I know upgrading FreeBSD from 13.0 to 13.1 is so minor that it might not worth a blog post, right? The thing is, I just did this upgrade on one of my 2 nas servers a month ago, and now I forgot how to do this already.

This post will be short, and I will include the reference(s) at the end if you’d like to learn more about this.

  1. First check the current version of FreeBSD (I’m doing this live on my server):
root@nas2:~ # freebsd-version
13.0-RELEASE-p11
  1. Make sure to apply existing updates in the FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p11:
root@nas2:~ # freebsd-update fetch
root@nas2:~ # freebsd-update install
root@nas2:~ # pkg upgrade
  1. Upgrade the FreeBSD from 13.0 to 13.1
root@nas2:~ # freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE
  1. Wait and periodically answer some questions. For example, here is one of them:

The following changes, which occurred between FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE and
FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE have been merged into /etc/group:
--- current version
+++ new version
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@
 sshd:*:22:
 smmsp:*:25:
 mailnull:*:26:
 guest:*:31:
 video:*:44:
+realtime:*:47:
+idletime:*:48:
 bind:*:53:
 unbound:*:59:
 proxy:*:62:
 authpf:*:63:
 _pflogd:*:64:
Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
... <SNIP> ...

 # override default of no subsystems
Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
To install the downloaded upgrades, run "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install".
  1. Then run perform the installation by running the following command:
root@nas2:~ # freebsd-update install
src component not installed, skipped
Installing updates...
Kernel updates have been installed.  Please reboot and run
"/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install" again to finish installing updates.
  1. Reboot the server per the given instruction.
root@nas2:~ # reboot
Connection to nas2 closed by remote host.
Connection to nas2 closed.
  1. Login to the server one more time to complete the installation.
root@nas2:~ # freebsd-update install
src component not installed, skipped
Installing updates...Scanning //usr/share/certs/blacklisted for certificates...
Scanning //usr/share/certs/trusted for certificates...
 done.
root@nas2:~ # freebsd-version
13.1-RELEASE

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