This business release is based on the OPNsense 21.7.8 community version
with additional reliability improvements.

Here are the full patch notes:

o system: remove spurious XML validation that cannot cope with attributes from backup restore
o system: prevent syslog-ng from crashing after update due to "syslog-ng-ctl reload" use
o system: changing interface gateway was ignored during route reconfiguration
o system: cron command drop down size was extending below screen
o reporting: fix display of total in/out traffic values
o firewall: removed the $aliastable cache
o firewall: correctly handle IPv6 NAT in states view
o firewall: skip rule ID for NAT type log entries (contributed by kulikov-a)
o firewall: support "no scrub" option in normalisation rules
o firewall: exclude external alias for nesting
o network time: remove PID file use as it can be unreliable
o intrusion detection: update to ET-Open to version 6
o intrusion detection: prevent config migration from crashing
o lang: update translations for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Turkish
o captive portal: prevent session removal crashing when no IP address was registered
o mvc: add getInterfaceConfig endpoint to interface API (contributed by Paolo Asperti)
o mvc: fix logging of configd errors (contributed by kulikov-a)
o plugins: os-acme-client 3.8[1]
o plugins: os-frr 1.26[2]
o plugins: os-openconnect 1.4.2[3]
o plugins: os-postfix 1.21[4]
o plugins: os-telegraf 1.12.4[5]
o plugins: os-wireguard 1.10[6]
o src: axgbe: validate contents of gpio expander
o src: incorrect XSAVE state size[7]
o src: vPCI compatibility improvements with certain Hyper-V releases[8]
o src: vt console buffer overflow[9]
o ports: expat 2.4.2[10]
o ports: filterlog 0.6[11]
o ports: flock 2.37.2
o ports: hostapd 2.10[12]
o ports: lighttpd 1.4.63[13]
o ports: nss 3.74[14]
o ports: openssl 1.1.1m[15]
o ports: openvpn 2.5.5[16]
o ports: php 7.4.27[17]
o ports: sqlite 3.37.2[18]
o ports: strongswan 5.9.5[19]
o ports: syslog-ng 3.35.1[20]
o ports: unbound 1.14.0[21]
o ports: wpa_supplicant 2.10[22]

Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

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[1] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/stable/21.7/security/acme-client/pkg-descr
[2] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/stable/21.7/net/frr/pkg-descr
[3] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/stable/21.7/security/openconnect/pkg-descr
[4] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/stable/21.7/mail/postfix/pkg-descr
[5] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/stable/21.7/net-mgmt/telegraf/pkg-descr
[6] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/stable/21.7/net/wireguard/pkg-descr
[7] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-22:02.xsave.asc
[8] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-22:03.hyperv.asc
[9] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-22:01.vt.asc
[10] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_4_2/expat/Changes
[11] https://github.com/opnsense/ports/commit/2e27655d84
[12] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/hostapd/ChangeLog
[13] https://www.lighttpd.net/2021/12/4/1.4.63/
[14] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.74_release_notes
[15] https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-1.1.1-notes.html
[16] https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/ChangesInOpenvpn25#Changesin2.5.5
[17] https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.4.27
[18] https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_37_2.html
[19] https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/releases/tag/5.9.5
[20] https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.35.1
[21] https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/download/#unbound-1-14-0
[22] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/ChangeLog