OPNsense Forum
Archive => 17.1 Legacy Series => Topic started by: janw.zc on January 24, 2018, 12:01:47 pm
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Hello there,
right now, we are running the rather old version
OPNsense 17.1-amd64
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p7
OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017
and would like to upgrade, are there any known problems to be expected and how do I upgrade? Simply through the GUI? Which version would you recommend? 17.7.12 ?
Best regards,
Jan
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Hi Jan,
The version you will be able to upgrade to is 17.7.12. It likely has less issues than 17.1.
However, going to 17.7 requires you to do a minor upgrade on 17.1 and then a major upgrade and then another minor update since 17.1 is roughly a year old and we do 2 major releases per year.
Cheers,
Franco
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Hey Franco,
thanks a lot for your reply, so I simply need to use the webinterface for upgrading and everything should work just like before?
Cheers,
Jan
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That's the plan, yes. Simply update from the GUI. :)
Make sure to study the compatibility notes for 17.7 as shown in the GUI before the major upgrade. It has notes for backwards-incompatible changes, but they were not plenty if I recall correctly.
Cheers,
Franco
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...if I skip some major updates I ALWAYS do a fresh install and import the config. Takes just some 20 minutes and if something goes wrong, simply put in the old SSD/HDD/CF-card and live goes on... :-)
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Hey you two,
thanks a lot for your reply, are there any documentations on updates in general?
When using the fresh-install approach, is there anything to take care of? Probably same interface-config?
Cheers,
Jan