Comments on: pfSense 1.3 is now 2.0

By: RB

RB — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:39:51 +0000

I cant wait for the release of v 2.0 but i wonder will the feature for MAC address blocking be added, as this is a very important feature for a firewall !!

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:13:12 +0000

http://cvstrac.pfsense.org/timeline

By: stygma

stygma — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:08:51 +0000

Where can the changelogs be found for 1.2.1 and 2.0?

By: Nilson Brito

Nilson Brito — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:53:02 +0000

Só de ter mudado a versão do sistema operacional para freebsd 7 já é suficiente, foram muitas as mudanças no código no novo pfsense! Estou usando a alguns meses, já implantei em mais de 3 filiais, e mais de 4 clientes. Estou muito satisfeito.

Edit: translated from Portuguese by Google:
Just to have changed the version of the operating system for FreeBSD 7 is already sufficient, many changes in the new code pfsense! I’m using a few months, has deployed by more than 3 branches, and more than 4 clients. I am very happy.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:02:38 +0000

1.2.x gets no new features.

2.0 already contains automatic client configuration for OpenVPN, it compiles the user’s configuration into a single Windows executable that installs the client and does the configuration automatically.

AV in general is an overrated joke, especially at your network edge, but it may happen at some point. Mail proxy is another that may happen at some point.

By: darklogic

darklogic — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:47:30 +0000

Will there be any added features for 1.2 or 2.0 versions of pfSense that will have proxy based services such as.
1.) Mail based proxies using spamassasin and claimAV.
2.) Web browsing security with ClaimAV and Antispyware.
3.) OpenVPN automatic client configuration file generator and deployment.
In other words, will you have addtional filtering solutions like Untangle, Endian, Clarkconnect, Smoothwall, ect…

I currently use pfSense as a edge firewall with Untangle running as a transparent bridge filtering system for phishing, spam, web filtering, AV, and reporting behind pfSense.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:49:16 +0000

The naming convention is messed up as things get converted over, it’ll all be sorted out in the coming days.

By: Southman

Southman — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:45:12 +0000

With the changes I am a little confused. Is RELENG_1 still the 2.0 (formerly 1.3) snapshot directory? Then the pfSense-Full-UPdate-7-xxxxx would be the update to the main snapshot in that directory. Why is there 1.2.1 RC2 snapshots in both directories?

Could you implement a better naming convention for those of us that work with both the 1.2.1 and 2.0 snaps? At the moment it is very difficult to know which is the 2.0 snapshot vs the 1.2.1 snapshot.

By: BennTech

BennTech — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:41:52 +0000

Last half of 2009 for 2.0?? Ah, man…well, I guess I’d rather have my firewall secure than rushed.

Maybe I should dust off my programming hat and help, though by the time I got up to speed with pfSense code & BSD (I’m a Windows man–don’t hate me) you’ll probably be on version 2.3.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:39:37 +0000

Because other than the FreeBSD change, there is little changed in 1.2.1, strictly bug fixes and several changes required for the FreeBSD version change.

Granted the switch to FreeBSD 7.0 is significant, but it’s still coming off our RELENG_1_2 CVS branch so it will remain a 1.2.x release.