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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      @techpro2004 said in 2.4.5 date?:

      Is there any chance that soon-ish means next week. I will have some free time then.

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        seanmcb
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        @jimp 2.4.4 was released in May, i.e. over half a year ago. That's a very long time to not have any security updates. FreeBSD itself, nginx, PHP, etc. have all had security updates since then. Hopefully none of them are exploitable in pfsense's usage, but it would be nice to have more frequent security updates.

        In fact, running 'pkg audit -F' outputs a whole bunch of stuff:

        expat-2.2.5 is vulnerable:
        expat2 -- Fix extraction of namespace prefixes from XML names
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/c5bd8a25-99a6-11e9-a598-f079596b62f9.html

        expat-2.2.5 is vulnerable:
        expat2 -- Fix extraction of namespace prefixes from XML names
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/6856d798-d950-11e9-aae4-f079596b62f9.html

        curl-7.64.0 is vulnerable:
        curl -- multiple vulnerabilities
        CVE: CVE-2019-5482
        CVE: CVE-2019-5481
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/9fb4e57b-d65a-11e9-8a5f-e5c82b486287.html

        curl-7.64.0 is vulnerable:
        curl -- multiple vulnerabilities
        CVE: CVE-2019-5436
        CVE: CVE-2019-5435
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/dd343a2b-7ee7-11e9-a290-8ddc52868fa9.html

        php72-7.2.10 is vulnerable:
        php -- env_path_info underflow in fpm_main.c can lead to RCE
        CVE: CVE-2019-11043
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/6a7c2ab0-00dd-11ea-83ce-705a0f828759.html

        libnghttp2-1.32.0 is vulnerable:
        nghttp2 -- multiple vulnerabilities
        CVE: CVE-2019-9513
        CVE: CVE-2019-9511
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/121fec01-c042-11e9-a73f-b36f5969f162.html

        unbound-1.9.1 is vulnerable:
        unbound -- parsing vulnerability
        CVE: CVE-2019-16866
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/108a4be3-e612-11e9-9963-5f1753e0aca0.html

        unbound-1.9.1 is vulnerable:
        unbound -- parsing vulnerability
        CVE: CVE-2019-18934
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/ffc80e58-0dcb-11ea-9673-4c72b94353b5.html

        nginx-1.14.1,2 is vulnerable:
        NGINX -- Multiple vulnerabilities
        CVE: CVE-2019-9516
        CVE: CVE-2019-9513
        CVE: CVE-2019-9511
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/87679fcb-be60-11e9-9051-4c72b94353b5.html

        libidn2-2.0.5 is vulnerable:
        libidn2 -- roundtrip check vulnerability
        CVE: CVE-2019-12290
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/f04f840d-0840-11ea-8d66-75d3253ef913.html

        oniguruma-6.8.1 is vulnerable:
        oniguruma -- multiple vulnerabilities
        CVE: CVE-2019-13225
        CVE: CVE-2019-13224
        WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/a8d87c7a-d1b1-11e9-a616-0992a4564e7c.html

        It would be nice to have more frequent minor releases to address issues like there.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          We are well aware of everything in that regard. We don't need convincing. They're coming, and we're working on them, but we aren't going to rush things.

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            seanmcb
            last edited by

            Thanks for the fast reply. I didn't think you needed convincing on the what, but maybe on the when. :)

            For sure there is a balance between: releasing too often, with too little testing; and cramming too much into a release and waiting too long.

            pfsense 2.4.4 is 7 months old on Monday. That's a very long time. I've bought 3 appliances from netgate, but it's to the point now that I'm researching alternatives.

            I can't help but contrast with OPNsense (which I've never used), which seems to act on security updates very quickly.

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              bobbenheim
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              The 2.4.5 development snapshots is up, for the ones who haven't noticed :)

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                techpro2004
                last edited by

                Now that the fixes are in for the sg-3100 and we are down to 15 issues, I am wondering if there is a better idea of a release date. Thanks

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                • jahonixJ
                  jahonix @MORGiON
                  last edited by

                  @techpro2004 said in 2.4.5 date?:

                  Now that the fixes are in for the sg-3100 and we are down to 15 issues, I am wondering if there is a better idea of a release date. Thanks

                  @MORGiON said in 2.4.5 date?:

                  @techpro2004 when itโ€™s ready

                  Nothing changed. Why is this so hard to understand? ๐Ÿ™„

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                    techpro2004
                    last edited by

                    Jimp, anything

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      Soon.

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                        techpro2004
                        last edited by

                        Soon is a relative term. For example silicondust announced their prime 6 many years ago saying it would be out soon but it is still not available. Can you give us a better idea then that? thanks.

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                        • MORGiONM
                          MORGiON @techpro2004
                          last edited by

                          @techpro2004 follow the redmine

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                            techpro2004
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                            The redmine does not have an idea of a release date, only what is left. Also it went up not down since I last looked.

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                              provels
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                              Possible solution? I suggest an "Ignore Thread" button for the forum...

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                              • MORGiONM
                                MORGiON @techpro2004
                                last edited by

                                @techpro2004 Correct, that's as close as your going to get to a date.

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                                  techpro2004
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                                  "I'm getting closer to my boat" The question is how close? There are more tickets open now then when I started this thread.

                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyF5J7au1jE

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                                  • chpalmerC
                                    chpalmer @techpro2004
                                    last edited by

                                    @techpro2004 said in 2.4.5 date?:

                                    There are more tickets open now then when I started this thread.

                                    Actually.. There were more than 15 open when you started and now only 13 open as you post this. So..

                                    ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                                    • JeGrJ
                                      JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator
                                      last edited by JeGr

                                      Can't understand people here. Are any of you thinking hitting F5 every 5 minutes and spamming "release when!?" and complaining about even more tickets will get you the release any sooner? They could release right this moment. And everyone would bitch back how they could do such ab shitty job releasing such a buggy release etc. etc. It's completely normal that when working on burning down the last tickets new issues arise and bugs pop up. Better now in testing then in production.
                                      What do you really want? A stable and safe to upgrade 2.4.5 release or a rush-job so you get your new shiny version number on your dashboard? ๐Ÿ™„ If it's the last one - just install the 2.4.5 snapshots. You'll even get a new release number every few hours when new releases were built ๐Ÿ˜„

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                                      • jimpJ
                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        Counting issues is a poor metric for how close we are to a release, especially when the count is this low.

                                        A little trivia:

                                        Of the 12 issues remaining open on 2.4.5:

                                        • 6 are in feedback state in need of testing (And one of those is an issue in a package which is not a blocker)
                                        • 4 are release-related tasks (write release notes, SAs, blog post, update docs) and are not bugs
                                        • 2 are actual bugs that remain to be solved

                                        As with any release, if you want to see it released faster, test the snapshots and report any issues you find.

                                        Nothing short of confirming things work properly will speed up the release process.

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                                        • GertjanG
                                          Gertjan
                                          last edited by Gertjan

                                          Would love to test.
                                          On a live system, with captive portal users ...
                                          I'm waiting for Luiz ....

                                          No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                          Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                            techpro2004
                                            last edited by

                                            And then there were only 5 issues left. Are we looking at this week or next? Thanks.

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