Apparently it’s been out since June and I just never realized, but there’s a new pfsense out.

https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2.7.0-and-23.05

Not exactly timely, but I bet I’m not the only one who easily forgets about that particular thing. Most of my stuff is set to autoupdate so I tend to forget.

The upgrade downloaded a large number of packages, I think about 160, during which network connectivity continued to function. After downloading, my router PC reset, and that first boot after the upgrade took quite a few minutes. I ended up running the 90 second timer out after which it reset to 20 seconds a number of times. I was just about to start digging for an HDMI cable to see what when I heard the router beep and my internet came back. Perfect upgrade, didn’t need to fix anything afterwards.

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.netOP
    3·
    10 months ago

    I got it all configured before I figured out the benefits and haven’t bothered to migrate since both of them basically do the job for me.

      • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.netOP
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’ve used opnsense in other applications since where I’ve wanted a good firewall that runs on x86 hardware.

    • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.netOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      Really, the same reason I didn’t upgrade for 3 months, it’s a piece of invisible infrastructure unless something is wrong. I only noticed the upgrade because I was going in to add another static dhcp binding for a new server.