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Become an OPNsense® Developer
“For your own purpose, and even better, join us in creating the best Hardened FreeBSD-based open-source firewall available!”
The development workflow and build process have been redesigned to make it easier and more straightforward for developers to build OPNsense.
OPNsense® Developer Invitation
Access the source code and build it yourself! The OPNsense project was started because the team believes that source code and build tools should be freely available and easy to use.
For more information on using the tools and contributing, visit the OPNsense® GitHub page.
Contributing
Contributing to the ongoing development of OPNsense® can be done by:
- Testing a development version and
- Report issues and/or
- Help fixing issues as well as by
- Contributing new functionality
- Share your code with the project by manner of a pull request.
Development manual
The OPNsense® project invites developers to start developing with OPNsense: “For your own purpose or even better to join us in creating the best open source firewall available!” The development workflow & build process have been redesigned to make it more straightforward and easy for developers to build OPNsense.
Being able to get the sources and build it yourself is one of the key factors of open source software. One reason that for starting the OPNsense® project is that the team believes sources and build tools should be freely available and as easy to use as possible.
Bug reporting
Bugs and issues are tracked using GitHub’s issue tracking system see:
https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues
Roadmap
The roadmap aims to provide an insight of the direction the project is moving forward. By no means this is meant to be a detailed list.