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    To 23.05 or not ? that is the question :)

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      mcury Rebel Alliance @chudak
      last edited by

      Upgraded successfully here, SG-4100.

      1- Disabled RAM disk
      2- Boot environments restore to a point in which I didn't have packages installed (just usual config)
      3- Upgraded
      4- Reinstalled and reconfigured packages
      5- Enabled RAM disk again

      dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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        keyser Rebel Alliance @chudak
        last edited by keyser

        @chudak Two boxes upgraded succesfully.

        One of them showed the certificate failure on a repo and failed the first time (before doing anything) - after which it no longer showed 23.05 - said it was up to date on 23.01. Changing back to 23.01 tree and then back to 23.05 tree restored the update tree and the update went fint on the second try.

        One little niggle: The Syslog-ng package does not work - it throws a parsing error of the build configuration file. I’ll create a thread for that issue.

        Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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        • NollipfSenseN
          NollipfSense
          last edited by

          My two are up-to-date, the first was a breeze, the second had a hiccup, needed re-registered, hiccup continued, upgrade failed, rebooted, upgraded like the first, easy-peasy.

          pfSense+ 23.09 Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P SFF Quadcore i7 dual Raid-ZFS 128GB-SSD 32GB-RAM PCI-Intel i350-t4 NIC, -Intel QAT 8950.
          pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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            Gektor
            last edited by Gektor

            Have issues with Wireguard on 23.05, it did not start after boot, need to manually Save and Apply all Wireguard assigned gateways, then Wireguard starts, but until next boot, then need to do same again...

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            • Dobby_D
              Dobby_
              last edited by

              APU6B4 with 23.05 latest version, some hiccups, pkg`s were shortly not available (to install) and
              I was not able to upgrade but now all is fine
              up and running. I was three times installing it!
              2.6 > 23.01 > 23.05 but all in all it was worth it.

              #~. @Dobby

              Turris Omnia - 4 Ports - 2 GB RAM / TurrisOS 7 Release (Btrfs)
              PC Engines APU4D4 - 4 Ports - 4 GB RAM / pfSense CE 2.7.2 Release (ZFS)
              PC Engines APU6B4 - 4 Ports - 4 GB RAM / pfSense+ (Plus) 24.03_1 Release (ZFS)

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              • NeganN
                Negan
                last edited by

                Upgraded my 8200 a day ago, still no problems I have noticed, so upgrade seemed to have went fine here.

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                  sgw @Negan
                  last edited by

                  Upgraded my own SG1100 yesterday without issues.

                  Small PHP-related crash log at first login, but everthing works so far. Visible change: less RAM usage! From ~75% to 50%, nice.

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                  • GertjanG
                    Gertjan
                    last edited by

                    To 23.05 or not ? that is the question :)

                    pfSense 23.05 on a 4100 : it was a click, a coffee, and done.

                    No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                    Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                      renegade
                      last edited by

                      Updated my 4100 wit activated RAM disk.
                      made a second reboot after the update and everything works smooth.
                      Had to apply a small config change for my apc ups, which was not recognized.

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                        fastfwd @keyser
                        last edited by

                        @chudak Same cert failure as @keyser on my XG-7100, same method to resolve.

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                          mvikman
                          last edited by mvikman

                          Non-Netgate hardware updated first from 23.01 to 23.05 RCs up to 23.05.r.20230519.0600.
                          After seeing some problems with r.20230522.1252 changed branch back to "Current Stable 23.01" and waited for "Current Stable 23.05" to become available.
                          No problems updating to 23.05 Release, though I'm not running any special packages.

                          pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                          Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
                          Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
                          HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
                          HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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                            4o4rh @mvikman
                            last edited by

                            @mvikman create a backup and download a local copy in case you have to do a full reinstall.

                            when you kick off, go have coffee. the rebooting in 10s is way understated in my experience. needed 2-3min before the reboot, and then you still have a minute or so for the update to run

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                              mvikman @4o4rh
                              last edited by

                              @gwaitsi I save the config file to my pc everytime I make changes.
                              I always do a reboot before upgrade and I follow reboots/upgrades from console(display).
                              I also have a backup pfsense box that I can swap in to use if the main one dies.

                              pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                              Dell Optiplex 7040 SFF
                              Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, 2x 240GB SSD (ZFS Mirror)
                              HPE 561T (X540-AT2), 2-port 10Gb RJ45
                              HPE 562SFP+ (X710-DA2), 2-port 10Gb SFP+

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                              • RobbieTTR
                                RobbieTT
                                last edited by RobbieTT

                                Updated my 6100 Max:

                                • Backed-up config
                                • Set a ZFS Boot Environment snapshot
                                • Pre-booted
                                • Clicked on the update icon
                                • Auto rebooted with zero issues

                                So yes, I left all packages in place and other than setting backups (thankfully not needed) and the pre-booting I did nothing more than allow pfSense to sort it all out. Which it did.

                                ☕️

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                                  psp
                                  last edited by

                                  Upgraded successfully here, XG-1537 in HA. First the backup unit, then the master.
                                  Using pfBlockerNG and zabbix-agent6.

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                                    SteveITS Galactic Empire @chudak
                                    last edited by

                                    @chudak One patch so far, for the bleeding-edgers :)
                                    https://forum.netgate.com/topic/180313/firewall-alias-import-bug-after-upgrade-to-23-05-release-amd64

                                    Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
                                    When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
                                    Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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                                      tman222
                                      last edited by

                                      Successfully upgraded two systems (one Xeon D based Supermicro unit and one Intel i3 custom build) from 23.01 to 23.05. Overall, the upgrade went smooth and was fairly quick on both systems.

                                      A minor issue was that both systems ran into the certificate error the first time when trying to upgrade (as has been documented in other threads already), but flipping the Branch back to 23.01 and then forward to 23.05 again under System -> Update allowed the upgrade to proceed the second time.

                                      Very excited to see IPsec Multi-Buffer (IPsec-MB) Cryptographic Acceleration being added in this release as well as a formal pfSense package for udpbroadcastrelay.

                                      A big Thank You to everyone who contributed to this release for all hard work and effort.

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                                      • JonathanLeeJ
                                        JonathanLee @chudak
                                        last edited by

                                        @chudak pull the trigger . . . upgrade, it was so smooth for me.

                                        Make sure to upvote

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                                          Cylosoft
                                          last edited by

                                          We did about a dozen boxes. Went great. No issues at all. Hoping the syslog-ng issue gets sorted out soon so we can do a bunch more.

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                                          • JonathanLeeJ
                                            JonathanLee @Cylosoft
                                            last edited by

                                            @Cylosoft I updated my little SG-2100MAX I got to learn with in school with and it was like a hot knife in butter in a butter bell. Just smooth. I was impressed versus the 21.01 update that one well it had some problems.

                                            Make sure to upvote

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