Download pfSense 2.4.0

Version 2.4.0 of pfSense has been released. This package is based on the FreeBSD operating system and focuses on router and firewall tasks. It started in 2004 as a fork of m0n0wall due to differing views among the developers and over the years has grown into a router and firewall package that can be deployed in both small and very large environments. For more information, please refer to this page. The highlights for this release are as follows:

Highlights
Version 2.4.0 includes a long list of significant changes in pfSense software and in the underlying operating system and dependencies. Changes for pfSense 2.4.0 include:

• FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE as the base Operating System
• New pfSense installer based on bsdinstall, with support for ZFS, UEFI, and multiple types of partition layouts (eg GPT, BIOS)
• Support for Netgate ARM devices such as the SG-1000
• OpenVPN 2.4.x support, which brings features like AES-GCM ciphers, speed improvements, Negotiable Crypto Parameters (NCP), TLS encryption, and dual stack/multihome
• Translation of the GUI into 13 different languages! For more information on contributing to the translation effort, read our previous blog post and visit the project on Zanata
• WebGUI improvements, such as a new login page, improved GET/POST CSRF handling, significant improvements to the Dashboard and its AJAX handling
• Certificate Management improvements including CSR signing and international character support
• Captive Portal has been rewritten to work without multiple instances of ipfw

Additional benefits of FreeBSD 11.0 and 11.1 include:

• Security enhancements such as address space guards to address Stack Clash
• New and updated drivers for a variety of hardware
• Updated 802.11 wireless stack
• Updated IPsec kernel implementation
• Support for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Generation 2 virtual machines, and other Hyper-V support improvements
• Elastic Networking Adapter (ENA) support using the ena(4) FreeBSD driver for “next generation” enhanced networking on the Amazon® EC2™ platform

For more details, see the Release Notes and the previous Release Highlights post.