[Bug 278959] package security/metasploit still hasn't got any update on fix!

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278959

--- Comment #3 from tanawts@gmail.com ---
By default, FreeBSD is configured to take updated packages on a Quarterly
basis, so if you haven't modified your pkg config, you would not see the update
available for at least 3 months.

You can switch this setting and use latest however by running the following:

# mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
# echo 'FreeBSD: { url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest" }' >
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf

This is documented in the handbook here:
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/book/#quarterly-latest-branch

Ports are updated more or less instantaneously once check-ins occur.

Packages take time to rebuild, and if I recall, it's around a 2 day cycle
before a recently updated port becomes a package in the branch "Latest".

The Quarterly default is to provide general stability

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