Updates

Regular updates are important because they close dangerous security holes in particular. The open source community usually closes known security holes very quickly. This advantage should be used and patches should be applied to the system promptly. Beckhoff provides updates for the basic system and for many programs via the public Package Server that is preset in each system.

For a system update, you should proceed as follows:

1. If possible, first test the update in interaction with your own programs on test hardware.
2. Perform a backup of the system or create a restore point to restore the old system state in case of unforeseen behavior (See: Restore options).
3. First display the packages that can be updated with doas pkg upgrade –n and then execute the update with doas pkg upgrade <packagename>.