What's the latest release from freebsd-update?

[Johan Hendriks]

Op 20-02-15 om 05:31 schreef William A. Mahaffey III:
> On 02/19/15 08:34, Dan Langille wrote:
>> I want to write a check to let us know if a given server is on the
>> latest
>> version.
>>
>> For example, how can I determine that FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 is the
>> latest
>> and greatest?
>>
>> I could run freebsd-update and see what comes back, but that's not ideal
>> for a Nagios check.
>>
>> This output seems promising:
>>
>> $ sysctl kern.version
>> kern.version: FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Mon Nov  3 22:38:58 UTC 2014
>> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>>
>> Let's assume we use that as the check for the host.
>>
>> What do we compare it to?  Where can I find out that 9.3-RELEASE-p6 is
>> available?
>
>
> I'm running 9.3 (FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5) as well, & I have noticed
> posts going by onlist referencing 9.3-RELEASE-p9 (I think, might have
> been 8), although that is little help to you. You & I are several
> months back from today, probably safe to assume something newer is
> available. The bottom of
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
> talks about comparing system versions.  If you do a 'freebsd-update
> fetch' followed by a 'freebsd-update install' you will be updated to
> the latest & greatest patch level, but I'm not sure there is a way of
> checking that level apriori .... $0.02, no more, no less ....
>

Go to the website www.freebsd.org, on the right site there is a colum 
security advisories

click on the latest, and it will show you the latest patch level of all 
versions. Like the example below,  the advisory for sctp.

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FreeBSD-SA-15:03.sctp                                       Security 
Advisory
                                                           The FreeBSD 
Project

Topic:          SCTP stream reset vulnerability

Category:       core
Module:         sctp
Announced:      2015-01-27
Credits:        Gerasimos Dimitriadis
Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected:      2015-01-27 19:36:08 UTC (stable/10, 10.1-STABLE)
                 2015-01-27 19:37:02 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p5)
                 2015-01-27 19:37:02 UTC (releng/10.0, 10.0-RELEASE-p17)
                 2015-01-27 19:36:08 UTC (stable/9, 9.3-STABLE)
                 2015-01-27 19:37:02 UTC (releng/9.3, 9.3-RELEASE-p9)
                 2015-01-27 19:36:08 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-STABLE)
                 2015-01-27 19:37:02 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RELEASE-p23)
CVE Name:       CVE-2014-8613