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    Snapshots are back!

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.1 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      iFloris
      last edited by

      Jim, thanks! This is great.

      one layer of information
      removed

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        bmah
        last edited by

        Thank you Jim, I see the files now.  Now need to schedule some downtime for my firewall box so I can check them out (and hopefully report back on a couple of bug fixes that went in the tree recently).

        Bruce.

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          Supermule Banned
          last edited by

          Jim….any timeframe of 2.1 release version???

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            Not sure on the time frame. We had been shooting for March but that isn't happening ;-)

            Safe to say we want it out in advance of World IPv6 Launch - http://www.worldipv6launch.org/

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              Supermule Banned
              last edited by

              Thx :)

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              • JackLJ
                JackL
                last edited by

                jimp,

                We already know that pfSense 2.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3. This means that only a future pfSense 2.2 are likely to be based on FreeBSD 9.0?

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  @JackL:

                  We already know that pfSense 2.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3. This means that only a future pfSense 2.2 are likely to be based on FreeBSD 9.0?

                  Correct. Though it may be 9.1 or whatever is out when we get there. There were far too many issues with 9 to allow us to release in a timely manner. Not all bad things, just things that changed that we'd have to account for. (one thing was that we would have needed to use 9-STABLE to resolve many issues, but that included the new CARP bits and pf which would have required major overhauls to happen). It's work that can be done, but it's work we'd prefer not to have to debug on top of IPv6 issues.

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                  • JackLJ
                    JackL
                    last edited by

                    All right jimp! ;)

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      Latest i386 run is up and it looks like the ova permissions and sha256 are up ok. Hopefully that's the last of the little random issues… :-)

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                        bmah
                        last edited by

                        JFYI, last night I downloaded pfSense-2.1-DEVELOPMENT-1g-i386-nanobsd-upgrade-20120327-1021.img.gz…it's now running happily on my net5501.

                        Thanks!

                        Bruce.

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                          bman212121
                          last edited by

                          Got to love when you update one thing there are 10 other things to fix. :p

                          One quick question, if you install one of the snapshots will there be the ability to update directly from the firewall? (It shows an update is available on the home screen and you can simply click the update button)

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            yes, if you pick the update url for snapshots on your architecture, it will do auto update

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                              bman212121
                              last edited by

                              Thanks for the reply Jim!

                              Just realized after your reply that if you go into the firmware settings you can change an existing installation to use the snapshots if you wanted. I'm still running an RC build so I can update that box to release without having to reinstall it. :D

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                              • rcfaR
                                rcfa
                                last edited by

                                Given how long updates take when a bunch of packages are installed, is there someone a log where one can see what changed between snapshots?

                                I mean, if there's e.g. a major bug in OpenVPN fixed, I should obviously upgrade, but if a typo in a description is changed, it's pointless, and if an automated build script creates a new snapshot, even though the developers were away for the weekend and nothing changed at all, then even less.

                                If not, what's the recommended interval for updating from one snapshot to the next? Obviously every single snapshot, and my firewall would be updating around the clock. But it's also pointless to test on an outdated build…

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                                • marcellocM
                                  marcelloc
                                  last edited by

                                  Check commits at github and then decide to update or not.

                                  https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commits/master

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                                  • jimpJ
                                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                    last edited by

                                    Recent commits and bug reports/changes/closes can be found here:
                                    http://redmine.pfsense.org/activity

                                    You can sort of judge based on the snapshot time what commits will be in it, but it's not an exact science.

                                    As for the interval, whenever is convenient unless there is a bug fix you need.

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                                      phil.davis
                                      last edited by

                                      http://snapshots.pfsense.org still shows 8.3-RC1-i386 and 8.3-RC1-AMD64 as the FreeBSD version. That's now out of date since the RELENG release of FreeBSD 8.3.

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                                        tritron
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                                        It very strange that 2.1 does not upgrade all packages. I had pkg_delete and pkg_add to get latest versions of packages.
                                        Everytime I install lates snapshot using auto update It kills my postfix. I have to reinstall postfix and mailscanner to get it to work .

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                                        • marcellocM
                                          marcelloc
                                          last edited by

                                          tritron,

                                          Some packages,like postfix and mailscanner, do not have the .pbi files needed by pfsense 2.1 yet.

                                          att,
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                                          • chpalmerC
                                            chpalmer
                                            last edited by

                                            latest 2.1 as of June 1st says its a beta now!    :)

                                            Version 2.1-BETA0 (i386)
                                            built on Fri Jun 1 16:41:00 EDT 2012
                                            FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p2

                                            You are on the latest version.

                                            Great work guys!!

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