Upgrade success w/Zenarmor - keeping ISC, but not sure about Rules(New) ?!?

[rfox]

Just wanted to report another successful upgrade from GUI to 26.1_4 from 25.7.11_9 on a home lab Proxmox VM instance . . . I decided to keep ISC DHCP for now, but not sure about converting to new ruleset GUI (Tried in a test instance with simple install and all worked well)

My rules are not very complex, although I have multiple VLANs and setup Firehole many moons ago as floating rules - so worried about breakage.

Should I wait a bit or take the plunge with new rules ??  Fun thing, with snapshots and VM backups - can always revert ;-)

Great update!  Many Thanks . . . and congrats!

[franco]

Feel free to wait a bit. 26.1.1 brings a lot of immediate feedback improvement and a few fixes. It will get even better in later 26.1.x IMO.


Cheers,
Franco

[rfox]

Feel free to wait a bit. 26.1.1 brings a lot of immediate feedback improvement and a few fixes. It will get even better in later 26.1.x IMO.


Cheers,
Franco

Now I upgraded to 26.1.1 - looking fine . . . Before I migrate the rules, just one last question - Besides the presentation (GUI) changes on the new Rules interface - are there any other benefits (performance, logic, etc) to migrate from old rules ??

Thx and keep up the great work!

[franco]

Well, the MVC/API makes it modern and scriptable and all future work will only be done here as the old firewall rules move out of support at some point like all similar legacy components do.

I'd say today both are the same and usable. That may change as new features and UX improvements are added to the new GUI but not the old in 26.7, 27.1, etc.  That also includes new firewall and options as they become available in FreeBSD for example.  When FreeBSD 15.1 hits in 26.7 that means the feature parity is going to drift for good reasons.


Cheers,
Franco