Hi there,

For four 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.

19.7, nicknamed “Jazzy Jaguar”, embodies an iteration of what should be
considered enjoyable user experience for firewalls in general: improved
statistics and visibility of rules, reliable and consistent live logging
and alias utility improvements.  Apart from the usual upgrades of third
party software to up-to-date releases, OPNsense now also offers built-in
remote system logging through Syslog-ng, route-based IPsec, updated
translations with Spanish as a brand new and already fully translated
language and newer Netmap code with VirtIO, VLAN child and vmxnet support.

Last but not least we would like to thank m.a.x. it for their sponsorship
of the default gateway priority switching feature and their continued work
of writing and maintaining plenty of community plugins.  This time around,
Maltrail, Netdata and WireGuard VPN have been freshly added to the mix.

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/19.7/
o US East Coast: http://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/opnsense/releases/19.7/
o US West Coast: https://mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net/opnsense/releases/19.7/
o South America: http://mirror.upb.edu.co/opnsense/releases/19.7/
o South-East Asia: https://ftp.yzu.edu.tw/opnsense/releases/19.7/
o Full mirror list: https://opnsense.org/download/

These are the most prominent changes since version 19.1:

o List automatic firewall rules
o Statistics for all firewall rules
o Alias JSON import / export
o Optional statistics for aliases
o Firewall rule locator for live log and automatic rules
o Rewritten gateway handling and switching
o Remote logging via Syslog-ng
o LDAP group sync support
o Support certificate signing requests
o Route-based IPsec support (VTI)
o XMLRPC sync support for alias, VHID, widgets
o Unbound host overrides alias support
o Web proxy and IPsec authentication using PAM
o Parent web proxy support
o Web proxy login privilege via group
o Improved reliability and utility of opnsense-patch
o Dpinger and DHCP servers ported to plugin framework
o Language updates for Chinese, Czech, Japanese, German, French, Russian and Portuguese
o Spanish as a new language
o Netdata, WireGuard, Maltrail and Mail-Backup (PGP) plugin
o Netmap update for VirtIO, VLAN child and vmxnet support
o Bootstrap 3.4, LibreSSL 2.9, Unbound 1.9, PHP 7.2, Python 3.7, Squid 4

And here are the full changes against version 19.7-RC1:

o system: lower automatic gateway priority for tunnel interfaces
o system: only show enabled interfaces on gateway edit
o system: speed up console banner interface print
o interfaces: typo in default WAN selection for packet capture
o interfaces: support multiple interfaces for packet capture
o interfaces: fix ambiguity in get_parent_interface()
o firewall: restart filterlog with every filter reload
o firmware: add update syshook
o ipsec: phase2 IP type selector using the wrong class
o reporting: fix Insight bug not processing top port and address statistics
o ui: window_highlight_table_option() fix for Safari
o wizard: improve logo contrast in welcome message
o plugins: os-frr redistribute configuration fix (contributed by Cedric Vanet)
o plugins: os-intrusion-detection-content-et-pro 1.0.1 now uses suricata-4.0 rulesets
o plugins: os-haproxy 2.17[2][3]
o plugins: os-mail-backup 1.0 (contributed by Joao Vilaca)
o plugins: os-maltrail 1.0 (contributed by Michael Muenz)
o plugins os-smart 2.0 MVC conversion (contributed by Smart-Soft)
o plugins: os-tinc chroot setup with resolv.conf
o plugins: os-wireguard 1.0 (contributed by Michael Muenz)
o plugins: os-wol 2.2 fixes byte conversion
o src: bump netmap ring size, still too small in FreeBSD
o src: add FCC6_FCCA regulatory domain to ath_hal(4)
o src: restore IPV6_NEXTHOP option support
o src: fix privilege escalation in cd(4) driver[4]
o src: fix kernel stack disclosure in UFS/FFS[5]
o src: fix iconv buffer overflow[6]
o src: import tzdata 2019b
o ports: ca_root_nss 3.45
o ports: filterlog 0.3 will not print to console and lowercase IPv6 protocol output
o ports: postfix update is now non-interactive to prevent stalls
o ports: rrdtool 1.7.2[7]

Known issues and limitations:

o Web proxy squid update from version 3 to 4 breaks the cache database.  To repair go to “Services: Web Proxy: Administration” tab “Support” and click “Reset”.
o Web proxy login privilege is no longer available.  Access may be restricted by a group selector instead.
o Nano images require a reinstall using the latest image to avoid inode shortage which makes the system appear to run out of space during recent 19.1.x updates.
o OpenVPN no longer supports listening on gateway groups.  Use localhost paired with port forwards instead.

The public key for the 19.7 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://github.com/opnsense/plugins/pull/1347
[3] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/pull/1408
[4] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:11.cd_ioctl.asc
[5] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:10.ufs.asc
[6] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:09.iconv.asc
[7] https://github.com/oetiker/rrdtool-1.x/releases/tag/v1.7.2

SHA256 (OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2) = e022217d367abaf4fd1360f83e4664d28b3f37932dfe720974b9d7dc33bf50f7
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2) = 6fffefa0b09daea397e83f67bf730392125b720043c455597c05d3d80c2baa29
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2) = 98854d5a0a03850273aa2ebdd7e7b095dfec6a1e6b57341817bb5f5ffab2ca7b
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2) = 523e924586e431ccd421bb85ba1245ce4c8f3a6141b59623f5083d3e36bac592

SHA256 (OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-dvd-i386.iso.bz2) = 64c4e58966ab373a0aa6a544b020a39c5b86ecb79cb2988ac1f74b382c7d4765
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-nano-i386.img.bz2) = 3fa6af965f5996a718982617b5a13199747d237a669867b1ffecc951c3ebe455
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-serial-i386.img.bz2) = f0c76142f83b4988defa3fddc7a4cf2d930cbb0aee623d7b064462e25e146297
SHA256 (OPNsense-19.7-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img.bz2) = b425882604886a395730abeaa6a26b8805647609712f61c342cee29f58160006