pkg version and pkg upgrade

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If I run pkg version and get this output:

Code: 
# pkg version -l '<' 
libevent-2.1.10                    <
mysql55-client-5.5.62_2            <
mysql55-server-5.5.62_2            <
protobuf-3.7.1,1                   <
sqlite3-3.28.0                     <

Shouldn't running pkg upgrade also indicate that these packages need to be upgraded?

Code: 
# pkg upgrade --dry-run
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: 100%    944 B   0.9kB/s    00:01    
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB   6.5MB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 31742 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (101 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (101 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.

I just recently switched from installing software via ports collection to binary pkg installs. Probably did something wrong or didn't do something I needed to do?
 
There is nothing wrong with the generated report. It summarizes correctly the installed versions of packages. You have changed from ports to packages, that means there is a ports tree and/or ports index file present on the system. From pkg-version(8):
DESCRIPTION
...
The database of available packages and versions to compare against the
installed packages may be chosen by specifying one of -P, -R or -I or by
by setting VERSION_SOURCE in pkg.conf(5). If not specified then the
ports index file will be used if it exists (-I). Otherwise, should a
ports tree exist that will be used to compare versions (-P). Failing
either of those two choices, the repository catalogue will be used (-R).
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By default the "quarterly" pkg repository is set to install remote packages in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.

i.e. libevent-2.1.10, the "latest" (same as port) pkg repository version is libevent-2.1.11. Because of the discrepancy between "quarterly" and port version you get <.

Invoke pkg version -Rl '<' to check against remote "quarterly" repository.

Or, if you wish to install current packages, you can change the pkg repository to "latest". How to in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.
 
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