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Cc: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: getting alerts about system upgrades
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On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote:

> On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST)
> Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed ports,
> > and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates.  It's a whole
> > lot easier than the old situation of tracking the security lists every
> > day.
> >
> > Is there a comparably easy way to track available and critical upgrades
> > for the FreeBSD core?
>
> The canonical way to do this is to subscribe to announce@ and/or
> security-announce@freebsd.org.  Very low traffic, but important
> stuff you need to know comes through those channels.

There is also an RSS feed, which I prefer over the mailing list:

http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.rdf

-Andy.