Dear all,

While we are still looking closer at netmap/iflib performance on 12.1 we are rolling out a kernel with Intel em/igb updates that should avoid bad packet counts in the default installation. Syslog-ng received a workaround for the diagnosed startup issue and alias now supports MAC address content similar to how host content works.

Here are the full patch notes:

o system: set REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE in environments
o system: improve parsing for temperature sensors
o system: add "new-password" hint for Chrome on login form
o system: rename syslog services description and hide legacy mode when not enabled
o system: force syslog-ng restart after boot sequence
o system: properly read new style logging directories
o reporting: replace line endings when sending traceback to syslog in flowd_aggregate
o reporting: dd traffic graph filter for private IPv4 networks (contributed by kcaj-burr)
o firewall: add MAC address alias type
o firewall: be more verbose when fetching alias remote content
o firewall: prevent pfctl error messages from being suppressed
o firewall: exclude all reserved pf.conf keywords from alias name
o firewall: bogons not loaded on initial load
o firewall: reset damaged bogons files on startup
o interfaces: add listen-queue-sizes in socket diagnostics
o firmware: properly report an unsigned repository
o firmware: revoke 20.1 fingerprint
o intrusion detection: rule cache parse error on invalid metadata
o intrusion detection: allow search for status enabled/disabled
o web proxy: correct template replacement during build time
o web proxy: bugfix in JSON access log
o unbound: updated project block lists links (contributed by gap579137)
o backend: add regex_replace template support
o plugins: os-acme-client 1.36[1]
o plugins: os-dyndns 1.23 adds Gandi LiveDNS support (contributed by vizion8-dan)
o plugins: os-haproxy 2.24[2]
o plugins: os-stunnel 1.0.1 includes performance tweaks
o plugins: os-telegraf 1.8.2[3]
o plugins: os-tinc fixes cipher parsing on 20.7
o src: remove ACPI workaround for serial console on AMD EPYC
o src: Make pf.conf ':0' ignore link-local v6 addresses too
o src: default "show bad packets" tunable to off in e100 driver
o src: fix unsolicited promisc mode in e1000 driver
o src: add valectl to the system commands
o ports: ca_root_nss/nss 3.56[4]
o ports: curl 7.72.0[5]
o ports: libressl 3.1.4[6]
o ports: openldap 2.4.51[7]
o ports: php 7.3.21[8]
o ports: python 3.7.9[9]
o ports: sqlite 3.33.0[10]
o ports: squid 4.13[11]
o ports: syslog-ng dlsym() workaround
o ports: unbound 1.11.0[12]

Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

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[1] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/pull/1974
[2] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/net/haproxy/pkg-descr
[3] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/net-mgmt/telegraf/pkg-descr
[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.56_release_notes
[5] https://curl.haxx.se/changes.html#7_72_0
[6] https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-3.1.4-relnotes.txt
[7] https://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
[8] https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.3.21
[9] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-379/
[10] https://sqlite.org/changes.html
[11] http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/squid-4.13-RELEASENOTES.html
[12] https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/download/#unbound-1-11-0