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BryanC1968, you are the best!!!!!! i almost formatted the firewall for the upgrade :)

Your Welcome.  Glad I could help someone else...  I did quite a bit of googling to find a fix for the problem.  I found some old forum posts either on this forum or on reddit from someone else having this same issue with one of the previous version upgrades.  And they found out that the cpu-microcode plugin was what was causing the issue, so I gave it a try and it worked...

OK... So I tried enabling the "os-cpu-microcode-intel" plugin again after upgrading to 26.7 and it caused the system to hang on boot again in the same spot "masks"...  So I would suggest that if you have this plugin installed that you remove it before attempting the upgrade and don't re-install it afterward...

OK... So I tried enabling the "os-cpu-microcode-intel" plugin again after upgrading to 26.7 and it caused the system to hang on boot again in the same spot "masks"...  So I would suggest that if you have this plugin installed that you remove it before attempting the upgrade and don't re-install it afterward...

Should I try re-installing the "os-cpu-microcode-intel" plugin now that the system has been upgraded or hold off to see if there may be an update to the plugin later on..?

I finally got the 26.7 upgrade to install.  I had to remove the "os-cpu-microcode-intel" plugin and reboot.  Then I tried the upgrade again and it worked...

I finally got the 26.7 upgrade to install.  I had to remove the "os-cpu-microcode-intel" plugin and reboot.  Then I tried the upgrade again and it worked...  I left the "Primary Console" setting I changed previously set to EFI so I am not sure if that even had anything to do with it or not.  I may try changing it back to VGA and see what happens...  But for now it seems like the "os-cpu-microcode-intel" plugin is what was causing the problem...

I am having the same issue...  System hangs on boot at "masks"

That did not work...  It still hangs at masks...

Any other suggestions..?

System > Settings > Administration > Console

So...  My current settings are:
     Use the virtual terminal driver (vt) is Checked
     Primary Console is set to:   VGA Console
     Secondary Console is set to:   None

So change Primary Console to:  EFI Console, and then reboot and try do the upgrade again..?

Well ... integrated graphics matches. Try the console settings as suggested by @meyergru.

Primary console: EFI
Secondary console: none

How do I go about doing that..?

I updated my original post to include my system specs:

Dell Optiplex 7050 with Intel i5-6500, Integrated Intel HD Graphics 530, 16GB Memory, UEFI Boot

I have made several attempts to install the Opnsense upgrade to 26.7, but every time it gets stuck or hangs on reboot at "masks    0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0xff000000"  I have to power off the system and reboot to the previous snapshot I made before attempting the upgrade to get things working again...  Can anyone offer some advice or help that may resolve this issue..?

System Info:  Dell Optiplex 7050 with Intel i5-6500, Integrated Intel HD Graphics 530, 16GB Memory, UEFI Boot