pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!
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Upgrade of my primary firewall, an SG-5100, was successful via GUI update. I did experience the following:
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Could not connect OpenVPN. Looks like pfSense Dynamic DNS did not actually update Google DNS after boot. I forced the update (“Save & Force Update”) and all good once propogated.
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Arpwatch continually reported 2 devices flip-flopping on one IP. Rebooted both devices to resolve.
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@plfinch said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:
Upgrade of my primary firewall, an SG-5100, was successful via GUI update. I did experience the following:
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Could not connect OpenVPN. Looks like pfSense Dynamic DNS did not actually update Google DNS after boot. I forced the update (“Save & Force Update”) and all good once propogated.
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Arpwatch continually reported 2 devices flip-flopping on one IP. Rebooted both devices to resolve.
Did you have to redo OpenVPN ovpn config files for clients ?
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The update bricked my SG-1100. Had to access via serial (which took a bit because my OSX tool was not compatible with recent OS). After this serial connect issue was solved - lots of errors on the menu on pretty much every option. Opened a support ticket, downloaded recovery image, and reinstalled. Would recommend anyone with a netgate device to actually do this first just to have as a standby. Things running well now. Having your configuration backed up is a must. Thanks for the update! I hope the reliability of updates improves - I'm like 0/3 now. ;-) New version UI runs faster, package manager runs better - no downsides discovered yet.
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@gpfsenser said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:
Opened a support ticket, downloaded recovery image, and reinstalled. Would recommend anyone with a netgate device to actually do this first just to have as a standby.
Underrated comment right there!
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Did you have to redo OpenVPN ovpn config files for clients ?
No. No changes at all are required on the pfSense appliance or the openvpn client devices after upgrading. The openvpn config information is fully contained in the pfSense backup file. Even swapping to my standby/backup firewall loaded from the same config file, my client devices can connect without issue.
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Opened a support ticket, downloaded recovery image, and reinstalled. Would recommend anyone with a netgate device to actually do this first just to have as a standby.
Even after successfully upgrading my SG-5100 via the GUi, I went back and did a clean install from the memdisk image and reloaded the post-upgrade config backup. I always do this on updates to ensure I have a fresh clean build.
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@plfinch said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:
Opened a support ticket, downloaded recovery image, and reinstalled. Would recommend anyone with a netgate device to actually do this first just to have as a standby.
Even after successfully upgrading my SG-5100 via the GUi, I went back and did a clean install from the memdisk image and reloaded the post-upgrade config backup. I always do this on updates to ensure I have a fresh clean build.
Sounds pretty good actually, I like it the idea of a fresh install and also installing the default file system and other options (I think it’s ZFS now, right?)
So restoring the backup of 2.4.5-p1 onto 21.02 shouldn’t be a problem, right?
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@sebm For me - no issues faced, configuration restore worked on the first attempt.
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I've updated an APU2C4 from 2.4.5p1 to 2.5. After adjusting "Fallback Data Encryption Algorithm" to "None (No Encryption)" the setup was working fine with my uploaded backup data from 2.4.5p1. Also Squid and pfBlockerNG Devil are working well. A real impact is the VPN speed even if I've used nearly the same settings as my VPN provider taught and were existent under 2.4.5p1. I use OpenVPN with NordVPN and after updating the d/l speed is the half. Under 2.4.5p1 I've had about 96mbit now at about 50mbit. I've tried different options also under "Allow Compression" in the VPN Client settings but no change achieved so far. If this will is not getting better I'll go back to 2.4.5p1.
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@tele_01 I've forgot to mention that the processor load was not above 90% via SSH. My feeling is that OpenVPN was different migrated into FreeBSD 11.x than under 12.x within pfSense because on 2.4.5p1 and having sometimes more than 100mbit in d/l (provider hosts max 120mbit) the processor load was at about 94%.
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Upgraded my SG-1100 from 2.4.5p1 to 21.02.. Upgrade went fine. The network was down for 14 minutes, so dont worry if it takes a long time. Everything came up and my 2 VPN tunnels came up again without any issues.
Good Job Netgate! :)
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Upgraded my home custom PC system based on an old HP proudest desktop to 2.5.0 with no major issues. I had to manually start DNS resolver as DNS was not working right after but maybe was just my impatience. OpenVPN server for client works, all IPsec tunnels up.
The only production system I did was an SG-2220 so far at one of our locations over weekend I did remotely. It seemed to go smooth but when I was in there onsite yesterday no Internet but the IPsec tunnels were up. After troubleshooting it was a bad GW which I had left in there from an old static WAN configuration, but it is currently using GW via DHCP. I removed this static GW and made sure the DHCP GW is default which solved the issue and works fine now.
Hesitant to do my SG-5100s maybe will wait a bit and do first while onsite.
I have customer with SG-4860 that has lots of VPN tunnels, VLANs etc. it has been up for 230 days... probably will wait on that one for a while.
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Just tried to upgrade a SG-1100. During the download/install process before the first reboot, I got a failure on certificate verification.
[87/200] Fetching libgpg-error-1.41.txz: .......... done [88/200] Fetching libgcrypt-1.8.7.txz: .......... done [89/200] Fetching libffi-3.3_1.txz: ..... done [90/200] Fetching libevent-2.1.12.txz: .......... done [91/200] Fetching libedit-3.1.20191231,1.txz: .......... done [92/200] Fetching libdnet-1.13_3.txz: ......... done [93/200] Fetching libdaemon-0.14_1.txz: .... done 1082884096:error:141F0006:SSL routines:tls_construct_cert_verify:EVP lib:/usr/local/poudriere/jails/pfSense_plus-v21_02_aarch64/usr/src/crypto/openssl/ssl/statem/statem_lib.c:283: Certificate verification failed for /C=US/ST=Texas/L=Austin/O=Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)/CN=repo00.netgate.com 1082884096:error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed:/usr/local/poudriere/jails/pfSense_plus-v21_02_aarch64/usr/src/crypto/openssl/ssl/statem/statem_clnt.c:1915: Child process pid=29228 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault Failed -
Forgot to mention that since upgrade my SG-2220 seems faster now and can get 900+Mbps on Speedtest.net where before was around 600-700Mbps. ipSEC still seems around 400Mbps, not as fast as 5100 but still good for an older box... just wish it had one more OPT port.
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Please advise how I may return my SG-1100 to the previous version, prior to 21.02.
This new 21.02 is apparently dangerously unstable. My specific symptoms have been manageable so far as they are limited to incorrect and missing display information on the admin portal, but based on these forums, I fear that I may experience serious problems in the future if I stay on 21.02. Thank you in advance for your response.
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@alain-leinbach said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:
advise how I may return my SG-1100 to the previous version, prior to 21.02
Open a ticket at https://go.netgate.com/ to request Netgate firmware.
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@defunct78 I attempted again, and was able to successfully upgrade. Though it looks like I am now having problems with the unbound service not starting. No logs either, which makes it hard to troubleshoot (resolver.log empty). I was able to switch over DNS Fowarder as suggested in here,
https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/lo9ag5/since_upgrading_to_25_dns_resolver_unbound_keeps/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
add have restored services.
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@defunct78 I had the same error exactly.....
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Smooth upgrade as always. Running for more than 24 hours and very happy.
Thanks to the developers for this welcomed upgrade !!!
Keep the good work and take care.
