pfSense® CE 2.8.1 Beta Now Available!

netblues

Upgraded from 2.8ce under kvm and uefi,

No issues for now, however we would appreciate release notes so as to know what to look for. :)

Waqar.UK

I have a stable 2.80 version. Should I upgrade to "Version 2.8.1.b.20250717.1752.1500029 is available"?

SteveITS

@Waqar-UK If you like testing prerelease software and are willing to report and work through all the bugs you find, sure.

Waqar.UK

@SteveITS

I understand. But my family needs a stable connection as father is disabled and uses a IP based telephone.

Patch

Working well for me.
Relatively basic installation under Proxmox with NIC pass though though.

tinfoilmatt

Successful and uneventful update from 2.8 to 2.8.1 on bare metal. I initiated the update from GUI with an IPMI console session (which I never touched) side-by-side.

Update preparation was outputted nicely to the GUI logview, which persisted during the 'still rebooting, retrying again in xx seconds...' making it helpful to be able to scroll back through and review what steps were performed and packages were marked for upgrade.

From console view, the system then appeared to reboot into 2.8, perform/finalize the 2.8.1 update, and then reroot into the now-updated system.

If you're doing it 'blind' from GUI (i.e., no console view), expect it to take at least 10 minutes.

I did manually start unbound, which was still stopped, once I logged back into the GUI. But I may have jumped the gun on that. (Not running any service watchdog or anything, checked DNS Resolver log quick, and then just decided to click the 'Start' radio from the Dashboard Services widget, and it started normally.)

SteveITS

@SteveITS said in pfSense CE 2.8.1 Beta Now Available!:

Release notes?

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-8-1.html

reberhar

@pfGeorge

Hello,

Since this is a maintence update and the operating system is not changing, do I need to uninstall the packages before applying it? I am just wondering about saving some time.

Thanks

Roy

netblues

@reberhar At least keep a configuration backup and proceed.

You should be fine in general.

reberhar

@reberhar

@reberhar said in pfSense CE 2.8.1 Beta Now Available!:

@pfGeorge

Hello,

Since this is a maintence update and the operating system is not changing, do I need to uninstall the packages before applying it? I am just wondering about saving some time.

Thanks

Roy

I guess after reading the other posts maybe I do need to do the packages.

reberhar

@netblues Thanks

reberhar

@reberhar Piece of cake.

Really fast with no problems.