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    To 2.6.0 and => 22.01 or not ? that is the question :)

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    • chudakC
      chudak
      last edited by chudak

      It's been a while since we had a major upgrade, the same question, please share your issues and success with 2.6.0 :)

      Disclaimer - I have not done it yet and assuming that packages are to be updated AFTER this upgrade.

      I guess we need to see if next step to 22.01 is good and if people decide to take it!

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      • fireodoF
        fireodo @chudak
        last edited by fireodo

        @chudak

        Hi,

        updated 2 machines (Intel and APU2 AMD) without any issues. (one had 2.6.0 RC). Unspectacular ... :-)
        Intel from 2.5.2 -> 2.6.0
        APU2 from 2.6.0RC -> 2.6.0

        Regards,
        fireodo

        Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
        SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
        pfsense 2.7.2 CE
        Packages: Apcupsd Cron Iftop Iperf LCDproc Nmap pfBlockerNG RRD_Summary Shellcmd Snort Speedtest System_Patches.

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          netblues @fireodo
          last edited by

          From 2.6rc to 2.6 on kvm virtual.
          For some reason, after upgrade dpinger and dhcp server didn't start.

          Rebooting once more fixed the "issue"

          So far so good.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @chudak
            last edited by

            @chudak said in To 2.6.0 or not ? that is the question :):

            I have not done it yet and assuming that packages are to be updated AFTER this upgrade.

            Packages will be updated as part of the upgrade.

            You should not try to update any packages before upgrading unless you set the update branch to 2.5.2-deprecated.

            Steve

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              swampkracker
              last edited by

              I have been running 2.6 development snapshots and then 2.6-RC. Updated to 2.6-Release this morning. The update took a little longer than I expected and things were a little slow to start up after the reboot, but nothing broke.

              Everything is working with no problems to report.

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                crucialguy
                last edited by crucialguy

                My uptime before the upgrade was 200 odd days, so I did a pre-emptive clean reboot first before I went to 2.6.

                It then upgraded to 2.6, no problems at all.

                Then subsequently upgraded to Pfsense Plus 22.01- again, no problems. In fact, it's actually fixed a couple of things which were broken and I hadn't got round to fixing (mail reports) - so that's a bonus!

                All in that process took about 10 mins, can't complain about that. Spot on.

                I have one of those dedicated Protectli devices.

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                  nimrod @crucialguy
                  last edited by

                  I saved my configuration just in case, and manually rebooted the unit. I started update process, and once it was done, machine rebooted automatically. System came up as usual, no problems at all.

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                    psp
                    last edited by

                    No issues here. From 2.6.0RC to 2.6.0 to 22.01.
                    Using pfBlockerNG-devel, Wireguard, OpenVPN, IPSec, 2 WANs, 5 LAN interfaces, Hybrid NAT on VMware ESXi and dedicated hw (Supermicro SYS E200-8D, SYS E50-9AP-N5).

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                    • Bob.DigB
                      Bob.Dig LAYER 8
                      last edited by Bob.Dig

                      I got problems on Hyper-V, had to go back to 2.5.2.

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                      • Cool_CoronaC
                        Cool_Corona
                        last edited by

                        Not ready yet....

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                        NAT not working inbound on non-standard ports and update check fails. NAT between VLANS not working.

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                          Funken @chudak
                          last edited by

                          @chudak

                          Hi,

                          I updated a ZOTAC ZBOX CI325 nano Mini PC (the ones with the re0 NICs) from 2.5.2 > 2.6.0. Everything went well except that my Wireguard tunnels didn't come up automatically. I had to perform a reboot of the box as a restart of the tunnels from VPV>Wireguard did not bring them up.

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                          • chudakC
                            chudak
                            last edited by

                            Upgraded to 2.6.0 with no glitch, very smooth process this time!

                            Stopped short to do => 22.01 upgrade.
                            The main reason I am not sure why I should do it.

                            Wonder what other users do/think?

                            Note - I am thinking to get a Nergate appliance just to support them, so far did not find a good option for my 4 port custom I5 mini PC replacement.

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                              boelter @Bob.Dig
                              last edited by

                              @bob-dig What sort of problems? Slow WAN? I updated to 2.6 on Hyper-V (2022) and WAN speeds tanked (2Mb/1Mb down from 1Gb/200Mb). Unusably slow after an in-place upgrade or vanilla install. LAN speeds are normal.

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                              • Bob.DigB
                                Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @boelter
                                last edited by Bob.Dig

                                @boelter WAN-Speed is ok for me (full 250 MBits/s), inter (V)Lan communication is not usable. But someone else seems to have your problem, see here.

                                @boelter said in To 2.6.0 and => 22.01 or not ? that is the question :):

                                or vanilla install.

                                Good to know, thanks.

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                                • chudakC
                                  chudak @boelter
                                  last edited by

                                  @boelter It's probably not your case, but I checked WAN speed on the wired box and a Windows VM on 1GB fiber and it seems actually better on 2.6.0
                                  FYI

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                                  • chudakC
                                    chudak
                                    last edited by

                                    Snort failed to update, maybe unrelated to this topic
                                    Just FYI

                                    https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169929/snort-upgrade-stuck-on-2-6-0

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                                      daplumber
                                      last edited by

                                      Just went from 2.5.latest to 2.6.0 then 22.01with no apparent issues.

                                      Hardware is a Dell Optiplex Desktop with a 1TB SSD (it's what I had at the time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so... )

                                      Other than forgetting to input my GELI password on the console during reboot it went fast and smooth.

                                      ZFS widget is nifty!

                                      Bunch of packages:

                                      Name Version
                                      acme 0.6.10_1
                                      arping 1.2.2_2
                                      arpwatch 0.2.0_6
                                      Backup 0.5_6
                                      bandwidthd 0.7.4_5
                                      Cron 0.3.7_5
                                      Filer 0.60.6_5
                                      iperf 3.0.2_5
                                      mtr-nox11 0.85.6_2
                                      nmap 1.4.4_2
                                      nut 2.7.4_10
                                      openvpn-client-export 1.6_4
                                      pfBlockerNG 2.1.4_26
                                      RRD_Summary 2.0_1
                                      Service_Watchdog 1.8.7_1
                                      Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.2_2
                                      sudo 0.3_6
                                      tftpd 0.1.3_3
                                      WireGuard 0.1.6_1

                                      Wireguard was actually installed after upgrade.

                                      Houston, everything appears nominal...

                                      –--------
                                      This user has been carbon dated to the 8-bit era...

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                                      • chudakC
                                        chudak @daplumber
                                        last edited by

                                        @daplumber

                                        Finally did 2.6.0 => 22.01 with no issues :)

                                        I am still "afraid" to switch to ZFS, need to become brave and bite the bullet.

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                                          daplumber
                                          last edited by

                                          Hmmm, missing an indicator on the ZFS widget for individual filesystems that are RAM based. You know, non-critical ones like /var... Did I miss something?

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                                          This user has been carbon dated to the 8-bit era...

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                                            bPsdTZpW @daplumber
                                            last edited by bPsdTZpW

                                            @daplumber said in To 2.6.0 and => 22.01 or not ? that is the question :):

                                            ...missing an indicator on the ZFS widget for individual filesystems that are RAM based...

                                            On the dashboard page, scroll down to "Disks" and click the ">/" icon. You should see /tmp and /var using filesystem tmpfs.

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