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    • D Offline
      drzoidberg33
      last edited by

      Great work by all the devs, this is a really good step forward.

      I had no issues so far with the upgrade, some things in the UI are still a little rough around the edges but less so than before.

      Thumbs up from me!

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        trekkie
        last edited by

        I successfully upgraded to 2.3 from 2.2.6 on my 4860.

        The only thing acting weird was Squid would not start, but it also wouldn't write an error on why.  I scrolled through the logs and only found this:

        Apr 13 09:09:42 squid 99607 Squid Parent: will start 1 kids
        Apr 13 09:09:42 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 315 started
        Apr 13 09:09:43 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 315 exited with status 1
        Apr 13 09:09:46 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 7179 started
        Apr 13 09:09:46 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 7179 exited with status 1
        Apr 13 09:09:49 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 32303 started
        Apr 13 09:09:49 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 32303 exited with status 1
        Apr 13 09:09:52 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 40231 started
        Apr 13 09:09:53 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 40231 exited with status 1
        Apr 13 09:09:56 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 47132 started
        Apr 13 09:09:56 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 47132 exited with status 1
        Apr 13 09:09:56 squid 99607 Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 47132 will not be restarted due to repeated, frequent failures
        Apr 13 09:09:56 squid 99607 Exiting due to repeated, frequent failures

        Squid was giving me some issues with my small network prior to this, so I just removed it until I have time to figure out the appropriate settings that won't throttle/choke/die whenever a steam client updates or a game updates.

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          kpa
          last edited by

          I got some PHP errors on first boot after the upgrade but they didn't show up on second boot anymore. Everything worked fine though from the first boot and onwards.

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          • H Offline
            Heimire
            last edited by

            Upgraded from 2.2.6 to 2.3 in minutes with out any problems.

            Have a few packages installed:
            pfblockerng
            nmap
            autobackup
            openvpnclientexport

            Like the new interface.

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            • D Offline
              deddric
              last edited by

              worked like a charm, 2.2.6 -> 2.3 atom box

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              • S Offline
                Stepinsky
                last edited by

                Had no issues at all using GUI update.

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                  heper
                  last edited by

                  thus far i've updated 4 systems remotely. all worked fine as I expected.

                  1 of systems that had an old 2.1.4-release running had an issue with reinstalling some packages upon initial boot; reinstalling them after the upgrade fixed that.

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                    antillie
                    last edited by

                    Upgraded from 2.2.6 to 2.3. No issues.

                    I can finally control the IPv6 RA and DHCPv6 server settings on LAN interfaces that track the WAN interface for IPv6 prefix delegation. Been wanting this feature for a while as it makes it much simpler to set things up so that all the hosts on my LAN use my internal DNS server. The new UI is pretty slick too.

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                      borgotech
                      last edited by

                      Me to :) , upgraded from 2.2.6 to 2.3 successfully, on my  Dell 850, RAID1, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
                      2 CPUs, 8 Gb DDR2 ECC. Thank u PFSense Team you are "GREAT" !!!!

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                        MMapplebeck
                        last edited by

                        I've upgraded 5 systems in the past 24 hours, all production systems.

                        1x SG-8860
                        1x SG-2220
                        1x SG-2440
                        1x Dell PowerEdge 320
                        1x VM

                        Not a single issue

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                          kb1ujs
                          last edited by

                          Upgraded from 2.2.6 to 2.3 in less than 10 minutes last night with no issues.  Atom D525, 64 bit.

                          Still finding my way around the new menus, but the box is fast and stable.

                          Nice job devs!

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                            Hugovsky
                            last edited by

                            Upgrade 2.2.6 to 2.3 went without a problem. 8 ipsec site-to-site tunnels, snort, pfblockerNG and freeradius. Everything working ok after update. Thank you all that worked/tested/contributed in some way to make pfSense amazing.

                            Wish I could send you all a beer. 8)

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                              lobotiger
                              last edited by

                              Upgraded today from 2.2.6 to 2.3 on a Zotac mini computer and so far everything appears to be working fine.  Snort and OpenDNS are really the only things extra that I'm using and both are working ok.  New interface is interesting…might take some time to get used it after all these years with the older one.

                              The only oddities I noticed was a message about layer 7 traffic shaping no longer supported. Going to need to look into to that as I was using it before.  And the RRD traffic graphs no longer being available.  I really liked having one page where I could see my traffic utilization from hours to years nicely represented.  Also from another thread, I too would like to see the total amount of transferred data brought back to the graph section.  This was handy to compare my usage vs what my ISP tells me.

                              Good job everyone!

                              LoboTiger

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                                Blade Runner
                                last edited by

                                Upgraded to 2.3 from 2.2.6 in minutes without issues. New UI will take some time getting familiar with it. No packages installed to date. PIA works like a charm.

                                Thanks.

                                Do not be afraid to fail.

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                                  jdeloach
                                  last edited by

                                  Upgraded from 2.2.6 to 2.3 with no issues.  Was a little hesitant to upgrade after seeing some of the issues some were having after upgrading but decided what the hey, go for it.

                                  The new UI is going to take some getting use to.  My system is pretty generic with only a couple packages installed so hopefully it will work with no issues.

                                  Good job guys with the upgrade.

                                  Thanks.

                                  Edit:  One day after upgrading to 2.3, I'm having network connectivity issues.  They are intermittent.  Not sure if this is related to 2.3 or not but did not have these issues with 2.2.6.

                                  I am going back to 2.2.6 for now.  It was stable.  I guess as they always say, if it ain't broke don't fix it.  I'm not that software knowledgeable and don't have another hard drive with a working version so I can change back to so that I can post to this forum, so I can't help the folks figure out what might be wrong.  I saw other comments of similar issues when 2.3 was first released so I'll wait till someone else figures the problem out.

                                  Thanks.

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                                    bennyc
                                    last edited by

                                    +3/4 here.

                                    1x APU1C2 (test system)
                                    1x APU1D4 (production FW)
                                    1x VM (test system)

                                    all full installs, no nanobsd.
                                    1 system did not make it, but that's outside this topic  ;D

                                    4x XG-7100 (2xHA), 1x SG-4860, 1x SG-2100
                                    1x PC Engines APU2C4, 1x PC Engines APU1C4

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                                      poohbah10
                                      last edited by

                                      Very smooth upgrade from 2.2.6. I had been testing the RCs and expected to do a complete rebuild like I did when moving from 2.1.x to 2.2.x; turned out to be unnecessary.  Great job to all involved in this release.

                                      Packages correctly updated were squid, squidguard, snort, cron, open vmtools.  OpenVPN connection transitioned without a hitch.

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                                        craymore
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi all.

                                        This post to confirm a 2.2.6 -> 2.3 migration on a pfsense ALIX based appliance.

                                        From a functional pov, all is good :)

                                        However, looking at the system logs indicate that there are a couple of issues behind the scenes :

                                        • nginx: 2016/04/14 16:28:49 [error] 27749#0: 3377 upstream timed out (60: Operation timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: , server: , request: "GET /widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php?getupdatestatus=1 HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php-fpm.socket", host: "", referrer: "https://***/"

                                        • /widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php: / File system is dirty.

                                        • /widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php: The command '/sbin/mount -u -w -o sync,noatime /' returned exit code '1', the output was 'mount: /dev/ufs/pfsense0: Device busy'

                                        • /widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php: The command '/sbin/mount -u -w -o sync,noatime /' returned exit code '1', the output was 'mount: /dev/ufs/pfsense0: Operation not permitted'

                                        Might be related to NanoBSD versions but not sure

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                                          edmund
                                          last edited by

                                          I upgraded a NetGate box yesterday and had no problems with the actual upgrade process - however for some reason the upgrade to 2.3 added a couple of new packages to the system … my first thought was WTF - sneaking some extra packages in during an upgrade is not good policy so I killed them both.

                                          Now, about the new interface - I guess it looks good on a iPhone? ... I'm trying very hard to be positive here.

                                          I have no plans to ever use an iPhone unless Stevie gets reincarnated.

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                                            Hugovsky
                                            last edited by

                                            @edmund:

                                            …

                                            Now, about the new interface - I guess it looks good on a iPhone? ... I'm trying very hard to be positive here.

                                            I have no plans to ever use an iPhone unless Stevie gets reincarnated.

                                            I have to say that it was exactly my first impression… difficult to view things at a glance, confusing, too big font... But, after 2 days, I have to say that I have now a different opinion. I'm getting used to it and really enjoying it. Dashboard easier to read, more customable... and a modern look. But this is just my opinion.

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