Don't touch a running system 🤔 and congrats!

[rfox]

Happy belated New Year - and Happy Friday on top!  Firstly, congrats on 26.1 !  Looking good . . .

Question about upgrading from OPNsense 25.7.11_9-amd64 - I have a virtual instance running under Proxmox - quite smoothly I might add for some time.  Took me a while to configure multiple VLANs, Zenarmor, Unbound, Netbird and ISC DHCP that everything works, but once all set up - has been very stable (even after multiple upgrades over the last 16 months)

I'm a bit nervous about the ISC DHCP changeover to DNSMasq - not just because of many static leases (saw Network Guy article which I've tested on a test instance - worked well)

My question is, for a relatively small HomeLab environment - Should I just upgrade to 26.1 and keep ISC DHCP as a plugin??  Any downsides to keeping ISC moving forward?

If I do choose to change to DNSMasq, should I do it BEFORE or AFTER the 26.1 upgrade ?!?

The old saying of "Don't touch a running system" always comes to mind in this scenario :-)

Thanks in advance and once again, Congrats on the new release!

[franco]

With Zenarmor in your list I would recommend waiting for 26.1.1 next week just to be sure. You can keep ISC-DHCP for the foreseeable future. I'm certainly guilty of it too.  ;)

If you want to migrate to Dnsmasq you can do it in 26.1.x or 26.7.x. ISC-DHCP won't be gone in 2027 if things continue as normal but it's likely going to drop to community plugin status by then.


Cheers,
Franco

[rfox]

With Zenarmor in your list I would recommend waiting for 26.1.1 next week just to be sure. You can keep ISC-DHCP for the foreseeable future. I'm certainly guilty of it too.  ;)

If you want to migrate to Dnsmasq you can do it in 26.1.x or 26.7.x. ISC-DHCP won't be gone in 2027 if things continue as normal but it's likely going to drop to community plugin status by then.


Cheers,
Franco

Thanks Franco for the prompt response!  Filed under "good to know" ;-)  Have a great weekend in advance!

[franco]

thanks, likewise :)

[Greg_E]

When ZenArmor is installed, best to wait until they release a version compatible.

Also make sure you back up your config file and make a snapshot of the VM (or physical).

I might do this on my lab so I can fight through the DHCP changes before Business gets this in a few months and I upgrade production.