As I went to update pfSense after seeing that v2.7.2 was "quite important", I was initially stumped when none of my pfSense installations showed anything more than v2.7.0 as being the latest.
Manual update attempt in debug mode revealed :
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SSL certificate problem: self-signed certificate in certificate chain
which is apparently a known issue that happens now and then.
The solution, from the netgate site (somewhat buried, see the end of this section:https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/upgrades.html#debug-pkg-metadata-update Opens a new window ) is to simply run the following from a root shell or the web gui via Diagnostics > Command Prompt.
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certctl rehash
This allows temporary use of the self-signed certs and the latest version should now be offered on the upgrade page.
Thought I'd make a short post in...