Seeing that there are so many problems with this version

[wuwzy]

I sincerely suggest that the official should do enough testing before considering whether to release it as a production version.
Switching to Ver 13 brings with it the sheer number of issues it's daunting. Let me keep the good OPNsense 21.7.8-amd64 until 22.7 comes along.
But I also see good news, the official hardware 850 is finally in stock.

[franco]

> Switching to Ver 13 brings with it the sheer number of issues it's daunting.

If you are referring to FreeBSD 13 you may be in the wrong forum.

And as always, specifics would be.. err... required for progress.


Cheers,
Franco

[zerwes]

Seeing that there are so many problems with this version

Can you please be more specific on many?

...  the official should do enough testing

what about donating some testing ... ?
I must be honest, I do not use the release candidates too (this would be the point where testing should be done on different hardware, scenarios, ...)
I am even such a coward and use opnsense-business, so I let others test live for me! (not really the main point, the main argument was to support opnsense development! But I do not test on the middle front aka. community version due to this)
But this shows IMHO the main problem ... we all want a good and stable system, new cool features etc ...
But on the other hand of this expectations there is little willingness to help.
Just to state it clear: I address this to me and myself too ...
I extend the usage of opnsense for our foundation and (as I find the time) I will try to have some automated testing of some features from RC to the community edition and the business one.
But maybe many of us have some spare hardware and time to do some testing.
Testing is the most expensive task (in many terms) in the software development area. So everybody can help ...

[aimdev]

I sincerely suggest that the official should do enough testing before considering whether to release it as a production version.
Switching to Ver 13 brings with it the sheer number of issues it's daunting. Let me keep the good OPNsense 21.7.8-amd64 until 22.7 comes along.
But I also see good news, the official hardware 850 is finally in stock.

A system like opnsense is extremely complicated, and is subject to issues within the underlying operating system, of which opnsense have no control.

My installation to the latest version has been quite good, the only issue is suricata dropping the wan, but yet again, suricata is not under the control of the opnsense team.

My upgrade down time was less than one hour.

Like any free (or did you pay ?) software is always tested by the user (actually even purchased software is by definition always beta, as there will always be issues)

Opnsense is designed to protect your network, which is under attact from many sources.

Please advise if you can find a better option, perhaps a Faraday cage with no external connections?