By default, FreeBSD uses the so-called quarterly source. As the name suggests, this does not always contain the latest versions. We therefore adapt the package sources to the latest so that the latest packages are actually obtained:
mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
sed -e 's|quarterly|latest|g' /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
pkg updateVoilá