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X-Istence | 1 year ago

Updating to 13.4-RELEASE also requires a reboot.

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Abrothies|1 year ago

You are correct, but you can install the new userland without a reboot, you will not get the benefit of an updated kernel though.

With FreeBSD 14 you definitely have to reboot.

cperciva|1 year ago

Not recommended. We have backwards compatibility but not necessarily forwards compatibility within a stable branch; running a 13.4 userland on a 13.3 kernel could break horribly.

(My guess is that it's probably fine, simply because not much has happened on stable/13 in the last 6 months. But it's not uncommon to have e.g. new syscalls MFCed.)