The OPNsense business edition successfully transitions to this 21.10 release with a new installer including ZFS support, improved central management and Intel network driver updates amongst others. Download link is as follows.  An installation guide[1] and the checksums for the images can be found below as well. https://downloads.opnsense.com/ This business release is based on the […]

Hi there, This release finally brings in Suricata version 6 as well as OpenVPN tls-crypt support, automatic user creation on LDAP-based logins and more. As a general note the Realtek vendor driver currently bundled with the base system will be moved to a plugin-based kernel module in version 22.1 and the original re(4) driver inside […]

Hi there, For more than 6 and a half years, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing. 21.7, nicknamed “Noble Nightingale”, is one of the largest iterations […]

Hi there, This is the end of life release for the 21.1 series with 21.7 being released tomorrow.  The upgrade path will be added later on said release day as soon as we have confirmed that everything is fine. See you on the other side. Here are the full patch notes: o system: prevent excessive […]

Hi there, The code moves to PHP 7.4 as previously announced.  Shipped alongside are a few updates and fixes that still make sense for the 21.1 series. We are happy to note our community contributions regarding the Norwegian translation and Fetchmail plugin. Later today, 21.7-RC1 is going to be released as well and you can […]

Hello, hello! Today we move to Phalcon version 4 along with new FreeBSD security advisories and fixes for firewall live log as well as new features such as shell timeout and TLS remote syslog. Here are the full patch notes: o system: add shell inactivity timeout feature for csh/tcsh o system: add Syslog-ng TLS transport […]

Hi there, With a bit of delay we bring to you the usual mix of security and reliablilty updates.  It is of note that the OpenVPN advisory tracked as CVE-2020-15078 does not affect the provided version 2.4.11, but the security audit will falsely flag it as vulnerable because the source of the audit is FreeBSD […]

Good day everyone, This is mainly a security and reliablility update.  There are several FreeBSD security advisories and updates for third party tools such as curl. The historic bsdinstaller has been replaced by a scriptable alternative based on the readily available bsdinstall bundled with the base system. And, yes, this brings ZFS installer support into […]

Hi there, The third party crypto libraries need patching so here we go!  The number of user contributions and interaction regarding stability fixes and improvements from the OPNsense side seems to be picking up as well and that is great to see. The development version includes an update of Suricata to version 6.0.2 in case […]

Hello, hello, Today we move ahead with the firmware UI and API rework as we are happy with the new user experience.  You will also notice the new plugin conflict dialog which will report that plugins have been installed previously but not registered in the configuration.  This can be easily amended by reseting the local […]