Current Roadmap?
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Given that the community software (stable) hasn't been updated in almost a year, I'm growing concerned about the long-term viability of the pfSense platform.
Should I be looking for an alternative?
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Several threads about this already.
Why not try 2.45 dev? I have been running it for weeks with no issues
The developers are working on it.. why push something prematurely
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Not looking to push; I get software release cycles and the perils of premature releases. My concern is more along the lines of, "I haven't even seen security fixes in almost a year..." Very often, the lack of security and bug fixes over spans of more than about 6 to 9 months in this kind of a product indicate a dead project.
Thanks for the response, I appreciate it - and I will go play with 2.45 dev.
=)
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Yes 2.4.5 should be released relatively soon. Try it on your hardware now to report any specific bugs that may exist we don't know about yet.
2.5 snapshots are also available, any testing / bug reporting that can be done there is helpful.Steve
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I would suggest playing with the v2.5 instead as it represents the change you might be seeking. That's what I did and glad I did. To me, it seems that pfSense is in a state of confusion and its development is spending valuable time getting v2.4.5 release when that time could be spent getting v2.5 that represents the real change we all have been anticipating some two years now.
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i am hesitant to try Development versions. it took me months to try it.
something listed as experimental... i will pass for sure
just my opinion
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@bcruze said in Current Roadmap?:
ust my opinion
That depends on the application. While a home user might want to live dangerously, a business user should never use a development version, unless there's a strong reason to.
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I would not suggest running it in production but many people have a VM host they can easily try a snapshot in.
Or if you're running an unusual config or on some odd hardware now would be a good time to test that. It will be too late if you only discover 2.4.5 doesn't support some obscure network card when you upgrade to the release image.
That said I'm not aware of anything like that currently. But that's exactly what I would expect in this scenario.
Steve
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@kcjeffro said in Current Roadmap?:
Very often, the lack of security and bug fixes over spans of more than about 6 to 9 months in this kind of a product indicate a dead project.
That kind of statement is disingenuous at best. Even a moment's glance at Redmine or Github would show you there is significant ongoing activity.
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I was unaware of the project at Redmine; the work there is, in fact, very encouraging - thank you for that!
Because I suck, it hadn't occurred to me to check for project tracking at Git, so thanks for that too; I genuinely appreciate it.
That said, however, the work tracking at Git is less reassuring; the most significant change in the past month appears to be a copyright update.
In the end, I'll stand by my original concern: From a layman's perspective, Redmine activity or not, no security or bug fixes in publicly released binaries in over 6 to 9 months in a networking product typically doesn't bode well.
Cheers!
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I'm starting to wonder if you're being willfully ignorant. If you only look at LOC changes that may be true that the copyright update stands out but that is far from the only work that happened recently. There have been massive changes to IPsec, Certificates, OpenVPN, and other areas over the last few months on 2.5.0, and tons of bug fixes on 2.4.5.
The fact that you posted without bothering to even look first is also suspicious. If you're looking to troll people or stir up trouble, do it elsewhere.
Locking this.
