Upgrade to up-to-date version

[janw.zc]

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

[franco]

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.


Cheers,
Franco

[janw.zc]

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?

Cheers,

Jan

[franco]

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.


Cheers,
Franco

[chemlud]

...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... :-)

[janw.zc]

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?

Cheers,

Jan