@pfpv The recent kea DHCP server supported fully automated DNS hist name integration into local pfSense DNS system, 'unbound'. This is a new solution to a very old problem. New solutions are often most not perfect the first time, so ... why do you want to deal with the issues known to 2.8.0 when the way better 2.8.1 is available (since a couple of months now) ? My advise : easy : get the latest version. I'm using myself the 2.8.1 equivalent, 25.07.1, and it works fine for me. "unbound" is by nature a resolver, but you can tell it to 'forward'. That will be like doing your daily shoppings with a Ferrari, but why not, you decide ^^ And I get it, you have another 'DNS' device, the pi-hole. You can also consider disabling unbound, and activate the original 'ancient' forwarder that came with pfSense, also called dnsmasq : [image: 1763105897314-2eea2f88-46e7-4f43-abd6-27888741d5fd-image.png] and forward this forwader to your LAN pi-hilo. This forwarder can't do 'DHCP host name integration' though ...

@d1novak said in Current pkg repository has a new PHP major version. pfSense should be upgraded before installing any new package.: @dennypage Thank you! Worked like a charm. Welcome

Hmm. Inconsistent booting from the same device without changing anything is even more weird. Hard to imagine what could cause that. Some slight timing variation perhaps. But from an SSD that's unexpected.

FWIW I didn’t mean one was required. With no details we’re left just guessing. I think OP just wanted to vent, tbh, so I gave up.

@patient0 I'll try. Thanks ;)

Ah, yeah that's an ugly error in 24.11 but should not prevent actually upgrading.

Clearing my browser cache did the trick. I'm OK now. Thanks to everyone for their feedback.

@mvikman Upvoted for the DL link.

@SteveITS thanks so much by the help. When I executed "certctl rehash" in Console, I can see the Update in the Branch 2.7.1 and 2.7.2. I updated from pfSense v2.7.0 to v2.7.2 and later form pfSense v2.7.2 to v2.8.1 without nay problem. Thanks so much again.

@stephenw10 Problem solved. I had to select the disk with the spacebar. In all menus before, i used enter to continue.

said in netgate-installer.iso.gz has no ISO file - only folder: @stephenw10 said in netgate-installer.iso.gz has no ISO file - only folder: Hmm, weird. How is the DVD drive attached on that? I used a 4K UHD capable BD drive connected via USB for the latest install. So in order to satisfy my curiosity, I connected the UHD BD drive to another mini and gave it a try. This time I got to the install menu. The previous tries were with a standard BD drive, which had made successful installations previously. This UHD drive is practically new with little mileage on it. So I can conclude that the ISO can work, which is good news if it gets to the point that using old version ISOs such as the 2.7.2 on hand won't do a scratch install and update to the current version. Until then I think I'll stick with that ISO.

I noticed that the kea2unbound version shipped with pfsense 2.8.1 equals this commit in the pfsense git repository Bring in Kea enhancements from Plus (marcos-ng comitted on Mar 26) After updating the version of /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound with this version: kea2unbound: use the new unbound fast-reload feature in v1.23 (rcmcdonald91 committed on Jul 2) the error seems to be gone. Steps # downlaod kea2unbound Commit 146391a curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pfsense/pfsense/146391aa0c5c25348f8f6fa36120332ccbb74ce0/src/usr/local/bin/kea2unbound -o ~/kea2unbound # set permissions chmod +x ~/kea2unbound # backup previous version cp /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound ~/kea2unbound.bak_RELEASE_2.8.1 # overwrite version mv ~/kea2unbound /usr/local/bin/kea2unbound

@stephenw10 curious as to what your testing will reveal. keep me posted!

If you registered the NDI for plus it will offer that. But you can force enable the CE repos from the advanced menu in the first installer screen. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/install-walkthrough.html#advanced-options

@f.meunier said in 2.7.2 to 2.8.1 : GUI tells 2.8.1 available but no "branch" selection available: From the shell, pfSense-upgrade -C tells me ">>> Updating repositories metadata... done. 2.8.1 version of pfSense is available" but how can I tell it to fetch and install v2.8.1 ? Running pfSense-upgrade -C only checks if an upgrade is available. So what you see there is correct. Just run pfSense-upgrade and it should offer you the upgrade.