[SOLVED] i386 upgrade proposed in gui

[toxic]

I recently installed the latest 20.1 from the nano image onto my old alix 2d3 board (to use as a simple captive portal for a family guest-house).

OPNsense 20.1-i386
FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p16-HBSD
OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019

This board is i386 so only 32bits (and 256MB RAM...), I fully knew that opnSense had (sadly) dropped support fro 32bit starting with 20.7

That is what made me a bit confused when my working i386 install showed me the upgrade popup in Firmware->Upgrade menu. I was there to install the dark theme, and I clicked "check update" out of habbit, it turns out it showed me the popup saying

Dear all,

20.7-RC1 is already available and the final release of 20.7 is scheduled for July 30. A hotfix release for 20.1.9 will enable the upgrade path...

And offers a nice "Update now" button on the top right...

For now I've refrained from clicking it... I think if it was just not possible for opnSense to open an online upgrade path only for x86_64, so 20.1 users of the i386 flavor have the message but should not do the upgrade ?

If someone can please tell me if that's indeed the case and if I should continue ignoring the message or if 20.7 is indeed still supporting users who upgrade, and just not providing pre-build i386 images anymore, but all packages are still working so online upgrade should be fine...

Thanks in advance for your kind help.

[franco]

Hmm, too many assumptions. The text is from release 20.1.9:

% git grep "20.7-RC1 is already"
doc/20.1/20.1.9:20.7-RC1 is already available and the final release of 20.7 is scheduled

And it continues as follows:

20.7-RC1 is already available and the final release of 20.7 is scheduled       
for July 30.  A hotfix release for 20.1.9 will enable the upgrade path         
some hours after the initial 20.7 announcement is out, but please note         
that updated 32-bit builds (also known as i386) will no longer be available     
from this day forward.

Of course you can update from 20.1 to 20.1.9. Of course you can click "Check for updates" in 20.1.9 but if you had you would have noticed that there are no further updates available.


Cheers,
Franco

[toxic]

Ok, sorry, I did not understand there was a 20.1.9 inbetween, and the page did not show the version I would be upgrading to or I missed it.

Just started the upgrade process, thanks for your help, will check again after the upgrade completes to see that no further update is proposed and then will set this thead as solved.

Thanks again @franco

[toxic]

Confirmed, no more update proposed.

I'm still quite in the dark as how to know the current version used, I only get 20.1 and I don't know how to check the last digit...
Tried opnsense-version in shell, uname-a, both give the same thing 20.1 without further details.

[franco]

The dashboard system information gives the most relevant software version indicators. 20.1.9 should have rebooted at least once.

I am pretty sure the title bar in the modal presenting the release notes has the version "20.1.9" written on it. If in doubt you can always go to the changelog tab of the firmware page to see which one is currently installed, which releases have been published since and open each one by one to read the notes.

You can also do a health check from the same firmware page to see if everything on the disk is in sync with the latest update files.


Cheers,
Franco