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https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/

"Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the freebsd-update(8) utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official FreeBSD release. The freebsd-update(8) utility requires that the host being upgraded have Internet connectivity."

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So you have to read the manpage of freebsd-update, understand it, and then find the version name in another document... After a while I think that this is it :

    sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE
    sudo freebsd-update install

It would be nice if these two lines appeared in the release notes.

First you left out some pretty important commands and steps.

Second RTFM!

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#upd...

Usually if you have a working freebsd system you know the handbook exist and you refer to it for that kind of instructions.

> … release notes.

The notes exist, but only in draft form; a skeleton.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262300

I drafted the corresponding pull request around the time of the PRERELEASE, which preceded the first beta.

I should not treat notes as final until RELEASE occurs.

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