When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available

clifford64 · Aug 18, 2023, 1:16 PM

Any idea when 2.8 dev snapshots are going to be available? I am affected by an IPv6 issue that is fixed in 2.8 dev snapshots a few months ago, but I haven't been able to upgrade. I upgraded to the nightlys, but ran into an issues with the repo due to the 2.8 being offline.

Dobby_ · Aug 19, 2023, 5:21 AM

pfSense roadmap

clifford64 · Aug 19, 2023, 6:30 PM

@Dobby_

I am not sure what this means. Looking at the roadmap, I just see a bunch of opened and closed bugs. I don't see anything that pertains as to when the development snapshots will be available again unless there is something I am missing?

Dobby_ · Aug 19, 2023, 6:30 PM

@clifford64 said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

@Dobby_

I am not sure what this means. Looking at the roadmap, I just see a bunch of opened and closed bugs. I don't see anything that pertains as to when the development snapshots will be available again unless there is something I am missing?

Watch from time to time on that site for a date! Like this for example;
Release targeted for May 2024

This will be shown if a release date is known, if not they can´t say anything about.

clifford64 · Aug 19, 2023, 6:31 PM

@Dobby_ said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

@clifford64 said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

@Dobby_

I am not sure what this means. Looking at the roadmap, I just see a bunch of opened and closed bugs. I don't see anything that pertains as to when the development snapshots will be available again unless there is something I am missing?

Watch from time to time on that site for a date! Like this for example;
Release targeted for May 2024

This will be shown if a release date is known, if not they can´t say anything about.

Wouldn't that be full release? Not development snapshots?

Dobby_ · Aug 19, 2023, 6:42 PM

@clifford64 said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

Wouldn't that be full release? Not development snapshots?

As I know it both can be named there.

Diggy · Nov 1, 2024, 6:10 PM

Any word on the CE 2.8.0 snapshot? Any word on a release date for the official CE 2.8.0 release? We are kinda in a holding pattern thinking that a new release is coming soon. A status update would be nice, please and thanks.

ahking19 · Nov 1, 2024, 6:10 PM

@Diggy if Netgate holds to form it will be after the Plus version 24.11 is released. The beta of 24.11 was announced today
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/190745/pfsense-plus-24-11-beta-is-here

If we see the 24.11 GA release this month. Hopefully CE will be several weeks later.

Diggy · Mar 10, 2025, 11:10 PM

Any word on the next CE release? v2.7.2 appears to be about 15 months old.

Diggy · Mar 16, 2025, 9:39 PM

I'm starting to think Netgate has abandoned pfSense CE. Maybe it is time to switch to OPNsense.?!

clifford64 · Mar 16, 2025, 10:11 PM

@Diggy
Yeah, I made the switch to OPNSense. No updates within more than a year is not really secure.

Diggy · Mar 16, 2025, 11:12 PM

@clifford64 said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

@Diggy
Yeah, I made the switch to OPNSense. No updates within more than a year is not really secure.

Are there any notable shortcomings of OPNsense compared to pfSense that you are aware of? I just downloaded OPNsense and will start testing it this week. :)

clifford64 · Mar 22, 2025, 9:10 AM

@Diggy

From my perspective, they are pretty much the same. Better at monthly updates so far. Different layout and stuff, but otherwise, they are the same platform and everything from my understanding. So to me, same concepts, just things are in different places.

Octopuss · Mar 22, 2025, 9:10 AM

@clifford64 So how often is OPNSense getting updated? I too am starting to think pfSense CE is an afterthought at this point.

But then this forum is extremely good at quickly getting support from other people, not sure if I can get it over there.

clifford64 · Mar 22, 2025, 2:03 PM

@Octopuss
I would recommend checking their website, but I believe it's monthly updates.

nimrod · Mar 22, 2025, 5:45 PM

@clifford64 said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

@Diggy
Yeah, I made the switch to OPNSense.

Why are you still here ?

No updates within more than a year is not really secure.

This statement is completely invalid.

clifford64 · Mar 22, 2025, 5:48 PM

This statement is completely invalid.

Can you please elaborate?

nimrod · Mar 22, 2025, 8:55 PM

@clifford64 said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

This statement is completely invalid.

Can you please elaborate?

It is not me that should elaborate anything. Its all of you that constantly whine about CE version not being secure, just because it has not been updated for 15 months. And every time i ask people to point out ANY security issues in CE version, i never EVER get any reply. As i said in other thread, you want updates for the sake of updates. In fact, you dont know what you want. Thats the sad part. You want the updates, but god forbid you support the project by bying a + version. I see some of you have switched to opnsense and yet, you still come here and brag about it. Are you really that bored ? Do you really think netgate cares ? No one cares.

Why cant you appreciate the fact that you have this very powerful and secure firewall solution for free? Why cant you appreciate the fact that there is alternative solution? Why not use either one without bragging and whining ? This is why we cant have nice things. People have become entitled and too spoiled.

clifford64 · Mar 22, 2025, 9:07 PM

@nimrod said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

@clifford64 said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

This statement is completely invalid.

Can you please elaborate?

It is not me that should elaborate anything. Its all of you that constantly whine about CE version not being secure, just because it has not been updated for 15 months. And every time i ask people to point out ANY security issues in CE version, i never EVER get any reply. As i said in other thread, you want updates for the sake of updates. In fact, you dont know what you want. Thats the sad part. I see some of you have switched to opnsense and yet, you still come here and brag about it. Are you really that bored ? Do you really think netgate cares ? No one cares.

Why cant you appreciate the fact that you have this very powerful and secure firewall solution for free? Why cant you appreciate the fact that there is alternative solution? Why not use either one without bragging and whining ? This is why we cant have nice things. People have become entitled and too spoiled.

I apologize if you took what I said as whining. I was only responding to an update on a forum post that I made a while back. I am by no means bragging. For me personally, I made this post over 2 years ago because I was experiencing some issues with how pfsense was handling IPv6 neighbor discovery. I completely forgot about it until I received a notification that someone had responded and I responded to their comments, as is the point of forum style discussions.

As for not being secure, it appears to be vulnerable to an openSSH bug. However, I think this is mitigated through the system > patches item.
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-48795

However, no patches in a few years means that bugs aren't getting fixed on a regular basis and it is more susceptible to new vulnerabilities that are discovered in old libraries as various packages and their libraries are updated to newer versions.

I am not telling anyone what to do. I am just telling those who have asked what I have done to resolve the issue that I posted about.

Octopuss · Mar 23, 2025, 9:46 AM

@nimrod said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

@clifford64 said in When will 2.8 dev snapshot be available:

This statement is completely invalid.

Can you please elaborate?

It is not me that should elaborate anything. Its all of you that constantly whine about CE version not being secure, just because it has not been updated for 15 months. And every time i ask people to point out ANY security issues in CE version, i never EVER get any reply. As i said in other thread, you want updates for the sake of updates. In fact, you dont know what you want. Thats the sad part. You want the updates, but god forbid you support the project by bying a + version. I see some of you have switched to opnsense and yet, you still come here and brag about it. Are you really that bored ? Do you really think netgate cares ? No one cares.

Why cant you appreciate the fact that you have this very powerful and secure firewall solution for free? Why cant you appreciate the fact that there is alternative solution? Why not use either one without bragging and whining ? This is why we cant have nice things. People have become entitled and too spoiled.

You know it's funny? You sound just like the type of person who might have happily taken part in the disgusting attacks on OPNSense seven years ago.
I wasn't aware of the drama until yesterday when I started looking into OPNSense, and I must say I am completely grossed out, and that's an understatement. The very owner of Netgate not being shy to go borderline criminal against "competition" and part of the community following. Yeah, I think I am switching regardless.