15.1-release

following https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-fu after booting into the new kernel and issuing $ freebsd-update install to upgrade userland, at first it downloads stuff, but then sits idle for minutes and a ps faux displays: root 1764 0,0 0,0 14404 3092 0 I+...

N.B. If you don't modify PAM configurations to manage authentication/access, this is a non-issue for you. Using the documented pkgbase upgrade procedure: pkg -oABI=FreeBSD:15:$(uname -p) -oOSVERSION=1501000 upgrade -r FreeBSD-base any local changes in /etc/pam.d seem to get overwritten...

On a Framework 13 laptop with AMD Ryzen 7640 processor, I'm having trouble getting the FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE memstick installer to boot. Each time I attempt to boot off of it, the laptop presents the error: "EFI USB Device (USB Disk 3.0) boot failed." The memstick installer was copied to a USB...

Hi there, Yesterday I jumped the gun, and attempted an upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 Release, and thought I'd share my experience. The system is a fairly old Lenovo M93p Tiny, with using drm-kmod/i915. Unfortunately, it fell at the first fence, when at first boot, after applying the new kernel...

The "Installation Instructions" link for 15.1-RELEASE given on the main site's "Release Information" page goes to a 404 error. I'm guessing there's a chance that it's expected to be there soon. But even if so, it seems like maybe when a release is being made, "create the installation...