Current status of upgrading from pfSense

[Kompiler]

Hello all,

Some of you may know who I am - I apologize if this has been answered prior  but did not see a recent discussion.

What is the status of upgrading to OpnSENSE for someone that is running a pfSense nanobsd image?   I am considering upgrading to OPNsense but I wanted to inquire before bricking my current pfSense box.

TIA!

[franco]

Hi there Kompiler,

there's a bit of history to unroll here... NanoBSD images with the two-slice approach have been removed -- we may put them back at some point but only after we've successfully merged all different modes into one image/installation (even the live cd/memstick does not run on any more custom code except unionfs/tmpfs to cope with the write failures). Too many code paths and exceptions were the initial motivation. Just recently we removed the /cf read-write merge magic because we believed it can be replaced by simpler approaches (just don't write that much). There's also extensive cleaning of system paths, unwinding soft-coded paths that are unlikely to change or won't change because the ports actually hardcode them, e.g. /var/run.

The current target now is providing embedded installations (noatime, no swap etc.) and a release image for SD cards which can be directly written to disk. I expect this to be finished next week hopefully.

So far I don't think we have bricked any installation (knock on wood) and there's a config importer+reinstall viable with the bsdinstaller these days as well as a google drive backup or the plain config export/import.


Hope that helps,
Franco

[franco]

So the nano.sh script is back stripped to a bare minimum. The tweaking is still ongoing, but it's a start: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=342.0

FWIW, talking about upgrading... 2.1.5 upgrades are seamless, the config can be imported without a problem. For 2.2.* we have unclear licensing and config.xml divergence so that doesn't work out of the box, but might work when fiddling with the version number.

[Kompiler]

OK sounds good.  If I am reading you correctly I should wait until next week?

[franco]

We'll ship a working version with a NanoBSD image for 15.1.10 if you're looking for a stable entry point. I can't say whether it'S going to be included in the release itself or sneaked in on the side as a still-in-beta image, but basically, yeah, next week when we wrap up 15.1.10.


Cheers,
Franco

[franco]

The NanoBSD images can be found at https://opnsense.c0urier.net/releases/latest/

Have fun,
Franco