Hello, hello!
For more than two and a half years now, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, HardenedBSD security, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing.
We are writing to you today to announce the first release candidate for version 17.7, which, over the course of the last 5 months, includes highlights such as SafeStack application hardening, the Realtek re(4) driver for network stability, a Quagga plugin with broad routing protocol support and the Unbound resolver as the new default. Additionally, translations for Czech, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and German have been completed during this iteration.
Focus in OPNsense has shifted to improving and streamlining its various systems and providing continuous updates, which amounts to over 300 individual changes made since 17.1 so far. The plugin infrastructure is growing as well thanks to our awesome contributors Frank Wall, Frank Brendel, Fabian Franz and Michael Muenz. And we, last but not least, have been working more closely than ever with HardenedBSD by unifying our ports infrastructure. Although this is only the beginning, let us not skip ahead.
Download links, an installation guide[1] and the checksums for the images can be found below.
Here is the full (and surprisingly sparse) list of changes against version 17.1.9:
The list of currently known issues with 17.7-RC1:
As always with our pre-releases, only OpenSSL is provided at this point, but can be switched for LibreSSL as soon as the release is available. This release candidate does update directly into the 17.7 stable track and subsequent release candidates. Please let us know about your experience!
Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team
SHA256 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2) = 7455ff527a5e7ed1eac6db650fd4ddbd0a3257d2a270489fd85e273c83786d95 SHA256 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2) = 8c7e23f3dadc22bd03e174cc768c171207d4a0d95f32273d7a4baaf2fa678b57 SHA256 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2) = 597ca2fd3dfc7031785a35f5b23092633dee5ee1e385870ec977f364204035ed SHA256 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2) = ebaa162d7184286e8b1a03976e0c6bb7220dff7e2fda9d709a2e32334bdf7100 SHA256 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-dvd-i386.iso.bz2) = 79affa59a6b7319278964890779e97ce6c89f3441bccaf783610b29c708198d8 SHA256 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-nano-i386.img.bz2) = 36476da5610a90ac5e110d0a87a26356477b5ce1e17e551c06be09d3c23e35ae SHA256 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-serial-i386.img.bz2) = 514d2fef9efd081d2294cb961478ea85b7527e7f71091f91beed329c7ba36b5c SHA256 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img.bz2) = 6dc5bc2264767722c722b3d5f7b116e943e41374612256b94c32c4f6bbd05a5d
MD5 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2) = f5ec6d052c59ac785b7c631e8f24cb4a MD5 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2) = 986754b73391f8a6e063842bbdd0ce4b MD5 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2) = 8fa9c85c2bff1339f131d572c667b84d MD5 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2) = 2427efe4140f634086cbaa71da7aec03 MD5 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-dvd-i386.iso.bz2) = 23f1f152a40d352809796046053972c9 MD5 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-nano-i386.img.bz2) = 02f1cdb6a64f598b809045c262e21b58 MD5 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-serial-i386.img.bz2) = 4c330c7dc7d8728bc061e4ba2399490c MD5 (OPNsense-17.7.r1-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img.bz2) = 0e5aa3f9117371e6c2acf93b29b25c79