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    Upgrading from 2.4.4_3 to 2.5.1

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      Balanga
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      After getting my system back the other day I thought it was time to upgrade so I went to:-

      System -> Update

      and it shows latest Base system as 2.5.1
      I click Confirm to Confirm Update

      After a while I see the msg:-

      Please wait while the update system initializes

      I've been waiting for this process to finish since yesterday.

      Is there any way to confirm that the update has actually started? It may keep timing out for all I know. Can I check anything on the filesystem to monitor progress if any?

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        0x00FE 0 @Balanga
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        @balanga I'm unaware if the progress shows over the console, you might want to give that a try, but in general it should not take that long and the progress should appear in the browser.
        Anyways I do not advise you to upgrade to 2.5.1 at the moment as there is a NAT issue affecting many people, specially if you are using multi WAN setup.

        Always make sure you have a backup of your configuration before you upgrade.

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          Balanga @0x00FE 0
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          @0x00fe-0 said in Upgrading from 2.4.4_3 to 2.5.1:

          @balanga I'm unaware if the progress shows over the console, you might want to give that a try, but in general it should not take that long and the progress should appear in the browser.
          Anyways I do not advise you to upgrade to 2.5.1 at the moment as there is a NAT issue affecting many people, specially if you are using multi WAN setup.

          Always make sure you have a backup of your configuration before you upgrade.

          I tried option 13) Update from Console and got:-

          Updating repositories metadata

          Then something about wrong OS version...

          and Unable to update repository pfSense.

          Do I need to run freebsd-update first if I'm on the wrong OS version? I'm using 11.2 and I think the update uses 12.2

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            0x00FE 0 @Balanga
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            @balanga check Troubleshooting Upgrades
            Also, you might try System -> Update
            Select the "Previous stable version" and do incremental upgrade to "2.4.5" first and instead of one single big upgrade to "2.5.1" since you are still on "2.4.4_3"

            Also, I would still recommend you do an upgrade to "2.5.0" but not "2.5.1" due to the NAT issue I mentioned before.
            pfSense 2.5.1 multi-WAN routing trouble
            PFsense CE 2.5.1 NAT broken on interface != default WAN

            Of course if everything fails, the cleanest way is to backup your configuration and do a fresh install then restore.

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              Balanga @0x00FE 0
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              @0x00fe-0

              After jumping through countless hoops I have managed to upgrade from 2.4.4_3 to 2.4.5_1 and would like to upgrade to 2.5.x, but don't see how to go about doing this..

              I'm supposed to.
              Please select the branch from which to update the system firmware..

              I select 2.4.5 (DEPRECATED) but I'm told that the status is Up to date.

              Looked at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-guide.html

              Followed everything there but no signs of an upgrade.

              I don't see any msgs in the GUI where I can confirm that I want to upgrade to 2.5.x.

              What am I missing?

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                Cool_Corona @Balanga
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                @balanga Dont. 2.4.5p1 is the last stable release

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