Back from a busy work trip. Time to upgrade IPng's bastion servers to OpenBSD 7.7 - of course in one go and with zero drama.
I've been tracking OpenBSD since it merged KAME in 2.6 - that was 1999 or 2000, which makes this a 25 year winning streak.
@IPngNetworks Did you do an in-place upgrade for these, or a clean install with redeploy via Ansible? Last time I looked, they still seemed to recommend doing the clean install when upgrading? 🤔
@mejofi sysupgrade(8) for the last 5 or so releases, before that the manual/in-place upgrade (the third "least recommended option"). The only option I've never exercised is the 'Interactive' method with bsd.rd, because I did not always have serial access remotely [I do now, though].
I don't think you ever had to do a _clean install_, but rather boot on console from the bsd.rd kernel, and hit _upgrade_ there.
Context for others:
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade35.html (2004)
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade77.html (2025)
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