20.7-BETA images with HBSD 12.1

[franco]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce that we hereby provide 20.7-BETA images with the following features and caveats:

* HardenedBSD 12.1
* Logging issues after major version change fixed
* Traffic shaper statistics API and GUI page
* Firewall API plugin
* Missing plugin GUI install/dismiss feature
* Suricata 5 and optimized ET Pro Telemetry rules plugin
* Images are amd64 only as we jump the major OS version and leave i386 behind
* Nano images probably have a defunct growfs feature, but already fixed on master

Please note these images are development snapshots which will be provided with further updates, but as of yet there is no production track of 20.7.

Last but not least, images can be found here:

https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/snapshots/

Please keep all general feedback in this thread or create 20.7 forum posts for specific issues / discussions.


Cheers,
Franco

[ruggerio]

Hi,

I do not get it installed, after dumping to usb or card, it just writes the boot to disk (25M) - the rest is empty.

[franco]

It really can't be this bad. Which image did you try?


Cheers,
Franco

[dinguz]

Just switching a 20.1.3 install from production to development doesn't work to do the full upgrade, right? You need to reinstall from an image?

[franco]

Image only. We're not ready for inline upgrades as they haven't been tested and are mostly irrelevant at this stage as we do not want people to upgrade their systems because we are not in RC mode yet.


Cheers,
Franco

[ruggerio]

Hi Franco,

This one here:

https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/snapshots/OPNsense-devel-20.7.b-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2

dd'ing onto a usb-stick and a sdcard, both with the same result.

[banym]

Well did you have decompressed it? It comes compressed as .bz2 ?

[ruggerio]

yes, yes, i bunzipped2 it 

otherwise, it wouldn't have installed the boot partition, i think.

[dinguz]

How is the beta image so much larger than the current production image? Does it have debugging enabled?

[ruggerio]

strange, i started by minicom instead putty and just rebooted on error - it worked.

[dinguz]

Yesterday evening I installed 20.7-beta from an image, and restored the configuration from 20.1. This basic install seemed to work fine. I then proceeded to install plugins (acme-client, cache, dyndns, ftp-proxy, smart, unbound-extras or whatsitsname, upnp). After this my router started bootlooping. I kind of suspect upnp as this was the last plugin I installed, but I'm not sure.

[mimugmail]

Anything weird in the console while booting?

[ruggerio]

mine is extrem slow after restoring from a backup - i reset to factory defaults, install the plugins first and will then restore the backup again. Will let you know.

Confirmed: this way, it works well.

[ruggerio]

Errors on boot after that:

(install apuled-plugin): /usr/local/etc/rc.syshook.d/early/30-apuled: cannot create /dev/led/led3: No such file or directory
...for all 3 led

Comment: does not work in Freebsd on APU according to the BIOS-Notes for the latest BIOS: https://pcengines.github.io/

Known issues:

    apuled driver doesn't work in FreeBSD. Check the GPIOs document for workaround.

[ruggerio]

Testing, all Logs for the firewall leave empty. According my backup, i am logging a lot, so there should be something.

But Live View as Original Protocols are empty

SSH'ing to console shows entries either.

Confirmed: Works again after several reboots...