Hi there,

For more than four 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.

The 19.1 release, nicknamed “Inspiring Iguana”, consists of a total of 620 individual changes since 18.7 came out 6 months ago, spread out over12 intermediate releases including the recent release candidates.  That is the average of 2 stable releases per month, security updates and important bug fixes included!  If we had to pick a few highlights it would be: The firewall alias API is finally in place.  The migration to HardenedBSD 11.2 has been completed.  2FA now works with a remote LDAP / local TOTP
combination.  And the OpenVPN client export was rewritten for full API support as well.

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

o Europe: https://opnsense.c0urier.net/releases/19.1/
o US East Coast: http://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/opnsense/releases/19.1/
o US West Coast: https://mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net/opnsense/releases/19.1/
o South America: http://mirror.upb.edu.co/opnsense/releases/19.1/
o South-East Asia: https://ftp.yzu.edu.tw/opnsense/releases/19.1/
o Full mirror list: https://opnsense.org/download/

These are the most prominent changes since version 18.7:

o fully functional firewall alias API
o PIE firewall shaper support
o firewall NAT rule logging support
o 2FA via LDAP-TOTP combination
o WPAD / PAC and parent proxy support in the web proxy
o P12 certificate export with custom passwords
o Dpinger is now the default gateway monitor
o ET Pro Telemetry edition plugin[2]
o extended IPv6 DUID support
o Dnsmasq DNSSEC support
o OpenVPN client export API
o Realtek NIC driver version 1.95
o HardenedBSD 11.2, LibreSSL 2.7
o Unbound 1.8, Suricata 4.1
o Phalcon 3.4, Perl 5.28
o firmware health check extended to cover all OS files, HTTPS mirror default
o updates are browser cache-safe regarding CSS and JavaScript assets
o collapsible side bar menu in the default theme
o language updates for Chinese, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian
o new plugins for API backup export, Bind, Hardware widget, Nginx, Ntopng, VnStat, Dnscrypt-proxy

Here are the full changes against version 19.1-RC2:

o ipsec: add firewall interface as soon as phase 1 is enabled
o ipsec: phase 1 selection GUI JavaScript compatibility fix
o monit: widget improvements and bug fix (contributed by Frank Brendel)
o ui: fix regression in single host or network subnet select in static pages
o plugins: os-frr 1.7 updates OSPF outbound rules (contributed by Fabian Franz)
o plugins: os-telegraf 1.7.4 fixes packet filter input
o plugins: os-theme-rebellion 1.8.2 adds image colour invert
o plugins: os-vnstat 1.1[3]
o plugins: os-zabbix-agent now uses Zabbix version 4.0
o src: revert mmc_calculate_clock() as HS200/HS400 support breaks legacy support
o src: update sqlite3-3.20.0 to sqlite3-3.26.0[4]
o src: import tzdata 2018h, 2018i[5]
o src: avoid unsynchronized updates to kn_status[6]
o ports: ca_root_nss 3.42
o ports: dhcp6c 20190128 prevent rawops double-free (contributed by Team Rebellion)
o ports: sudo patch to fix listpw=never[7]

Migration notes and minor incompatibilities to look out for:

o Gateway health graphs may need a manual reset due to the Apinger to Dpinger migration.  Apinger is no longer available.
o Intrusion detection GeoIP rules are automatically deactivated and need to be manually migrated to firewall alias GeoIP.
o Quagga plugin has been superseded by FRR plugin.  A binary quagga package has been conserved for the time being.
o Please read the FRR documentation with regard to the required system tunables[8].
o Bhyve UEFI boot may fail as a guest.  The problem is being investigated.
o SNMP plugin has been superseded by Net-SNMP plugin.

The public key for the 19.1 series is:

—–BEGIN PUBLIC KEY—–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—–END PUBLIC KEY—–

Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

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[1] https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/install.html
[2] https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/etpro_telemetry.html
[3] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/net/vnstat/pkg-descr
[4] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-19:03.sqlite.asc
[5] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-19:04.tzdata.asc
[6] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-19:05.kqueue.asc
[7] https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=869
[8] https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/dynamic_routing.html

SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2) = a9e02954da1ddd1f0b7673394bbf81cfa74a1d5378600a87d3a9e6a26d3104d
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2) = 2c4b0056ca26053c8d5e4efe196e512af618bad4fa136ba0e2528083a6263528
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2) = c71274cea2b910cd4b3454b4ad29f7f70503fcb52ffa5b7f65ea96a27ac9e10d
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2) = 37164481a413716d8786676d30bb709f8b967e53a47a36d10118214304d14bb9

SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-dvd-i386.iso.bz2) = 17d0aadf671bc2d99b57f0371e4fadfca0e2e9c8d27d6545674a610fc1f59c7a
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-nano-i386.img.bz2) = 0c4e7616c93f14f5988df84b9b620543cb23a89c1f91505527b6c999d2dc7889
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-serial-i386.img.bz2) = 93306e5349c7448ad3fdc03d9349ebf98e4d7c677201dcbec111f917c72dca24
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img.bz2) = 03d21319a784f93a7940d35168a35d15005e6f4579ac5b1c7a6ff606beb062a6