2.5.0 builds on XG-7100 - latest build stuck at 27th November, 2020?
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Hi,
I have several Netgate XG-7100 and SG-3100 units on the 2.5.0 development release train.
Lately, when I check for updates, I've noticed that they appear to be stuck at 20201127.0650 (27th November, 2020) - there doesn't appear to be any more recent builds than that, whereas before it was often nightly.
Curious - if this perhaps means 2.5.0 is close to release? =)
Or is there some other change in the backend, and I need to do something to get the latest builds?
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@victorhooi
There have been daily build's after that.
But maybe it has something to do with the type of hardware you have. -
Builds have definitely slowed down over the last 5 days or so with only 2-3 released during that time as far as I can tell, but I am running one built yesterday and there is one available for me to download right now.
2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
built on Sat Dec 05 03:02:37 EST 2020
FreeBSD 12.2-STABLEVersion 2.5.0.a.20201206.0250 is available.
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@vesalius What device are you using this on?
I've checked today for my Netgate XG-7100 - and it's still on the November 27th build:
Does anybody from Netgate have any ideas here? Is this expected behaviour?
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Not on Netgate hardware. I’m using a supermicro e300-8d, but pfSense is installed as a proxmox VM. Just updated 5 minutes ago to Version2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64) built on Sat Dec 19 03:04:44 EST 2020 FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE. Large upgrade including unbound 1.13, bind and most of the php install as well. Still seeing about 1 a day. Not sure why your XG-7100 isn’t seeing these and I am.
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@victorhooi I would reboot pfSense then check for update, if you haven't done so already.
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@nollipfsense Yup, I just rebooted one of the Netgate XG-7100's - and did another update check - it still seems to be stuck on the November 27th update.
(Uptime is 2 minutes, because I just rebooted it).
This seems to be affecting all the Netgate XG-7100's I have.
@stephenw10 Do you happen to have any ideas here please?
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Same problem here with SG-2440, stuck in the same build (Nov 27 07:04:32 EST 2020), reboot didn't change the situation.
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Same issue here on my SG-5100. 27 Nov build at 0650.
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My SG-3100 is also still on 2.5 built on Fri Nov 27 so I guess there are no new ARM versions available for over a month now although x86 versions are released every day?
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@victorhooi
I'm on Xg-7100 same issue. -
Update: decided to re-install my SG-2440 with the 2.5.0 development snapshot installer image; now the updates are again available.
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@miikka hmm interesting . Does anyone know which files determine where the updates are looking? I will have to dig into the update process and the config files .
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@cosmosisjones Wild guess: it looks into /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pfSense.conf
Mine seems to be pointing to beta.pfsense.org but I don't remember what it was before the re-install.
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@cosmosisjones so I think I remember seeing a post from @jimp which indicated that the snapshots are CE versions of pfsense versus the optimized installers that Netgate provides. I double checked the snapshot download page and sure enough, the images are CE. I would strongly suspect that the reason we are not getting new updates from within our existing pfsense installation is because optimized images have not been created for our devices. Jim indicated that the CE images get updated every time a new snapshot is made. So, the question is, do you want to run a CE image or stay on Netgate optimized. My experience in the past with CE was very good. I personally, however, don't feel like doing a fresh install of CE to have most current snapshot, only to them have to do another new install when SG-5100 images of 2.5 are released. You can read up on the types of optimization that Netgate does depending on the hardware. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.html Doesn't seem like something anyone couldn't do but I've adopted the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentally as I've gotten older.
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@miikka my installation shows:
url: "pkg+https://firmware.netgate.com/pkg/pfSense_factory-v2_4_5_amd64-core",
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@gabacho4
Thanks! That would explain a lot!! -
Agree, my approach isn't for everyone, you would also miss the functionalities existing in the Netgate images (AWS wizard etc.).
I am planning to follow the CE development branch until 2.5.0 release, at that moment likely doing another re-install with the Netgate image.
I had some problems with the old version of 2.5.0 from November and because updates weren't available after 27th Nov then this was my best option at the moment; so far looks like the problems are resolved with the newer SW versions.
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I think pfSense-plus solves the mystery of the recent disappearance of pfSense-CE 2.5.0 builds for negate branded hardware.
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@vesalius was thinking the same thing yesterday...