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Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
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examples.</para>
</sect2>
+ <sect2 xml:id="quarterly-latest-branch">
+ <title>Quarterly and Latest Ports Branches</title>
+
+ <para>The Quarterly branch provides users with a more
+ predictable and stable experience for port and package
+ installation and upgrades. This is done essentially by only
+ allowing non-feature updates. Quarterly branches aim to
+ receive security fixes (that may be version updates, or
+ backports of commits), bug fixes and ports compliance or
+ framework changes. Quarterly branch cut from HEAD at the
+ beginning of every (yearly) quarter in January, April, July,
+ and October, and the name for the binary package sets that
+ are produced from these branches. Branches are named
+ according to the year (YYYY) and quarter (Q1-4) they are
+ created in. For example, the quarterly branch created in
+ January 2016, is named 2016Q1. And the Latest branch provides
+ the latest versions of the packages to the users.</para>
+
+ <para>To switch from quarterly to latest run the following
+ commands:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Edit the file
+ <filename>/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf</filename>
+ and change the string <emphasis>quarterly</emphasis> to
+ <emphasis>latest</emphasis> in the url: line.</para>
+
+ <para>The result should be similar to the following:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>FreeBSD: {
+ url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
+ mirror_type: "srv",
+ signature_type: "fingerprints",
+ fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
+ enabled: yes
+}</programlisting>
+
+ <para>And finally run this command to update from the new
+ (latest) repository metadata.</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg update -f</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
<sect2 xml:id="pkgng-pkg-info">
<title>Obtaining Information About Installed Packages</title>

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