Any reason not to upgrade?
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Is there any reason these days why someone might be holding back on upgrading from 2.4.5-p1(amd64) to 2.5.2? apart from lethargy or just time poor.
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@brucexling The reason I still have versions on old 2.4.4p3 is covid. Office has been cleared out, nobody there. Not worth risk of updating - even on the off chance that something went wrong. There a few people in and out of the office, but they wouldn't be able to be smart hands, etc.
So I had to put off updating, I was able to get to the office today and finally updated to 2.5.2 - had some issues with it not seeing 21.05.2, and only seeing 21.02.
Played with it for a bit, even tried to just do a update to 21.02, and then figured could go to 21.05.2 - but it would just sit there.. So since I didn't want to be there longer than I had too. My day off actually.. So I just did a clean install, smooth as silk - restored my back - bobs your uncle.
Normally I would agree with you, lazy, don't know there is an update, etc.. But with the world the way it is currently - I can for sure see why people are behind updating.
The other branch offices - think we are just going to ship a replacement we have that is current, and they can just plug in the new one and ship back the outdated one.
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@brucexling One open issue with 2.5/21.05 is the pcscd memory leak. There is a patch to disable it since it is rarely used.
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There are several IPsec problems in 2.5.2 that may or may not affect things as well. It varies from user to user depending on their tunnels/settings.
The next release is not far off, at this point you may want to wait for 2.6.0. That also means you don't get into updating things before holidays/vacations.
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That’s good feedback, thanks guys. I see nothing now to discourage me from upgrading to 2.5.2. Even the prospect of 2.6.0 perversely steers me towards 2.5.2. I don’t really want to be two generations behind, but I am always nervous of dot zero releases.
