Solved uname shows incorrect values of FreeBSD Version Patch No

Hi

Yesterday, I updated my Server which run FreeBSD 12.2 from P7 to P8. The upgrade was successful, however neofetch and uname shows different patch nos.

Neofetch
Code:
OS: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p8 amd64

Code:
uname -mrs
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p7 amd64

Is this an error or is it normal behaviour?

Would appreciate some insight on the same.

Thanks.
 
For example, right now the output of neofetch and uname on FreeBSD 13:

Screenshot_2021-06-03_09-12-14.png
 
The last security update wasn't a kernel issue, so the kernel wasn't updated and it will still show an older version. Use freebsd-version -u.
 
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Perfect it works! I understand now.

Code:
freebsd-version -u
12.2-RELEASE-p8
 
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