hm, I did 'pkg update' and ssh service did drop in maintenance after boot; complained that openssl is newer. installed ssh was 9.9. did run 'pkg update' - no updates available. Then I did 'pkg install .../ssh⊙10' and ssh was updated...

could some version comparison be alphabetic and not truly numeric somewhere? (I have that sort of issue backlogged in another project's scriptware, so wondering out loud)