E.g.  I have a system that I installed from the 12.0 release iso and
> I've run through the `freebsd-uppdate {fetch,install}` dance a couple
> of times.  It now reports itself as this:
> 
> ```
> FreeBSD foo.example.com 12.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p4
> GENERIC  amd64
> ```
> 
> I'm not sure if it's up to date or not.
> 
> In the past I've run `freebsd-update fetch` and examined the output to
> decide if I need to `freebsd-update install`.  If I postpone the
> install (scheduling a convenient time), I always feel a bit awkward,
> having an update fetched and sitting there.  The only rational reason
> for the feeling is worrying what would happen if another update was
> release before I got this one installed.  And, perhaps I'm just a neat
> freak...
> 
> Is there a page somewhere that lists the current patch releases of
> the current versions?
> 
> I've checked:
> 
> - the releases page: https://www.freebsd.org/releases
> - the 12.0 errata page: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/errata.html
> - the `freebsd-announce`:
>   https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/) list, which
>   has messages about individual issues, but I don't see release
>   announcements.
> 
> I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but....

I subscribe to the freebsd-security mailing list. Any mail on that lists
the problem and which patch level fixes it, which is invariably at least
one higher than my current one.

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