OPNsense 23.1 released, FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform

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OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. OPNsense includes most of the features available in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. It brings the rich feature set of commercial offerings with the benefits of open and verifiable sources.

OPNsense started as a fork of pfSense® and m0n0wall in 2014, with its first official release in January 2015. The project has evolved very quickly while still retaining  familiar aspects of both m0n0wall and pfSense. A strong focus on security and code quality drives the development of the project.

OPNsense offers weekly security updates with small increments to react on new emerging threats within in a fashionable time.  A fixed release cycle of 2 major releases each year offers businesses the opportunity to plan upgrades ahead. For each major release a roadmap is put in place to guide development and set out clear goals.

Feature

  • Dashboard
    OPNsense offers a dashboard feature to quickly check the status of your OPNsense Firewall.Shown is the latest version with drag and drop multi collumn support.
  • Modern User Interface
  • Stateful Firewall
  • Aliases & GeoLite Country Database
  • Traffic Shaper
  • Two-factor authentication
    Supported 2FA services include:

    • OPNsense Graphical User Interface
    • Captive Portal
    • Virtual Private Networking – OpenVPN & IPsec
    • Caching Proxy
    • OPNsense Captive Portal
  • Captive Portal
  • Virtual Private Network – IPsec & OpenVPN GUI
  • High Availability / Hardware Failover (CARP)
  • Caching Proxy
  • Intrusion Detection & Prevention
  • Integrated support for ET Open rules.
  • Integrated SSL Blacklist (SSLBL)
  • Intergrated Feodo Tracker
  • SSL Finger Printing
  • Backup & Restore
  • Reporting & Monitoring
  • Firmware & Plugins
  • Free Up-to-Date Online Manual

OPNsense

Changelog OPNsense 23.1

23.1, nicknamed “Quintessential Quail”, features Unbound DNS statistics with a blocklist rewrite in Python, improved WAN SLAAC operability, firewall alias BGP ASN type support, PHP 8.1, assorted FreeBSD networking updates, MVC/API pages for packet capture/virtual IPs/IPsec connection management, IPsec configuration file migration to swanctl.conf, new sslh plugin, ddclient custom backend support (including Azure), WireGuard kernel module plugin variant as the new default plus much more.

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