Hey guys,
Did anyone upgrade pfSense to 2.8.1?
Any special steps or concerns to take into account?
Thanks all
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Take a look at the blog and follow their instructions on upgrades.
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I did and all went well.
The purpose of my post was to know if somebody had any extraordinary problems that weren’t caught before…
Thanks
I upgraded from 2.7.2 to 2.8.1 for 1 week now, and so far so good I didn’t notice any issue till now. on last June I upgraded to 2.8.0 and I got issue with internet kept dropping all the time and i had to reboot pfsense, so I decided to downgrade to 2.7.2 but with 2.8.1 it looks ok now problem noticed till now.
I updated it and haven’t had any problems so far, just one day after I left. In the meantime, I installed a new pfSense with the latest version, which also had no problems.
The only problem I had was with an older pfSense that was on 2.7.0, which I had to run from the Command Prompt to update:
certctl rehash && pkg-static update -f && pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade
If it still won’t let you update, run the command below:
pkg-static clean -ay; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade
However, if it is an older version than 2.7, I recommend that you back up the XML and reinstall the system and restore the backup, it is safer and easier than a double system upgrade.
I updated a few days ago without any special preparation and all seems to be fine afterward.
I have not updated yet as I am traveling. But one thing I have always done is reboot your system before updating. Particularly if it has been up for some time. This is based on an issue I had several years ago when the update failed. I opened an issue with Netgate, and they got me going in no time. The engineer told me that it is best to reboot prior to updates.
Only issues I saw going from 2.7x to 2.8x was with 2100 series routers with an overload backlog of so many auto-configuration backup files (I think) that the upgrades were hanging and then ultimately failing. And, if you went in to look at the list in the GUI in an attempt to clean them up, the whole UI would hang trying to load the list. This was due to a bug that wasn’t clearing them out, regardless of settings. I had to reboot back into the previous version, go into the command line and run a command to delete all the backup files and then the upgrades went through fine. Unfortunately, I didn’t document this, and I can’t find the forum article I eventually found on this or I’d link it here. Was this response a total waste of time? Probably, but you asked if anyone had any trouble, so there you go.
I just upgraded to 2.8.1 last week. Nothing too crazy, but I always recommend backing up your config first. Also, make sure your packages are up-to-date before the upgrade. It went smoothly for me, but it never hurts to have a snapshot in case something weird happens.