OPNsense 19.1 Released: BSD-Based Firewall / Networking OS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OPNsense 19.1 Released: BSD-Based Firewall / Networking OS

OPNsense, the FreeBSD-based firewall/router platform forked from m0n0wall, is out with its first release of 2019 and it also marks four years since the original OS release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OPNsense-19.1-Released

[Zyklon]

It's forked off PfSense.

[edwaleni]

I will try it again. That prior version (18) of BSD had a hard time with the Realtek NIC's. The appliance I test UTM's with has them built in.

[Britoid]

It's forked off PfSense.

With 4 years of divergence.

[Tsuroerusu]

"based on FreeBSD sources with security hardening via HardenedBSD"

Actually, this version is entirely based on HardenedBSD 11.2, which is a big deal given this list:

https://hardenedbsd.org/content/easy-feature-comparison

[starshipeleven]

It's forked off PfSense.

With 4 years of divergence.

and to the contrary of Pfsense they still plan to support hardware without AES-NI instructions for the forseeable future (while Pfsense will drop them with next major release, aka 2.5.x)
https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense...nd-aes-ni.html

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=5097.0

They also still support 32bit hardware too.