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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:23:40 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Kristian_St=C3=A6rk?= <xi@borderworlds.dk>,  vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl>,  "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 15.1-RC3 Now Available
Message-ID:  <0100019eb3d943a1-fb23b670-cfbd-4c28-ac37-dd5b674ac719-000000@email.amazonses.com>
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On 6/10/26 15:13, Kristian Stærk wrote:
> ons 10. jun 2026 klokken 22:42 skrev vermaden:
>> The messages that notify about new releases like this one provides
>> instructions on how to update/upgrade PKGBASE FreeBSD system ... but SA
>> (Security Advisories) still miss that information and only mention
>> freebsd-update(8) on how to apply security fixes.
>>
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:26.ktls.asc
>>
>> This also needs to be addressed.
> 
> I just ran "pkg upgrade" which updated my system to 15.1-RC3-p1.
> 
> I agree that the SA's of course need to mention that.
Which part of this is not clear?

> 1) To update your vulnerable system installed from base system packages:
> 
> Systems running a 15.0-RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64 or arm64
> platforms, which were installed using base system packages, can be updated
> via the pkg(8) utility:
> 
> # pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base
> # shutdown -r +10min "Rebooting for a security update"

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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