Hi there,

For more than 6 and a half years, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing.

21.7, nicknamed "Noble Nightingale", is one of the largest iterations of code changes in our recent history. It will also be the last release on HardenedBSD 12.1. We are planning to start the work on FreeBSD 13 as soon as next week for the 22.1 series.

The installer was replaced to offer native ZFS installations and prevent glitches in virtual machines using UEFI. Firmware updates were partially redesigned and the UI layout consolidated between static and MVC pages. The live log now contains the actual rule ID to avoid mismatches after adjusting your ruleset and the firewall aliases now also support wildcard netmasks. For a complete list of changes see below.

Download links, an installation guide[1] and the checksums for the images can be found below as well.

Here are the full patch notes:

Known issues and limitations:

The public key for the 21.7 series is:

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b734CktIXm3HFvQ0qZ4DyIQDZS0J8zoVO2wHjlh9MsxCJdDvDXe6Dbj/Y93SBXVr
Az8T8YrEwjK0fPt8dB1p+Ue49eYXPs5lJPmB5iaiXlp1VTqUwH2Lm3BZG5bUKded
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CPvKwujGiI0N2BPJHP21g1ECAwEAAQ==
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----


Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

SHA256 (OPNsense-21.7-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2) = 34f9b5dee78cb4ded515393bd17c248d5a06b5cbc7c3cca9a58a919dc5e0fd65
SHA256 (OPNsense-21.7-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2) = e29ddb1749798d3f4403e44c9ee259a00826814a9cb71e0918fc3a6cb75df7db
SHA256 (OPNsense-21.7-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2) = b79e8f3b2dcdc1b13ff27d4aec435662a4f8b11201dff22c538cb2fd11c655f8
SHA256 (OPNsense-21.7-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2) = 03333348f3dbd42445986221cebaf753ebe5e4549d02dbb870f651b6399327d8