@taz79 said in pfSense Plus 21.02-p1 Now Available:

but anyway strange that there is no post about this update in here??

Yeah, I'd have to agree that it's odd there was no announcement of the(ir) forum. It was on the blog though.

https://www.netgate.com/blog/

Between the Blog, this forum, redmine and reddit... it's hard to know where to go and when to get the latest info "straight from the horse's mouth".

Hopefully they are all just really busy working through the problems on the 2.5/21.02 release.

@dylan-fraser said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:

ISSUE WITH UPGRADE - Netgate SG-3100

OPENVPN client on Netgate SG-3100 issue with portfowarding traffic from OVPN interface.

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I run OpenVPN on generic router box and had no issues with 2.5.x releases.
I would assume that for Netgate SG-3100 issue it'd be addressed by Netgate guys quickly. Do we have a confirmed bug for this problem in the tracking system ?

I'm curious as to why Go was chosen for the UI? I have zero interest in starting a language war, no Rust vs Go nonsense. I'm also not questioning the appropriateness of Go.

I'm interested in what language attributes made it attractive or was it simply you already have the people and you can get to work immediately?

I'm speaking from experience where I have had to pick a tool set for service development (purely back-end) but skipped over obvious choices because of a lack of people ready to go. I've personally never done full stack work in any serious way, and have zero interest in such things. Front end development is an unpleasentness I'm happy to leave to others. :)

I've been busy, so I didn't notice this announcement until a few days ago. I just checked and noted that I joined this community in 2016 after I started using pfSense in 2015. Previously, I was using Sophos because it went downhill after going from open source to closed source. I can't say that I'm surprised by this announcement from Netgate, but it's disappointing nonetheless. Unless Netgate will make the entirety of the pfSense codebase available such that anyone could build it from scratch or even fork it, I can't see why anyone would contribute to further development and testing of CE. You would be doing development that Netgate could incorporate into pfSense plus for its commercial gain with no compensation or assurances of getting anything in return for your effort.

Around 2018, a former pfSense developer that I tested with jumped ship to OPNsense and he is very happy there. I've maintained an OPNsense test system alongside my pfSense test system since that time. For anyone who values an open source community, OPNsense should be a serious consideration.