Reboot every time automated firmware update runs

[bebef]

Hi everyone,

I have a cron job that runs "Automatic firmware update" daily. I have noted recently that this seems to reboot the box every time. From what I can see in monitoring, this seems to have started Wednesday last week, so 2026-06-03.

Was something changed that would lead to this behavior? 26.1.8 was on 2026-05-12, so I don't see a temporal correlation.

Any hints would be highly appreciated.

Cheers

[bebef]

I just saw the release of 26.1.9 in https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=52042.0 on 2026-06-02, so maybe that's the correlation I was missing.
Maybe there is an issue installing this version. I'll try from the console and see what happens.

I wonder why it would only display now, I had checked for updates and it said there were no updates available.