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    Renaming aliases breaks FW rules in 2.5.0

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      pfnow
      last edited by pfnow

      I don't know if this has been reported already, but in 2.5 if you rename an existing alias, the FW rules using it will not get automatically updated with the new name.

      Depending on your setup this can really break things very badly and can be a big pain to manually fix.

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        psp
        last edited by psp

        @pfnow Addressed here

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          pfnow @psp
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          @psp thanks, that worked!

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