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 over 12 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.

These are the most prominent changes since version 18.7:

Here are the full changes against version 19.1-RC2:

Migration notes and minor incompatibilities to look out for:

The public key for the 19.1 series is:

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Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

SHA256 (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2) = 0a9e02954da1ddd1f0b7673394bbf81cfa74a1d5378600a87d3a9e6a26d3104d
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