Is there a way to set the firmware version and upgrade pfSense from the console?

[T145]

Doing it through the "Update" UI is clunky and has caused the pkg command to break a couple times when simply selecting different firmware versions to check from the selection dropdown. If there's a way to handle this completely through console commands it would be a life-saver.

[jimp]

There isn't a console-based method of selecting the upgrade branch at the moment, but you can run the upgrade check (pfSense-upgrade -c) and the actual upgrade (pfSense-upgrade) from the console.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-guide-update.html#upgrading-using-the-console

[T145]

@jimp I have pfSense-upgrade -d set on a CRON task, but thanks for the tip! Is there a way to downgrade at all w/out installing from a flash drive?

[jimp]

Running pfSense-upgrade from a cron job is a terrible idea.

There is no way to downgrade.

[rcoleman-netgate]

@t145 said in Is there a way to set the firmware version and upgrade pfSense from the console?:

Is there a way to downgrade at all w/out installing from a flash drive?

Presently it's all a live filesystem, and your config file post-upgrade is incompatible with older releases.

This might be functional in the future with ZFS but as I understand right now that's not possible.

[T145]

@jimp said in Is there a way to set the firmware version and upgrade pfSense from the console?:

Running pfSense-upgrade from a cron job is a terrible idea.

There is no way to downgrade.

Noted; I'll remove the entry xd

[stephenw10]

You can roll-back to an earlier BE snapshots if you re using ZFS. I have tested that between 23.01 and 22.05.

Steve