How to update to the latest Tailscale version?
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Greetings
So I have Tailscale installed on a number of devices, including my pfSense router through the provided package. All is working great but I am not sure how I can update the package to use the latest Tailscale version.
As of today, Tailscale is on version 1.30
All my devices are on 1.30 except pfSense which is still using 1.26.2 (so 2 releases behind).The Tailscale pfSense package itself is on 0.1.0_1 with a dependency on 1.26.2
Do I need to wait for the pfSense package to be updated (from 0.1.0_1 to ...) or is there a way to manually update the dependency from 1.26.2 to 1.30?
Any thoughts/guidance greatly appreciated :)
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@mcding you need to wait til the package for freebsd is updated for the specific version of freebsd.
If you look over at
https://www.freshports.org/security/tailscale/
You will notice for the version of freebsd pfsense uses 12.3, it is the latest, now newer versions of freebsd after a later version. Looks like only FreeBSD:14:i386 has the 1.30.0 available
Need to wait til package for freebsd, and then pfsense can be updated once pfsense updates its packages.
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@johnpoz Thanks for the quick reply and the clarification! I will hence wait for the update :)
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@johnpoz Who would I need to poke to get the right versions updated? Looking at the provided link, only the quarterly versions are stuck on 1.26.1, where latest FreeBSD 12 has the lastest tailscale 1.30.1 release.
Currently exit nodes in pfsense on versions prior to 1.30.1 fully break all browsing on chrome based browsers, so it's quite important for me to get this updated somehow.
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@zerozshadow I know it’s not advised but I was having problems with the old version and chrome so I switched to the freeBSD repo and upgraded to 1.30.2 and then switched back to the pfSense repo without any issues.
The update has also solved my problems.!
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@jimbojack Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd rather wait for a propper solution.
I'm a bit disappointed that there was so much talk about the tailscale packing being on pfSense when it came out, to the point we literally have it's own sub forum here. And then it was completely dropped.
I've started a chat with the port maintainer to see if all FreeBSD versions can be upgrade to 1.30.2, since only the i386 version is up to date atm. Lets hope pfSense picks it back up after everything is up to date, so that tailscale can be fully functional again.
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@zerozshadow which version are you after? I'm using FreeBSD:12:amd64 1.30.2
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@jimbojack It does seem that, just today, the amd64 version has been updated to 1.30.2
Now I just have to figure out how to upgrade, as i'm not familiar with FreeBSD at all
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1.32 is out now with support for NextDNS (which I am also using).
Just giving this post another ping with the hope that pfSense will soon update the package. :)
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@mcding It seems this just isn't going to happen until 23.01
They have been consitently updating the package on thedevelbranch, but none of these upgrade get backported to main.
See https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commits/devel/security/tailscale -
@johnpoz said in How to update to the latest Tailscale version?:
https://www.freshports.org/security/tailscale/
This appears to have been updated to 1.32.1. Any reason why pfSense is not updating its packages?
I have a Netgate 3100 running ARM and all the packages for FreeBSD-12 appear to be there and up-to-dote? There doesn't appear to be any package there for ARM...who built the tailscale package for pfSense that I am running?
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@jimbojack Would you mind sharing some instructions on how you changed the repo to FreeBSD update tailscale and then back to pfsense?
Thanks. -
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2024 update:
Get the link for the FreeBSD 14 package, SSH into the firewall and run:pkg add -f "URL"
Replace "URL" with the URL of the latest version of the package.
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@tariqali
I found how!Disclaimer: It seems to work but do at your own risk!
- Uninstall Tailscale from pfSense. (No configurations will be lost)
- Connect to the firewall with SSH.
- Select option 8.
- Enter "pkg add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/tailscale-1.32.2.pkg"
(Package Source: https://freebsd.pkgs.org/12/freebsd-amd64/tailscale-1.32.2.pkg.html)
(Netgate guide: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/freebsd-pkg-repo.html#installing-packages) - Now Tailscale 1.32.2 will be installed but you won't have any way to control it from the pfSense WebGUI.
- Reinstall Tailscale as you would normally from the pfSense package manager.
- The install process will install everything pfSense need but will skip the Tailscale 1.26.2 installation as a newer version is already installed.
- Go to the Tailscale settings in pfSense and enable it back on.
- Go to the Tailscale webportal and you should see that your pfSense client is now on 1.32.2
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@mhache
Fantastic, thanks for sharing, I really appreciate it. -
I did the upgrade, did anyone notice who uses NextDNS that you get a ton of hits for
api.bgpview.io? -
@johnpoz There appear to be updated packages available here:
https://freebsd.pkgs.org/12/freebsd-aarch64/tailscale-1.32.2.pkg.html
https://freebsd.pkgs.org/12/freebsd-amd64/tailscale-1.32.2.pkg.htmlIs there anything else holding this up?
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@wavesound said in How to update to the latest Tailscale version?:
Is there anything else holding this up?
You would have to ask the developers - working on the new versions of pfsense would be my guess. Some pretty big changes coming with the move to new version of freebsd, etc.
It might be possible that the snapshots for 2.7 or 23.01 have updated their package for tailscale??
But looks like @mhache posted a method on getting 1.32.2 via a work around.
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EXCELLENT! @mhache that worked perfectly!
updated my amd64 install to v1.34.1...
-- check the latest version available on the repository for FreeBSD 12 for your architecture (e.g. amd64) and change the .pkg file name in the "pkg add ...:" command
so... "pkg add ..... /All/tailscale-1.34.1.pkg" worked for meALSO, I was able to use the "Command Prompt" option under the Diagnostics menu instead of using SSH. (while logged in as "admin"). (that's instead of steps 2 & 3 in mhache's instructions
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Awesome. Thanks @mhache Works on 1.34.2 as well.
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/All/tailscale-1.34.2.pkg -
Tailscale binary has been updated in our ports tree. No need to side-load the binary package :)
