Re: FreeBSD-EN-23:12.freebsd-update

On 04/10/2023 08:28, Doug Hardie wrote:
> Now that FreeBSD-EN-23:12.freebsd-update is available, It doesn't address a couple of situations I have:
> 
> 1.  Systems running 13.1 - Do I need to upgrade to 13.2 before going to14?

freebsd-update(8) should handle 13.1 -> 14.0 upgrades directly, but 
obviously, at the moment, you'ld just get the latest 14.0-BETA.  That's 
still under the control of Release Engineering and not strictly part of 
the Security Team's purview.

Practically that means 14.0-BETA won't be covered in the SA and EN 
notices routinely, but 14.0-BETAs will eventually pick up the same fixes 
since they have been MFC'd to 14/Stable.  There is some overlap in 
membership of RE and SecTeam, so these things are not going to be 
overlooked, but the updates may take longer to propagate into the BETA 
images.

> 2.  Systems already upgraded to 14 from 13.2 that encountered the
> errors.   The note indicates that thereare some things that will not
> work on those systems.  The upgrade from Beta2 to Beta 3 gave no such
> errors.  Does that mean the issues are corrected?
All of the fixes have been MFC'd to 13/Stable and 14/Stable already. 
They should appear in the next 14.0-BETA if they aren't already in the 
current one.

	Cheers,

	Matthew