I was going to respond with a link to the same thread - I have not had a chance to re-install and setup. Pretty frustrating that a minor release brought down the whole thing.
I just switched to PFSense a few months ago - Release notes or not, I would not have expected, in 30 years in the IT business, that a point release would be able to bring down my network because of an internal device naming convention, but then again, I did see SMS 1.2 and OS/2 do some pretty nasty things on upgrade. So, note to self - 'stable' in the pfsense world means it has passed some testing, but ALWAYS read the forums first, point release or not.