To 2.5.0 or not ? that is the question :)

[johnpoz]

Its never a good idea to upgrade such a system without some thought to it..

Even if not a "production" system in a corporation or business.. It quite often is your connection to the internet.. If that breaks in any way - it can have all kinds of consequences.. Even if that is just your significant other or kids screaming at you that netflix is not freaking working ;)

I pulled the trigger last night vs waiting til early morning (wife not up yet time frame)... And while playing with trying to get zfs working - I got that - hey you doing something with the internet yell ;)

So I just did UFS and was backup in a few minutes..

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[trony]

@johnpoz said in To 2.5.0 or not ? that is the question :):

I pulled the trigger last night vs waiting til early morning (wife not up yet time frame)... And while playing with trying to get zfs working - I got that - hey you doing something with the internet yell ;)

LOL. I know exactly what you are talking about. Been there too many times.

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[juanpadiaz]

We have had a very bad experience with the update to version 2.5 or 21.02 as it appears on the dashboard, and this has more to do with support for previous versions, I have more than 100 devices running on version 2.4.5-RELEASE -p1 and none of these allow me to update or install packages from the package manager

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[bmeeks]

@juanpadiaz said in To 2.5.0 or not ? that is the question :):

We have had a very bad experience with the update to version 2.5 or 21.02 as it appears on the dashboard, and this has more to do with support for previous versions, I have more than 100 devices running on version 2.4.5-RELEASE -p1 and none of these allow me to update or install packages from the package manager

You should be able to install packages on the 2.4.5 RELEASE if you go to the Update Manager screen and change the drop-down to "Previous Stable Version" (or something akin to that wording). That will reset pkg on your system to reference and use the older repository.

However, if you have already tried to install a 2.5 package onto pfSense-2.4.5, you may have corrupted pkg as it would get updated with the latest version which is likely to have issues with the shared libraries present in the older 2.4.5 pfSense. Note that packages in the 2.4.5 repository tree will stay at their current versions. Updates to packages will only happen in the "current" pfSense release which is now either 2.5 or 21.02, depending on whether you are using Community Edition on generic hardware, or running the new pfSense+ on Netgate hardware.

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[juanpadiaz]

@bmeeks Many thanks, we are using Netgate hardware but we already try to install packages from a 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1, never updated one, and the package manager just gives us, and the premium support doesn't have the right response yet, we can not just upgrade all of our production devices without any tests, but any device with the version 2.4.5-p1 or older are not able to download or install packages via the package manager.

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[SeaMonkey]

None of my static routes are active in my routing table after upgrading. I tried disabling and re-enabling to no avail.

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