Firewalla Ubuntu 16.04 EOL

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Leonid Makarov

• January 29, 2021 04:23
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It's not listed anywhere clearly what version of Ubuntu which Firewalla box uses.

My Firewalla Blue currently runs Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS.

From docs and screenshots here and here, I'm guessing that:

• Red and Blue are on Ubuntu 16.04.x LTS
• Blue Plus and Gold are on Ubuntu 18.04.x LTS

Is that right? It would be nice to have this in the docs.

Next, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will be EOL in 3 months (April, 2021).

Will Red and Blue be updated to at least 18.04 LTS any time soon?

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  mobius strip

  • March 14, 2021 00:18
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  For the Firewalla Gold running current firmware/'Box Version' 1.971:

  • General distribution: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,  aka 'Bionic Beaver' (EOL is April 2023)
  • Specific Ubuntu release under FW 1.971: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

  Most recent Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release: 18.04.5 LTS

  • I give the Firewalla developers the benefit of the doubt, that security vulnerabilities that were patched in releases 18.04.4 LTS & 18.04.5 LTS are either not revelant to the Firewalla Gold, and the ones that could be relevant have been manually patched by some other means...e.g. updating openssl manually or something like that (they're maintaining and continuing to develop a firewall and router afteralll)

  • Differences in release versions:  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases 

  That being said, since Firewalla is intended to be educational as well as functional, can the Firewalla developers comment on this?

  For anyone interested in determining the Ubuntu release version running on their Firewalla (at least on the Gold), one way is to SSH into your Firewalla and run the command:

  lsb_release -a

  For example, here my terminal from when I ssh'd in to get the info to answer this question:

  pi@firewalla:~ (Firewalla) $ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 
  Release:    18.04
  Codename:   bionic

   

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  Sukumar Patel

  • March 14, 2021 04:16

  This and also the packages as well.

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