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    pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!

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      SteveITS Galactic Empire @alain.leinbach
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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.

      Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
      When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
      Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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        defunct78 @defunct78
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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.

        SG-1100 24.03 (ZFS)

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          gpfsenser @defunct78
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          @defunct78 I had the same error exactly.....

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            FileCity
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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.

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              defunct78 @defunct78
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              @defunct78 said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:

              @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.

              As a side note, with Unbound, I was doing this.
              https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/dns-over-tls.html

              Not sure if that broke with the upgrade.

              SG-1100 24.03 (ZFS)

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                rameshk
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                I have installed and configured OpenVPN on my pfSense 2.5 (spare) box yesterday. All working fine so far.

                I need to do bit more experiment to understand the algorithms settings as it struggled to connect with AES-256-GCM. I have set the fall back algorithm to AES-128-CBC.

                I appreciate any suggestions or guidance.

                Thank you

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                  weldong
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                  When 21.02 was released 5 days ago, my SG-3100 showed the upgrade was available. However, by the end of the week (and as of today), it shows I am running the most current version (2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (arm) ). Looks like the new revisions have been pulled?

                  Given this and this thread, i think I will wait for the next minor release before upgrading.

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                    bmeeks @weldong
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                    @weldong said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:

                    When 21.02 was released 5 days ago, my SG-3100 showed the upgrade was available. However, by the end of the week (and as of today), it shows I am running the most current version (2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (arm) ). Looks like the new revisions have been pulled?

                    Given this and this thread, i think I will wait for the next minor release before upgrading.

                    Yes, the Netgate team has temporarily pulled the update for SG-3100 boxes as they work on fixing a bug and testing the fix. Posts over the past weekend suggest the bug has been identified and hopefully fixed. They are testing to be sure before releasing a patched upgrade.

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                      mkryger @bmeeks
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                      @bmeeks
                      Thank you for the info, as i was also a bit confused why it disappeared from my SG-3100.
                      Can you possibly provide a link for the source of this information, so we will be able to follow the progress and get to know about what the bug was about?
                      I find it weird the team didn't inform about this in the original post or made it clear elsewhere in this thread.

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                        SteveITS Galactic Empire @mkryger
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                        @mkryger said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:

                        disappeared from my SG-3100.
                        Can you possibly provide a link

                        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/160959/21-02-sudden-lockup/

                        Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
                        When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
                        Upvote 👍 helpful posts!

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                          bmeeks @mkryger
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                          @mkryger said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:

                          @bmeeks
                          Thank you for the info, as i was also a bit confused why it disappeared from my SG-3100.
                          Can you possibly provide a link for the source of this information, so we will be able to follow the progress and get to know about what the bug was about?
                          I find it weird the team didn't inform about this in the original post or made it clear elsewhere in this thread.

                          @teamits beat me to it, but here is a copy of his link as a clickable one: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/160959/21-02-sudden-lockup/.

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                            chudak @SteveITS
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                            @teamits

                            https://twitter.com/NetgateUSA/status/1362791245546946561

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                              edmund @weldong
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                              @weldong - I wish that I had been as smart as you and not "upgraded" as soon as I saw the alert. My system is a SG-4860 and after a couple of days working on it I think I've got it working reliably again.
                              The main problem that I see with the update process is that you are just told that an update is read to be installed but without any information of details.

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                                bmeeks @mkryger
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                                @mkryger said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:

                                @bmeeks
                                Thank you for the info, as i was also a bit confused why it disappeared from my SG-3100.
                                Can you possibly provide a link for the source of this information, so we will be able to follow the progress and get to know about what the bug was about?
                                I find it weird the team didn't inform about this in the original post or made it clear elsewhere in this thread.

                                I'm not a Reddit user, but I understand something was also posted there by the team (and perhaps on Twitter, but not sure about that one). I'm just not an active social media guys, so I don't follow all those sites.

                                The main bug causing the lockups appears to have been a sort of estoteric thing where the llvm compiler for ARM hardware was reordering some memory reads and writes for optimization, but that reordering, in one particular case, resulted in a thread locking deadlock situation. If this link opens for you, here is the bug fix: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/commit/4b914061a48bb289ede4d3a7362ed6adf9378c0f. This is also being backported into FreeBSD-12, I believe.

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                                  yepitro1986
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                                  Still no GUI for ZFS?

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                                    yepitro1986
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                                    and how about ZFS email notification, is it available on Pfsense 2.5.0

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                                      brians
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                                      Upgraded SG-5100 to 21.02.
                                      IPsec seems to have issue. Tunnels connect but some are duplicated and shown as disconnected at bottom of Status->IPsec page but instead create a different IPsec ID with a larger con# eg. con400000 vs typical lower number like con1000. These large connections have same information and show connection except there is blank where name should be. If I identify one what it should be and disconnect, reconnecting the "correct" one, or sending IP traffic across a tunnel still creates these incorrect IDs. This also slows down the interface when loading status. Some tunnels are fine and do not have this behaviour. I deleted the tunnels and recreated and same problem.
                                      Anyone else ever see this?
                                      Here is example (which IP address blocked out) that shows disconnected an a con400000 that actually connects...

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                                        elvisimprsntr
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                                        Seems there is a problem with updating snort GPLv2 suricata rules.

                                        Anyone else seen this problem?

                                        Starting rules update...  Time: 2021-02-25 07:03:23
                                        	Downloading Emerging Threats Open rules md5 file...
                                        	Checking Emerging Threats Open rules md5 file...
                                        	Emerging Threats Open rules are up to date.
                                        	Downloading Snort GPLv2 Community Rules md5 file...
                                        	Snort GPLv2 Community Rules md5 download failed.
                                        	%#ff26000)[Server returned error code 404.
                                        	Server error message was: 404 Not Found]
                                        	Snort GPLv2 Community Rules will not be updated.
                                        The Rules update has finished.  Time: 2021-02-25 07:03:23
                                        
                                        
                                        
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                                          bmeeks @elvisimprsntr
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                                          @elvisimprsntr said in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0 and pfSense Plus 21.02 now available!:

                                          Seems there is a problem with updating snort GPLv2 suricata rules.

                                          Anyone else seen this problem?

                                          Starting rules update...  Time: 2021-02-25 07:03:23
                                          	Downloading Emerging Threats Open rules md5 file...
                                          	Checking Emerging Threats Open rules md5 file...
                                          	Emerging Threats Open rules are up to date.
                                          	Downloading Snort GPLv2 Community Rules md5 file...
                                          	Snort GPLv2 Community Rules md5 download failed.
                                          	%#ff26000)[Server returned error code 404.
                                          	Server error message was: 404 Not Found]
                                          	Snort GPLv2 Community Rules will not be updated.
                                          The Rules update has finished.  Time: 2021-02-25 07:03:23
                                          
                                          
                                          

                                          Are you running Suricata and using the Snort GPLv2 Community Rules?

                                          What is the version of your Suricata package?

                                          And what hardware and pfSense type? Is is CE or pfSense+ (on Netgate hardware)?

                                          This line in your update log is very puzzling:

                                          %#ff26000)[Server returned error code 404.
                                          

                                          It's the "%#ff26000)" part that is weird. Almost like some kind of memory corruption occurred.

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                                            elvisimprsntr @bmeeks
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                                            @bmeeks

                                            I tried to color code the error message in red when I posted the log output, unfortunately I cannot edit my OP.

                                            I am running Suricata 6.0.0_8

                                            Hardware is a https://protectli.com/product/fw4a/

                                            Running pfsense CE

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