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freebsd-update.8: Note availability of updates for ALPHA, BETA, and RC

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While here, restructure the section about the binary updates
availability.

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@ -52,22 +52,42 @@ tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary
updates to the
.Fx
base system.
Note that updates are only available if they are being built for the
.Sh BINARY UPDATES AVAILABILITY
Binary updates are not available for every single
.Fx
release and architecture being used; in particular, the
version and architecture.
.Pp
In general, binary updates are available for ALPHA, BETA, RC, and RELEASE
versions of
.Fx ,
e.g.:
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
.Fx 13.1-ALPHA3
.It
.Fx 13.1-BETA2
.It
.Fx 13.1-RC1
.It
.Fx 13.1-RELEASE
.El
They are not available for branches such as PRERELEASE, STABLE, and CURRENT,
e.g.:
.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
.It
.Fx 13.0-PRERELEASE
.It
.Fx 13.1-STABLE
.It
.Fx 14.0-CURRENT
.El
.Pp
In particular, the
.Fx
Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in binary form
by the
.Fx
Release Engineering Team, e.g.,
.Fx
11.2-RELEASE and
.Fx
12.0-RELEASE, but not
.Fx
11.2-STABLE or
.Fx
13.0-CURRENT.
Release Engineering Team.
.Sh OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width "-r newrelease"