This update was absolutely flawless. This never happened to me. Even on machines with very simple setup. I was running OPNSense 23.1 on Protectli FW4B with coreboot BIOS. I have several OpenVPN and WireGuard tunels as well as tons of VLANs with complex firewall rules and unbound with blacklisting enabled + custom feeds. I was 100% convinced that somethig will go bad and i had my USB flash drive ready for reinstallation. At one point, i even cosidered to do clean install without even trying to update.
It turned out i was VERY wrong. Excelent job Mr. Franco and OPNSense team. Keep up the good work !!!!
Same here for my N100 VM.
Even Zenarmor works fine.
Awesome work, OPNsense team! :)
Already heard from a friend that everything on both HA devices went fine.
However and as always I will wait few days and more until I'll go ahead.
Looking forward to more positive experiences... :)
Same here. Wow2. Even with adguard.
I confim, same thing for the update with wireguard. Perfect.
Still have a setup issue obviously https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=35088.0
Thx alot works great
Realy good job all
//Peter
Great job OPNsense project. System Upgrade still OK!!!
Awesome upgrade! Everything is working great! Thank you!
I like reading posts like these. The usual norm in forums is always about things not working. This gives me more confidence to update.
I'm new with OPNsense but not unfamiliar with operating systems, in general but to my knowledge updating from one minor version to the next should be without issues most of the time. Since OPNsense is based on FreeBSD I would expect the same, is that not the case with OPNsense most of the time?
Quote from: Hydranet on August 16, 2023, 06:18:31 PM
I'm new with OPNsense but not unfamiliar with operating systems, in general but to my knowledge updating from one minor version to the next should be without issues most of the time. Since OPNsense is based on FreeBSD I would expect the same, is that not the case with OPNsense most of the time?
OPNSense uses a date versioning system like Ubuntu and several other projects. So it's not Major.Minor.Patch but instead Year.Month.Minor_Patch
Typically upgrading from one release to the other is pretty issue free, but occasionally there are releases which have bigger changes, such as the case with 23.7.
just to report: upgrade from 23.1 to "OPNsense 23.7.1_3-amd64" went completely flawless - yes, I almost stopped breathing for some time but it simply took around 5-10 minutes (I don't remember).
That was on done one dedicated machine:
Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz (4 cores, 4 threads)
2x 250GB SSD in raid
16GB RAM
4x 2.5Gbps NICs
thank you all for great job
Quote from: CJ on August 17, 2023, 02:14:55 PM
OPNSense uses a date versioning system like Ubuntu and several other projects. So it's not Major.Minor.Patch but instead Year.Month.Minor_Patch
Typically upgrading from one release to the other is pretty issue free, but occasionally there are releases which have bigger changes, such as the case with 23.7.
I was actually looking at the FreeBSD version it was based on and because it being based on FreeBSD and couldn't see why an upgrade could go badly wrong if they are still based on the same major FreeBSD version. Thanks for sharing that comparison, that makes more sense now of how the OPNsense versioning works.
To be frank FreeBSD makes a big deal out of .x releases and the higher we go on .x the more regressions can take place as less and less users work on older releases when newer "major" versions come out like there will be 14.0 and then user base for 13.3 will decline.
And don't get me started on why we will rigorously avoid .0 releases... ;)
Cheers,
Franco
So... we can expect 14.1 in 24.7 - maybe - depending on how much delay 14.0 will incur in the meantime and going forward.
( By that time the "lucky" ones will be running #something on "FreeBSD 15 pre-beta maybe alpha" if the trend holds :D )
Quote from: newsense on August 18, 2023, 11:32:42 PM
( By that time the "lucky" ones will be running #something on "FreeBSD 15 pre-beta maybe alpha" if the trend holds :D )
Why would you call that lucky? It's an unstable version of FreeBSD. Actually I'm very happy to see that OPNsense 23.7 stayed with FreeBSD 13.2 and didn't choose a dev build like pfSense because it's a stable release. To me it feels better having a OS version that is considered stable for my firewall instead of a dev build that is full of bugs.
To be honest, i think that FreeBSD has reached a point where, no matter the version, it just works.
Quote from: alex303 on August 20, 2023, 02:57:24 PM
To be honest, i think that FreeBSD has reached a point where, no matter the version, it just works.
That may be true, but shipping a "release" that doesn't even have a corresponding stable/14 branch seems risky to me too. I always wonder about it.
I was also reluctant to move from FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2, but so far that seems to hold up fine.
It's true that FreeBSD crashed A LOT more in the past (from a decade worth of experience at least), but it does crash often enough when new features are introduced or reworked and that's true for minor and major updates.
Cheers,
Franco
Just did another successful update to 23.7.2 with zero issues. Good work.