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Subject: Upgrading to n-STABLE or RELENG_x
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FreeBSD will occasionally release security advisories detailing the badness 
surrounding a single package and will often include the following as the 
solution:

  1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4-STABLE, 5-STABLE, or 6-STABLE,
  or to the RELENG_6_0, RELENG_5_4, RELENG_5_3, RELENG_4_11, or
  RELENG_4_10 security branch dated after the correction date.

What does this mean?  And how do I do it?  The current output of "uname -a" on 
my machine right now is:

  FreeBSD <hostname> 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 30 16:39:45 
  EST 2005 <user>@<hostname>:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/<hostname> i386

Does 5.3-RELEASE == 5-STABLE?
Why are security advisories not reported by way of portaudit?
Any help would be very much appreciated.


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