Now Available: pfSense® CE 2.8.0-RELEASE

netblues

@sokeada Obviously, since after upgrading there will be no access to the system, as it fails, you have to do everything on 2.7 before upgrading.

Οf course if you can take out the card its easier.

sokeada

@fireodo thanks, I really appreciate your suggestions.

sokeada

@netblues thanks, I really appreciate your suggestions.

stephenw10

@netblues said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.0-RELEASE:

It is always like that before the upgrade.

In fact it would usually appear just as 2.8.0 for the available version but some changes to the builder resulted in 2.7.2 seeing the appended kernel version there. At what will probably be 2.8.1 it will just show 2.8.1. But, yes, safe to upgrade.

I agree removing the hardware is the best option to prevent that panic. It's doing nothing but consuming resources whilst present.

But, yes, you could add the loader disable hint to /boot/loader.conf.local whilst in 2.7.2 and then upgrade. It would still apply in 2.8.

Or if you are already in 2.8 you can interrupt the bootloader to reach the OK> prompt and set the hint there manually to allow it to boot. Then add it to the loader file once it's booted so it reboots OK next time.

RodSlinger

Did a dirty upgrade with pfBlockerNG-devel and snort running. Just had to restart pfBlocker after finishing the upgrade and all is well.

fireodo

I did the upgrade 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 with all the packages (see signature) in place without any issues :-) but I recommend to take the netgate advise serious and uninstall the packages before upgrade ...

Waqar.UK

I know that removing before upgrade is the best possible way. But I upgraded without doing this. But backup the config file before.

SteveITS

@stephenw10 I suspect the question was about the "pfSense-repoc: no pfSense packages installed" error. But, the upgrade seems to have run.

On our one client with a 2.7.2 VM, after changing branches I don't see that but do see a "pfSense-repoc: open: No such file or directory" message.

SteveITS

@SteveITS said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.0-RELEASE:

I don't see that

I can't seem to edit my post, but after changing back to 2.7.2 I do see the "pfSense-repoc: no package 'name' pfSense-repoc: no pfSense packages installed" message.

stephenw10

@SteveITS said in Now Available: pfSense CE 2.8.0-RELEASE:

but do see a "pfSense-repoc: open: No such file or directory" message.

Yup, it should still upgrade though if you set the branch to 2.8. That was a bug in an old repoc version but it should be upgraded by setting 2.8. Also it was cosmetic only is should still function.

sokeada

@stephenw10 thanks for multiple solutions, I'll shutdown pfSense and remove WiFi Card during today break time then I'll start to upgrade again.

tgbauer

@pfGeorge New version is working well for me so far. Looks like there is a missing closing ")" in the second line of the SHA256 file here: https://www.netgate.com/hubfs/pfSense-plus-installer-checksums.txt

This produces an error:

% sha256sum -c pfSense-plus-installer-checksums.txt
netgate-installer-amd64.img.gz: OK
netgate-installer-aarch64.img.gz: OK
sha256sum: WARNING: 1 line is improperly formatted

After adding the closing ")", it works as expected:

% sha256sum -c pfSense-plus-installer-checksums.txt
netgate-installer-amd64.img.gz: OK
netgate-installer-amd64.iso.gz: OK
netgate-installer-aarch64.img.gz: OK

jiri.zemanek

I need to compile a kernel driver. So I downloaded the pfSense/FreeBSD-src repository from GitHub, but there is no RELENG_2_8_0 branch. Using uname -a I thought there is a commit ID displayed but I have not found it in the repository either. So where do I get the FreeBSD source for this release?

stephenw10

What driver do you need?

jiri.zemanek

@jiri-zemanek OK, by using git blame ./sys/sys/param.h in the devel-main branch and traversing backwards I found

46297859a745 (John Baldwin        2024-12-06 17:25:04 -0500  76) #define __FreeBSD_version 1500029

which is the same version that reports sysctl kern.osreldate. So I'll use that.

jiri.zemanek

OK, so I installed 2.8.0 CE via the netgate installer ISO and now I am trying to install ACME plugin:

WARNING: Current pkg repository has a new PHP major
         version. pfSense should be upgraded before
         installing any new package.

When looking at the System --> Update, it says:

Current Base System  2.8.0
Latest Base System   2.7.0
Status               Running a newer version.

So not sure HOW...

It seems this release is so hot that it's still glowing...

stephenw10

It looks like your update branch is somehow set to 2.7.0. Did you restore a config with that set?

Do you see the 2.8.0 branch available to set?

Are you using any custom repos?

jiri.zemanek

@stephenw10 No, it's CLEAN install.

jiri.zemanek

@stephenw10 .....and the CLEAN install has Branch pull down menu EMPTY.

jiri.zemanek

@jiri-zemanek Out of curiosity I installed using netgate installer ISO the 2.7.2 version and it does not even show available packages because the /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf -> /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense_Installer-repo-0002.conf link is broken (there is no /usr/local/etc/pfSense/pkg/repos/pfSense_Installer-repo-0002.conf file). It seems the testing department is on holiday for a long time :-D