Evergiven Upgrade Notes

General instructions for upgrading FreeBSD are found in The Handbook: Chapter 27

The general procedure:

freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install

reboot

freebsd-update install

reboot

pkg update
pkg upgrade

To upgrade major or minor revisions, specify the target:

freebsd-update -r 15.2-RELEASE upgrade

Note 1: BHyve VMs will fail to connect to the network until the pkg tree including vm-bhyve, bhyve-firmware, etc is updated. Don’t attempt to troubleshoot VMs until you have upgraded packages!