14.05.2018 8:06, Mike Karels wrote:

> So the freebsd-update version is not in sync with the -stable branch?
> That was not at all obvious to me.  I upgrade from source on my -current
> test system, but normally use freebsd-update on my production systems
> (until it failed to update the kernel).

freebsd-update delivers compiled code for releng/11.1 branch (for example)
and not for stable/11 branch.

releng/* branches have code of corresponding RELEASE plus small number of fixes 
only,
basically security ones.
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