2.8.0-BETA snapshots are now available

marcosm

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.

michmoor

@marcosm

but i was told this was abandoned. Are you sure Marcos?

netblues

pfsense 2.8 ce beta fails to boot in kvm virtualised environments under kvm with virtio devices

Make sure you have snapshots before testing.

stephenw10

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

chpalmer

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.)

;)

patient0

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.

netblues

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

patient0

@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.

Popolou

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

nimrod

@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.

Popolou

I suppose it's only fair, we troll them and they gaslight us in return

fireodo

@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?

stephenw10

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.