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janw.zc

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Upgrade to up-to-date version
« on: January 24, 2018, 12:01:47 pm »
Hello there,

right now, we are running the rather old version

OPNsense 17.1-amd64
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p7
OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017

and would like to upgrade, are there any known problems to be expected and how do I upgrade? Simply through the GUI? Which version would you recommend? 17.7.12 ?

Best regards,

Jan
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Re: Upgrade to up-to-date version
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2018, 12:42:32 pm »
Hi Jan,

The version you will be able to upgrade to is 17.7.12. It likely has less issues than 17.1.

However, going to 17.7 requires you to do a minor upgrade on 17.1 and then a major upgrade and then another minor update since 17.1 is roughly a year old and we do 2 major releases per year.


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Franco
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2018, 12:54:15 pm »
Hey Franco,

thanks a lot for your reply, so I simply need to use the webinterface for upgrading and everything should work just like before?

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Jan
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2018, 01:13:58 pm »
That's the plan, yes. Simply update from the GUI. :)

Make sure to study the compatibility notes for 17.7 as shown in the GUI before the major upgrade. It has notes for backwards-incompatible changes, but they were not plenty if I recall correctly.


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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2018, 01:38:18 pm »
...if I skip some major updates I ALWAYS do a fresh install and import the config. Takes just some 20 minutes and if something goes wrong, simply put in the old SSD/HDD/CF-card and live goes on... :-)
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Re: Upgrade to up-to-date version
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2018, 02:49:36 pm »
Hey you two,

thanks a lot for your reply, are there any documentations on updates in general?
When using the fresh-install approach, is there anything to take care of? Probably same interface-config?

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Jan
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