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    2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available

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      marcosm Netgate
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      BETA snapshots for 2.8.0 are available for upgrade from devices on 2.7.2-RELEASE. Feel free to discuss and report any new issues in the respective forum section here. See the blog post here for additional details on pfSense CE 2.8.0.

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        michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @marcosm
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        @marcosm

        but i was told this was abandoned. Are you sure Marcos? ๐Ÿ˜†

        Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
        Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
        Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
        Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
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          netblues @michmoor
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          pfsense 2.8 ce beta fails to boot in kvm virtualised environments under kvm with virtio devices

          Make sure you have snapshots before testing.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            That's only if you're running virtio-modern PCIe devices. virtio-legacy (Proxmox) works as expected.

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            • chpalmerC
              chpalmer
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              Mostly successful upgrade for my Watchguard XTM5 "test box"

              Anything unsuccessful was self inflicted.. ;) Make sure you have access to the box in case your Wireguard instance does not come up should you be using one.. (luckily mine is in the same rack as my primary box.)

              ;)

              Triggering snowflakes one by one..
              Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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              • patient0P
                patient0
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                Did an upgrade of a VM on Proxmox from CE 2.7.2 with UEFI with a root disk of only 6GB of which 3.2GB where free before the upgrade. And it when smooth.

                I actually did it twice, once with a serial port device and once without. Upgrade worked with both configurations.

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                  netblues @patient0
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                  @patient0 proxmox seems to use legacy virtio and works.
                  Redhat and derivatives seem to be different

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                    patient0 @netblues
                    last edited by

                    @netblues said in 2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available:

                    @patient0 proxmox seems to use legacy virtio and works.
                    Redhat and derivatives seem to be different

                    You are right, I do follow your thread about the issue you got.

                    Just wanted to give feedback of a situation where it does work.

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                      Popolou
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                      You guys at Netgate do like flying close to the sun what with the mini-fits caused by last year's April Fools ๐Ÿ˜Š

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                        nimrod @Popolou
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                        @Popolou

                        All future ce releases should target April 1st as a release date. I just love Netgate trolling. The amount of salty comments afterwards is just amazing.

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                          Popolou
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                          I suppose it's only fair, we troll them and they gaslight us in return ๐Ÿ˜

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                            fireodo @patient0
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                            @patient0 said in 2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available:

                            I actually did it twice, once with a serial port device and once without. Upgrade worked with both configurations.

                            Can you say something about the dashboard cpu load? Is that better now?

                            Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                            SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                            pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                            Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                              2.8 is branched at the same point as 25.03 so it should have the same improvements that does. Of course it will be harder to see because 2.7.2 still used the old refresh method.

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                                fireodo @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10 said in 2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available:

                                2.8 is branched at the same point as 25.03 so it should have the same improvements that does. Of course it will be harder to see because 2.7.2 still used the old refresh method.

                                Thanks. On my Lab machine (APU2C0) under 24.11 the problem still persists despite of all patches ... :-(

                                Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                                SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                                pfsense 2.8.0 CE
                                Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                                • LHoustL
                                  LHoust
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                                  After using the RC1 Network Installer with my Zimaboard 432 (Dual 10Gtek NIC), I had to reassign the WAN Interface: Following the reboot, the WAN had been re-assigned to an Onboard Realtek NIC.

                                  On the First Restore of my 2.7.2 Config, there were NO Packages Available and the BETA had rebuild its list of Packages. For the Second attempt: All Packages were Available and those which my Config Required, were successfully Downloaded in the Background...

                                  Although it has only been couple of days, so far I had NOT Noticed any Problems with this BETA running my 2.7.2 Config???

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                    Hmm, so at first boot after a clean install the WAN had been auto-assigned to re0? Was the LAN also assigned to re1?

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                                    • LHoustL
                                      LHoust
                                      last edited by LHoust

                                      Actually LAN was still assigned to igb1.

                                      All of which I found a bit "Strange", since igb0 had just been used to complete the Network Installation before the reboot!

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                                        mikey_s
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                                        Just upgraded a spare XG 230 Rev2 from pfsense 2.7.2 to version 2.8. Will have a further look in due course. It's a generic install that has been upgraded.

                                        One observation, QAT is now list in the drop down list for Cryptographic Hardware under advanced settings? Was this added? I have other hardware with QAT on the CPU, so could be interested in getting pfsense CE on that.

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                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                          Depends what CPU that has but QAT support was added upstream so...

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                                            mikey_s @stephenw10
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                                            @stephenw10 Many thanks and good to hear it's come from upstream.

                                            Test box atm doesn't have QAT capable CPU, XG 230 Rev 2 with an Intel G4400.

                                            My other boxes is a XG135 Rev 3 with a Intel Atom C3558 and that has QAT on the CPU. They've currently got XG Home and another pfsense install.

                                            I have a restore from a plus instance to use.

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