How to update to the latest Tailscale version?

mhache

@pfsenseuser1 Restart the service in pfSense. When it reconnect, it will update the version in the Tailscale admin panel.

pfsenseuser1

@mhache That did it!

Thanks!!

Tylast

@McDing For some reason, I can't seem to find that 1st chart from FreshPorts you posted. What's the direct URL for that?
Thanks!

McDing

@Tylast Here are the referenced URLs

https://www.freshports.org/security/tailscale
https://pkgs.org/download/tailscale

Hope that helps :)

Tylast

@McDing Thanks! It appears that I DID have the correct URLs. For some reason, that table was NOT displaying this morning. Now it is. Strange. Thanks again!

elvisimprsntr

I see there were some Tailscale client security updates in recent weeks.

https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins

So I updated CE 2.7.2 to tailscale 1.68.1

pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.68.1.pkg

tailscale version
1.68.1
  go version: go1.22.4

Seems to be working.

@cmcdonald

Can Netgate roll the official package?

Issue 15281

ericreiss

@elvisimprsntr said in How to update to the latest Tailscale version?:

https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.68.1.pkg

I tried to upgrade and here was the result:

[24.03-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.68.1.pkg
Fetching tailscale-1.68.1.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 10.1MB/s 00:01
Installing tailscale-1.68.1...
pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:14:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:15:amd64
package tailscale is already installed, forced install
Extracting tailscale-1.68.1: 100%
[24.03-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.68.1.pkg
Fetching tailscale-1.68.1.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 10.1MB/s 00:01
Installing tailscale-1.68.1...
Newer FreeBSD version for package tailscale:
To ignore this error set IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes

package: 1500019
running kernel: 1500012
Ignore the mismatch and continue? [y/N]: N
package tailscale is already installed, forced install
Extracting tailscale-1.68.1: 100%

First it complained the wrong Architecture so I changed the 14 to 15.
It then gave me this message:
Newer FreeBSD version for package tailscale:

I responded No and it says it still did something. I don't see a change and rebooted to make sure. Yes, no change.

This was on my Intel PC , not the 6200MAX.

ericreiss

OK, correction the "pkg version" command says it is now at 1.68.1 even though I said not to complete install but the package manager still stays 1.56.1

elvisimprsntr

@ericreiss

package manager GUI will still show old version.

just restart tailscale service and show tailscale status page. it should show new version at bottom.

ericreiss

@elvisimprsntr I actually reboot.

You are correct, package manager shows 1.56.1 but at the bottom of the Status tab on the VPN | Tailscale page, it shows 1.68.1.

And when SSHed into it using "pkg version" shows it as 1.68.1

elvisimprsntr

@ericreiss

Just upgraded to 1.68.2

Working great!

ericreiss

@elvisimprsntr Still no guts and therefore no glory.

Eventually I will give it a try.

elvisimprsntr

@ericreiss

Unfortunately, the previous Issue 15281 was just closed as resolved for pfSense+

Opened new Issue 15619 for CE

elvisimprsntr

Just upgraded CE 2.7.2 to 1.70.0. Now all my clients are on same version.

pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.70.0.pkg

tailscale version
1.70.0
  go version: go1.22.5

elvisimprsntr

Upgraded 2.7.2 CE to 1.72.0

https://www.freshports.org/security/tailscale

pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/All/tailscale-1.72.0.pkg

tailscale version
1.72.0
  go version: go1.22.5

chickendog

@elvisimprsntr Interesting it's marked for quarterly now. I have updated too. No issues so far... except hanging on reboot which I discovered a few package versions ago and I don't know which one it started to break on

Would be good if the repo still kept earlier versions. e.g. 1.68

elvisimprsntr

@chickendog

It usually takes a few days to recompile for all platforms/distros.

There is a 1.72.1 already with a bug fix.

https://tailscale.com/changelog

chickendog

@elvisimprsntr 1.72.1 is a linux only release.
Anyway I am saying it would be good if we could have access to older versions if we needed. pkg.freebsd.org seems to remove the old packages.
e.g. https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.68.1.pkg is dead

elvisimprsntr

Upgraded 2.7.2 CE to 1.72.1

https://www.freshports.org/security/tailscale

pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.72.1.pkg

tailscale version
1.72.1
  go version: go1.22.6

elvisimprsntr

@chickendog

If you want to save a local copy so you can roll back, manually download the packages.

wget https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.72.1.pkg