pfSense pkg upgrade

Networking & Firewalls
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Lately there has been some conversations about update/upgrades within pfSense.

Today I discovered a good example. The pfSense GUI does not show any available updates under System > Package Manager.

However, when I connect to pfSense via SSH, and run ‘pkg upgrade’ I get this output…

All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (4 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (4 candidates): 100%
The following 4 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:

  • bind-tools: 9.16.11 → 9.16.12 [pfSense]*
  • unbound: 1.13.0_2 → 1.13.1 [pfSense]*

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:

  • pfSense-pkg-Avahi-2.1_1 [pfSense] (ABI changed: ‘freebsd:11:x86:64’ → ‘freebsd:12:x86:64’)*
  • pfSense-pkg-Service_Watchdog-1.8.7_1 [pfSense] (ABI changed: ‘freebsd:11:x86:64’ → ‘freebsd:12:x86:64’)*

Number of packages to be upgraded: 2
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 2

I guess it’s good to check the GUI and the CLI?
Sean

2

The pgk system only pulls from their repository and sometimes they have updates there to fix specific issues such as recent unbound problem. It was also used a few years back to fix an issue an issue in NGINX

3

Unfortunately through the pfSense forum on reddit, I don’t think the unbound errors are exactly fixed yet. Any idea how widespread the unbound issues are or their usage cases.

4

I’m seeing unbound crashes 3-4 times a day. I’ll look into reporting this to Netgate. They need to know about it.