Hello,

Please enjoy this release with improved CARP utility and a number of smaller fixes and updates for the operating system and third party tools. You can now also toggle logging directly from the rule overview to make debugging easier.

Here is the full list of changes:

o system: try all backups for automatic revert when config.xml is damaged
o system: do a system reset if all config.xml files are damaged
o system: only show tunables reboot hint when applying tunables (contributed by Northguy)
o system: use FQDN in system log remote messages
o system: add defunct gateways to GUI in disabled state
o interfaces: only allow VLAN parents that will work as VLAN parents
o interfaces: optionally promote/demote CARP on service status
o interfaces: CARP status page report with demotion level to avoid ambiguity
o firewall: revert problematic 19.7.2 change "unhide automatic interface-based output rules"
o firewall: restore automatic outbound NAT pre-19.7 behaviour which excludes gateways not configured and not dynamic
o firewall: add logging toggle to rules overview (contributed by johnaheadley)
o firewall: DHCPv6 relay would generate rules even if not enabled
o firmware: only do single-repository fingerprint verify defaulting to our OPNsense repository
o firmware: fix base and kernel package listing
o intrusion detection: show change message after toggle or save
o intrusion detection: rule download fix
o monit: add parent devices to interface list (contributed by Frank Brendel)
o monit: fix standard configuration migration (contributed by Frank Brendel)
o reporting: skip illegal NetFlow records in flow parser
o opendns: migrate update hook from DynDNS plugin to core to make it fully automatic
o backend: fix exception message string handling in Python 3
o backend: add help to pluginctl utility
o backend: configctl event handler support
o mvc: log API key when authentication failed
o ui:  more consistent HTML (contributed by gisforgirard)
o ui: sidebar bug fix (contributed by Team Rebellion)
o ui: fix initFormAdvancedUI() on initial load
o plugins: os-acme-client 1.25[1]
o plugins: os-bind 1.7[2]
o plugins: os-dyndns 1.17 removes OpenDNS and fixes DyNS
o plugins: os-haproxy 2.18[3]
o plugins: os-maltrail 1.1[4]
o plugins: os-nginx log rotation fix (contributed by Fabian Franz)
o plugins: os-postfix 1.10[5]
o plugins: os-smart 2.1 fixes widget status and adds NVMe disk support (contributed by nhirokinet and ATL)
o plugins: os-theme-cicada 1.19 (contributed by Team Rebellion)
o plugins: os-theme-tukan 1.19 (contributed by Team Rebellion)
o plugins: os-wireguard 1.1[6]
o src: fix incorrect exception handling in libunwind[7]
o src: fix multiple vulnerabilities in bzip2[8]
o src: fix ICMPv6 / MLDv2 out-of-bounds memory access[9]
o src: fix insufficient message length validation in bsnmp library[10]
o src: fix insufficient validation of guest-supplied data (e1000 device)[11]
o src: fix IPv6 remote denial of service[12]
o src: fix kernel memory disclosure from /dev/midistat[13]
o src: fix reference count overflow in mqueuefs[14]
o ports: hostapd 2.9[15]
o ports: nghttp2 1.39.2[16]
o ports: openldap 2.4.48[17]
o ports: perl 5.30.0[18]
o ports: php 7.2.21[19]
o ports: py-openssl 19.0.0[20]
o ports: syslog-ng 3.22.1[21]
o ports: wpa_supplicant 2.9[22]

Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

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[1] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/pull/1452
[2] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/dns/bind/pkg-descr
[3] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/pull/1453
[4] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/security/maltrail/pkg-descr
[5] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/mail/postfix/pkg-descr
[6] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/net/wireguard/pkg-descr
[7] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-19:15.libunwind.asc
[8] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:18.bzip2.asc
[9] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:19.mldv2.asc
[10] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:20.bsnmp.asc
[11] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:21.bhyve.asc
[12] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:22.mbuf.asc
[13] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:23.midi.asc
[14] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:24.mqueuefs.asc
[15] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/hostapd/ChangeLog
[16] https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.39.2
[17] https://www.openldap.org/software/release/announce.html
[18] https://metacpan.org/pod/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.30.0/pod/perldelta.pod
[19] https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.2.21
[20] https://www.pyopenssl.org/en/stable/changelog.html
[21] https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.22.1
[22] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/ChangeLog