We all know that PKGBASE is ‘the’ way for the FreeBSD future – but there are some things that need to be polished. FreeBSD 15.x is the last version that will allows usage of freebsd-update(8) command to update/upgrade FreeBSD system. Starting with FreeBSD 16.0-RELEASE the PKGBASE will be the ONLY way of installing/updating/upgrading the FreeBSD Base System