Security patches on Digital Ocean droplets

Hello community, hope you are well.

When applying security patches on a freebsd-12-x64-zfs Digital Ocean droplet something strange occurs when running freebsd-update fetch:
Code:
root@test0:~ # freebsd-update fetch
src component not installed, skipped
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 12.0-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 43 patches.....10....20....30....40. done.
Applying patches... done.
(END)

It just sits there with the cursor blinking after the (END) as if it were an open text file. Pressing q three times gets you out of that state, bringing you to the next phase:
Code:
The following files will be updated as part of updating to 12.0-RELEASE-p10:
/bin/freebsd-version
/boot/kernel/kernel
/boot/kernel/mqueuefs.ko
/boot/kernel/sound.ko
/boot/kernel/vmm.ko
/boot/loader
/boot/loader.efi
/boot/loader_4th
/boot/loader_4th.efi
/boot/loader_lua
/boot/loader_lua.efi
/boot/loader_simp
/boot/loader_simp.efi
/boot/pxeboot
/boot/userboot.so
/boot/userboot_4th.so
/boot/userboot_lua.so
/boot/zfsloader
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
/rescue/[
/rescue/bectl
/rescue/bsdlabel
/rescue/bunzip2
/rescue/bzcat
/rescue/bzip2
/rescue/camcontrol
/rescue/cat
/rescue/ccdconfig
/rescue/chflags
/rescue/chgrp
/rescue/chio
/rescue/chmod
/rescue/chown
/rescue/chroot
:

Once again, it gets stuck there, and pressing q will get you out of that state, finally finishing the command:
Code:
WARNING: FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p7 is approaching its End-of-Life date.
It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
release within the next 1 month.
root@test0:~ #

Proceeding with freebsd-update install, everything seems to work:
Code:
root@test0:~ # freebsd-update install
src component not installed, skipped
Installing updates... done.

root@test0:~ # reboot

root@test0:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD test0 12.0-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10 GENERIC  amd64


Apart from a couple of non-fatal messages and warnings, it appears that the security patches were applied successfully. Is the above sequence of events normal?
 
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