UniFi Controller update to 6.1.71.0 breaks MAP Page

Networking & Firewalls
#1

I saw a notification about new UniFi Controller firmware, 6.1.71.0, so I upgraded to it yesterday. First, the new design of the initial dashboard page is a disaster, since it puts a huge static ad at the top of the page and I couldn’t find any way to dismiss it. Falling back to the older UI design was an easy fix for that, though. The one issue I haven’t found a fix for yet is the Map page, which is now blank for me. I have three HDNano APs on my LAN and had found the Map page to be a convenient way to get a quick overview of which clients were connected to which AP, etc.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?

#2

Me and Reily from HostiFi have both decided to skip that update because it is very buggy their next release looks to address many of the issues.

https://twitter.com/rchase/status/1381994966021443587

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#3

Thanks for the update, Tom. From now on I’m going to do more due diligence before upgrading, which is always a good idea for any upgrade on any system. You’d think after 30+ years of working on routers and switches I’d know to do that by now… ; )

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#4

UniFi controller 6.1.71 is an excellent example of why I run the controller in a VM. “Upgrading” to that version seriously broke things; reverting to the previous VMware snapshot was all that was needed to recover.

And no, it wasn’t worth trying to troubleshoot.

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#5

VMs for the win! Love me some XCP-ng.

#6

I just updated to 6.2.71 from 6.0.45, and I haven’t encountered any issues thus far.

My new “SOP” for updating UniFi controller releases is

  1. Take a VM snapshot.
  2. Download a “settings only” backup of the current controller configuration.
  3. Download (wget) the new version.
  4. sudo dpkg -P unifi
  5. sudo dpkg -i unifi_sysvinit_all.deb
  6. Log in to the “fresh” installation of the new version, load the saved configuration file, and test.