Hello,

This release adds GUI support for Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) and SYN cookies as per virtue of the FreeBSD 13 operating system. The work to modernise the interfaces subsystem and improve the new ddclient dynamic DNS plugin are also progressing.

Due to signs of decay in the build infrastructure, license nitpicking in FreeBSD ports and the upcoming OpenSSL 3 release (which will complicate things most likely) we have decided to discontinue LibreSSL at the end of this year meaning there will be no more LibreSSL flavour starting with version 23.1. Non-essential software will no longer be manually fixed and provided as binary packages if broken by upstream from this point on.

Since 2015 we have been working on functional LibreSSL support with steady means, but 7 years later and OpenSSL making an effort through numerous ways we are sad to give up this alternative since we do not see LibreSSL being used and properly integrated in software projects as often anymore. It has been a slow but steady decline for the past 2 years that also has to do with a LibreSSL release cycle tailored for OpenBSD in particular and OpenSSL library integration quality, which is almost impossible to improve upon in complex third-party software projects. We simply cannot afford the time for it any longer.

All users are able to update to the OpenSSL flavour without issues now or at any later given point.

Here are the full patch notes:

A hotfix release was issued as 22.1.2_1:

Images have been subsequently released as 22.1.2(_2):


Stay safe especially in darker times,
Your OPNsense team

SHA256 (OPNsense-22.1.2-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2) = d066d5620e28c22ff1d8de18532b61f8c7317b3258d5bdafb6a7a8dbb1eea002
SHA256 (OPNsense-22.1.2-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2) = dea720e15e67063d839bbf48017d32eb27071d58afee36bec40029319f5cc47e
SHA256 (OPNsense-22.1.2-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2) = 1b32287c13cc445a9a7a365b7879d00d3413ea53faf4cb23b3ef77b7916a1b7c
SHA256 (OPNsense-22.1.2-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2) = c6bbc0755d9458cc6484a98f074b62beaa30c5f02bd728ee1b0e896d2613b4b4