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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by throwawayboise on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:44PM (#26495948)
They do now.

Binary packages for -stable are rebuilt only for security issues or other major fixes. Simply call pkg_add(1) with the -u flag to get the new files.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches

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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by aj3 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:57PM (#26497267)
But that's just not true, check out how often they rebuild Chromium for their stable branch.
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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by chungy on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:14PM (#26497439)
Chromium isn't part of the base system. There's some misunderstanding here between the base system and ports.
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