Has anyone had a problem-free upgrade from OPNsense 17.7.12 to 18.1?

[Ron Curry]

I want to add that for mission critical software such as this I normally wait for for a few revisions before upgrading but assumed this would be clean and simple because most of the changes appeared to be in functionality I don't use. . Judging from all th bugs it appears this may have been in error.

[dcol]

Two issues for me.

1- NAT didn't work at first, but a patch solved that one
2- Download speed has dropped 50% from previous version.
**** UPDATE ****
Speeds were affected because custom tweaks were removed by the upgrade. All OK now.

[phoenix]

I want to add that for mission critical software such as this I normally wait for for a few revisions before upgrading but assumed this would be clean and simple because most of the changes appeared to be in functionality I don't use. . Judging from all th bugs it appears this may have been in error.

I'm afraid that upgrading any software at any stage in it's lifecycle is always a case of caveat emptor and take all suitable precautions. :)

[elektroinside]

I want to add that for mission critical software such as this I normally wait for for a few revisions before upgrading but assumed this would be clean and simple because most of the changes appeared to be in functionality I don't use. . Judging from all th bugs it appears this may have been in error.

When you say mission-critical devices, you say the buzzword "enterprise class". This includes enterprise-class hardware, software, aaand (drums) support. Did you pay for some of these? Mind you, support cannot be excluded.

Furthermore, you either wait for a few revisions (you actually wait for others to hit the wall / or not) or you don't. There are no exceptions, there can be no exceptions if you think you deployed mission-critical appliances.

But if you paid for mission-critical appliances and support, you don't do the upgrades yourself. You will call and schedule a remote session with the support personnel. It's your choice whether to make it your business or not (to personally execute the upgrade), but usually, you don't make it your business, because if something brakes while the remote personnel works on your device, you're not entirely responsible. And there's the thing that you paid for this kind of support (because otherwise, your appliance is not mission-critical, only in your imagination), so why bother? Did you do this?

[franco]

Page name and screenshot please for easier tracking. I'm not aware of such fundamental changes in the GUI.


Cheers,
Franco

[cnaslund]

This one?

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[Thu Feb  1 14:58:38 EET 2018] _CURL='curl -L --silent --dump-header /var/etc/acme-client/home/http.header '
[Thu Feb  1 14:58:40 EET 2018] _ret='0'
[Thu Feb  1 14:58:40 EET 2018] code='400'
[Thu Feb  1 14:58:40 EET 2018] Update account error.
[Thu Feb  1 14:58:40 EET 2018] _on_issue_err
[Thu Feb  1 14:58:40 EET 2018] Please check log file for more details: /var/log/acme.sh.log


I had the code '400' as well as now the code '202'

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[Thu Feb 1 22:58:49 NZDT 2018] code='202'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:48 NZDT 2018] _ret='0'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:48 NZDT 2018] _CURL='curl -L --silent --dump-header /var/etc/acme-client/home/http.header '
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:48 NZDT 2018] url='https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/challenge/VPHhSBoLrKHx0v0OFCcDcZXtGPqHPByS19IzOusHVjo/97238858'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:48 NZDT 2018] POST
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:48 NZDT 2018] payload='{"resource": "challenge", "keyAuthorization": "GnEN-3x5LEaX0JY0MCI2f5CnqqAGZ7UNfCD9G-SQKvk.MWT6TBf_bqAL23Qyf5vMzH8pVfGeuSTTNpd8Lr6fIiI"}'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:48 NZDT 2018] url='https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/challenge/VPHhSBoLrKHx0v0OFCcDcZXtGPqHPByS19IzOusHVjo/97238858'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:48 NZDT 2018] code='400'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:47 NZDT 2018] _ret='0'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:47 NZDT 2018] _CURL='curl -L --silent --dump-header /var/etc/acme-client/home/http.header '
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:47 NZDT 2018] url='https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/challenge/feDqnEOavG71OFJysjupxhnl8xpBGdUP2PKeKdaotY0/97238857'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:47 NZDT 2018] POST
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:47 NZDT 2018] payload='{"resource": "challenge", "keyAuthorization": "RTqcwn1u5RX1za4U01_4CVIlI3HgHKuejSXW7sTiPgc.MWT6TBf_bqAL23Qyf5vMzH8pVfGeuSTTNpd8Lr6fIiI"}'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:47 NZDT 2018] url='https://acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/challenge/feDqnEOavG71OFJysjupxhnl8xpBGdUP2PKeKdaotY0/97238857'
[Thu Feb 1 22:58:46 NZDT 2018] Please check log file for more details: /var/log/acme.sh.log

[cnaslund]

Two issues for me.

1- NAT didn't work at first, but a patch solved that one
2- Download speed has dropped 50% from previous version.
**** UPDATE ****
Speeds were affected because custom tweaks were removed by the upgrade. All OK now.

Can you provide us with those custom tweaks that were removed?  It appears that several of us are experiencing performance issues since the upgrade and would like to know what tweaks improve throughput.

[dcol]

First off, I only saw a performance reduction when IDS/IPS was enabled.
My specific issues had to do with custom IPS rules and tunables that I had placed in the wrong place and were erased during the upgrade.
As far as the custom IPS rules, I use pass rules to reduce the IPS engine load,
Use the tunable guide in the IPS topics for some improved performance.

One more thing that I noticed is you have to apply the IPS rules again, even if you didn't change anything after the upgrade or anytime suricata updates because the generic suricata.yaml will be used until you hit apply in the rules tab. This will affect your interfaces and engine algorithms used with IPS. The settings migrate ok in OPNsense, just doesn't apply them to suricata.yaml until you hit apply.

[namezero111111]

We upgraded via cmdline successfully.
On the old Alix boards we had to disable tmp & /var ramdisk before and re-enable after because of memory issues. With that the upgrade went smooth (but slow :} )

[elektroinside]

I updated via the GUI, smooth and fast on my box :)

[michaelsage]

Hi,

I am a relative new comer to OPNSense, I have managed to upgrade 2 without issue, they are relatively simple firewalls though (NAT and VPN)

M

[comet]

Waited for 18.1.1 and upgraded directly to that and it appears to have worked fine, no issues at all have been observed so far.  Thanks to everyone who responded!

[smily03]

I just finished upgrading my install from 17.7.12 to 18.1.1 to 18.1.2_2 with no issues thus far.

Running custom hardware based on an industrial Atom D2550 board, 2GB memory, 4GB SLC SSD. OPNSense install with the Nano image. Upgrade itself took about 20 minutes.