Upgrade from 25.7.10 all the way to 26.1.5 = GREAT SUCCESS !!!

[nero355]

Thought it would be fun to mention something positive once in a while instead of all those issues everyone is having because of various reasons ;)

I was running 25.7.10 for a while now and did not upgrade because of :
- Host Discovery issues.
Now that these are more or less settled when it comes to high CPU and a lot of writes to the database after upgrade it seemed OK to ignore it.
Also the first thing I disabled after the first upgrade to 25.7.11_9 was finished.
- Reports about high CPU LOAD because of PHP totally tripping and spawning a lot of processes in one of the 26.1.x releases I believe.
This did not happen after the first 26.1.2 upgrade as far I could see.
- Python version issues somewhere in the 26.1.2 - 26.1.5 range.
I have really become a hater of this programming language the last couple of years because of weird issues seen in multiple projects like Kodi/DSMR/Mopidy and recently also in OPNsense mainly because the ZenArmor users were having weird issues.
Luckily nothing weird happened and I hope it stays that way! :)

And then there is the whole thing about ISC becoming a plug-in and causing some weird issues for some, but I had already solved that in advance by migrating to KEA while running 25.7.10 to avoid any kind of issues in the future :)

For now I am not migrating any Firewall Rules or migrating from Outbound NAT to Source NAT as long as it's not mandatory/one of them becomes Legacy/EOL so those things will stay they way they are for now.

I am also planning to upgrade to 26.1.6 as soon as it's released because of https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=51440.0 even tho I have no Port Forwards currently.



/That's all folks! ^_^