pfSense firmware release v2.8.1

[#1]

For anyone running the pfSense router firmware, this evening, version 2.8.1, has been released.

Back in May 2025, the upgrade to v2.8.0 arrived, being long overdue and a huge update from v2.7.2,

but unfortunately had a few problems, which have now been ironed out in this latest v2.8.1 release.

I've upgraded my system using the dashboard updater, without needing to uninstall packages,

and can report that it seems to be running well.

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[#2]

For anyone running pfSense v2.8.1 firmware, I'm just posting to flag that today 13-Sep-2025,

there was an update to the "System_Patches" package, to v2.2.23

which applies interim urgent patches between pfSense minor release versions.

I've upgraded and applied all the new patches and everything remains stable.

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