2.0-RC3 now available!
I’m happy to announce what will likely be the final 2.0 release candidate, RC3, is now available. RC2 was a snapshots-only tag. The mirrors are currently syncing, with a few of them done already and the remaining will sync within the coming hours. If you’d like to view all the changes you can track the revision history in github. If you aren’t familiar with what’s been added and changed in 2.0 in general, see the 2.0 new features and changes page.
There are considerably fewer open issues on 2.0 right now than there were on 1.2.3 when it was released, and no major outstanding problems. 2.0 has gotten widespread use in production environments over the last year plus including in our most critical networks, and looks to be ready for release. We expect final release within a month, and consider RC3 the preferred release for all new installs.
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June 22nd, 2011 at 7:40 am
yeah! great work! awaiting 2.0 stable…
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:43 am
[...] anuncio del equipo de desarrollo pfSense de la liberacion de la tercera, y posiblemente ultima version [...]
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:55 am
Thanks for this new release
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:27 am
[...] Açık kaynaklı, FreeBSD işletim sistemi üzerinde çalışan internet arayüzünden kolayca yapılandırabilen güvenlik duvarı ve yönlendirici çözümü olan Pfsense’in 2.0 R3 sürümü duyuruldu. [...]
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:29 am
closer to v2.0 stable …
good job for dev
June 22nd, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Great work guys. You’re doing a fantastic job!!!
June 22nd, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Is Layer7 filtering Working on this release?
June 22nd, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Good job on the new RC.
I’m updating to RC3 right now!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Great hard work. 2.0 stable after 1 single month. Can’t wait … Thank you guys.
June 23rd, 2011 at 6:35 am
[...] Buechler ogłosił wydanie trzeciego wydania kandydującego systemu pfSense 2.0, opartego o FreeBSD i przeznaczonego [...]
June 23rd, 2011 at 10:05 am
Un grand MERCI à vous !
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:54 am
@mhohman: My experience is yes AND no. Depends on your queue configuration and various other things. YMMV.
Great work nonetheless, guys!
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Running RC3 in a 2 machine carp, 5 interfaces in carp mode, working wonderfully. I can’t believe how fast the failover is. 2.0 was worth the wait! Good Job!
June 23rd, 2011 at 10:33 pm
An open source firewall as a firewall but powerful shareware. thanks a lot for the team that builds pfsense.
June 24th, 2011 at 1:32 am
happy to see this new release. i didn’t see where to file new bug reports, but when syncing rules for carp, it seems to have trouble syncing the vips between internal vlans. has anyone else experienced this?
June 24th, 2011 at 1:48 am
Joseph: Config sync works fine with VLANs, post info to the forum and someone can help.
June 24th, 2011 at 4:11 am
Grazie! Thanks! With pfsense I’ve forgotten commercial firewall since years..
June 24th, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Grazie! Great C.P.!
June 25th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
[...] Released Announcement pfSense-2.0-RC3-i386.iso.gz pfSense-2.0-RC3-amd64.iso.gz [...]
June 27th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
V2.0 has been stable in my environment since BETA5.
awesome product…I have never ran a beta in production until pfsense.
RELEASE will be so anti-climatic as it is the thrill of the chase…
June 28th, 2011 at 3:04 am
Thank you for great awesome product.
June 28th, 2011 at 8:24 am
pfSense 2.0 RC3…
Das Ziel ist fast erreicht. pfSense 2.0 ist beim dritten Release Candidate angekommen wie im pfSense Blog lesen kann. Momentan fahr ich auf meinem Heimrouter noch die RC 2 aber das wird sich heute oder morgen ändern. Ich hoffe das die fertige Version b…
June 28th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Thank You All for this special product. I’m really glad to see all your sharing and idea.
God Bless
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June 28th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
[...] pfSense | pfSense RC3 announcement (pfSense [...]
June 28th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Thank you for the hard work
June 29th, 2011 at 3:08 am
What is this new “memstick” version of pfSense? Used to be only live-installer and nanobsd versions… please enlighten me!
Keep up the good work!
June 29th, 2011 at 3:20 am
Fredrik: that’s for writing out to a USB flash drive, so you can boot from USB flash and do the installation from there, without having a CD.
June 29th, 2011 at 5:13 am
[...] anuncio del lanzamiento de la RC3: pfSense RC3 announcement (en el blog de [...]
June 29th, 2011 at 10:41 am
You guys are just amazing…
June 30th, 2011 at 1:15 am
thank you guys; a very goog job!!
but since the RC3 my lightsquid doesn´t working?!
June 30th, 2011 at 3:24 am
Sorry for my English and Google TRANSLATE (Ha Ha) ….
I am an IT engineer and have operational experience with Cisco, Allied Telesyn, Juniper, FortiGate, but PFSENSE my love … My favorite firewall …. Big 22 schools wireless network working behind pfsense … R123 … powerful and stable …. I test it two years in a company with 200 users and IPSec users …. never stopped …. Hardware Celeron 1.7/512 MB ram/40 GB HDD … They have 4 very robust accounting software … BUT PFSENSE SIMPLE “WORK, WORK and WORK” … My Next attempt was a network of over 1,000 users with 2 pfsense 2.0 RC-3 (2 x XEON / 4GB RAM) …. “TNX FOR PFSENSE” ….
June 30th, 2011 at 3:27 am
Mo_dulha: Please post that to the packages board on the forum, the lightsquid maintainer hasn’t kept the package up to date for 2.0.
To all: please post questions to the forum where developers will see them, they largely don’t read the forum comments.
July 1st, 2011 at 8:26 am
Thanks to all people, involved in this project.
For me pfSense ist a outstanding example of serious and resposible work.
Beta ist more stable then many other “finals”. The production release simply does what it shold do, in a reliable manner.
I’m shure 2.X will keep in line.
July 3rd, 2011 at 7:26 am
Great Work! Thanks to PF Developer Team!
July 3rd, 2011 at 8:34 am
Pfsense is very powerful ! I love it !. But I want wireless “N” support… My Pci card “N” not working.
Great works PF team !
July 4th, 2011 at 3:03 am
It is absolutely amazing! I love pfSense, it just goes and goes and never any trouble.
Thanks so much!
July 4th, 2011 at 11:18 am
Simply great ! I’ve been using pfsense for approx. 2 years now and I’ve never had any go wrong !
July 5th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Great product we are pfsesne since 2008 after our new Cisco router died.
We are using Pfsense v2 (with 5 nics) more than 6 months on our firm network (100 users, 2 mail servers, 3 web servers, 1 nas server) and all works perfect !!!
July 7th, 2011 at 7:58 am
Yay, it’s nearly there!
I’m using 2.0 it at work with eight NICs, three of them WANs with many customer VLANs, four IPSec tunnels to customers with cisco gear and an OpenVPN server. Solid as a rock!
You’re doing a great job, thank you!
July 10th, 2011 at 8:51 am
An absolutely amazing release! Everything works flawlessly, and installation of pfSense (full i386) is the simplest and fastest OS-installation I’ve ever did.
Now I finally have a stable ADSL2+-connection (PPPoE through a shitty Thomson-routermodem I managed to bridge) with 12 days uptime, and still counting.
I can’t find snort in the packages list (only snort-dev), but I guess it will appear when snort-dev is stable. Or I have I done something wrong? (2.0-RC3 (i386)
built on Tue Jun 21 16:50:25 EDT 2011)
July 11th, 2011 at 1:59 am
Endre: there’s a topic on the packages board of the forum on Snort, in short, the maintainer broke the main package and was gone for a while, he’s supposed to be fixing it soon.
July 12th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Thank you!!!!!! Not that 1.2.x of PFSense was bad or unreliable to begin with. Come to think of it, ever since I started using PFSense I’ve mostly forgotten about my firewalls/routers. It just works. Every time. No matter what gets thrown at the poor things. Even when you get a 100-fold increase in users, it won’t crash.
Really looking forward to this.
July 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Using 2.0 RC2 for 6 months with 5 PPTP, 12 OpenVPN, 2 MultiWan, Snort and it works really great. We are lovin it!
July 17th, 2011 at 9:51 am
Is the 2.0 hardware requirements the same as version 1.2.3?
July 21st, 2011 at 9:14 am
Just deployed pfSense 2.0 RC3. Thanks! Can’t wait for the final release.
I just want to share my configuration. 8x1gbps LAGG in LACP(802.3ad) mode + trunking(802.1q). 13 VLANs pass through this aggregated trunk ports connected to a multi-layer Cisco switch.
July 21st, 2011 at 11:31 pm
ted: yes
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:24 pm
How about the 2.0 release??
“We expect final release within a month” 22/6 2011
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:27 pm
We should be ready to release when we have time, in the middle of some major projects right now that we have to get out of the way first.
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:43 pm
Okay, I think that RC3 is safe enough, but my network is quite sensitive and I do not install any RC or beta versions. Therefore, I await the release of 2.0 Stable. Thanks for a great job. My new machine comes in one-two weeks. Hope it is clear until then.
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Done until then i mean ofc.
July 22nd, 2011 at 11:28 pm
That’ll be soon enough the RC’s have been quite stable since perhaps February… at least for me anyhow…
Keep up the good work. Thank you.
July 23rd, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Will it be possible to upgrade from 2.0 RC3 to the final release?
If yes, will it be done automatically? And will the update be digitally signed (from RC1 to RC2, they weren’t)?
Good work!
July 25th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Even our beta installs are quite stable, I hope to update to the final release soon, I believe it will be rock solid. Keep up the good work !
July 26th, 2011 at 2:19 am
Great Jobs guys … can’t wait for stable release
July 29th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Which Download should I use with PCEngines Hardware? i386?
August 2nd, 2011 at 11:23 pm
All PC Engines hardware is i386 only, none of their platforms have a 64 bit CPU. I would recommend i386 for all installs except where you have > 4 GB RAM.
August 2nd, 2011 at 11:25 pm
EVERYONE: Please don’t post questions here, take them to the forum or mailing list where far more people will see them, and you’ll get a response much more quickly anyway.
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:30 am
If i use the command prompt to execute say… “ping 1.2.3.4″ it locks the web interface until i kill the ping process manually. It does say that it is experimental, but it might still be an idea to fix this?
Anyway: GREAT WORK, it looks great and works just as it should! Thank you!
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:41 am
Jon: don’t do that. If you execute something via Diag>Command that never ends, yes it hangs up PHP because it never ends. Always been the case and always will be.
August 27th, 2011 at 12:41 am
Great Work.
I am new to pfSense, a friend of mine told me about pfSense for LoadBalancing capabilities, but I found more and more and more …..
Great work, keep on …. walking
August 27th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Great work guys,
Having custom monitor IPs is great as we have 2 ADSL lines here that fail regularly.
Being able to fail over to 3G is just another awesome feature here in South Africa!
Keep up the good work!
August 29th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Hey,
great work – when will the final 2.0 release be there (and possibly again a vm appliance to play around with). The month has passe
September 1st, 2011 at 11:18 am
I’m writing the release announcement in another tab as I write this.
It’ll come after the coming (US) holiday weekend.
September 5th, 2011 at 9:10 am
Great work, awaiting 2.0 final
September 6th, 2011 at 11:15 am
[quote=Chris Buechler]It’ll come after the coming (US) holiday weekend.[/quote]
when is that week? (sry i’m from argentina)
thx4all ^^ pfsense rlz
September 6th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
jesuscrist: that’s this week.
September 6th, 2011 at 4:31 pm
@Chris Buechler: I am seriously looking forward to blazing the .iso down from the mirror. Which mirrors usually get propogated first?
September 8th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
@Chris: It’s Thursday, I think, working on a holiday always messes with my head..
Still hoping to see that “other Tab” this week.
Also, was wondering if anyone is putting together a “training / introduction session” that you might be able to offer to User Groups like our Asterisk group ?
http://atlaug.com/drupal/
September 8th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Release announcement is written, Ermal will finish one last bug on Friday
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1696
and we’re done! We have to build and test several versions so we’ll have a busy weekend, but that should all be done by Monday.
September 8th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Phonebuff: we have such things that we do on occasion, and I’m glad to attend such meetings where possible, though generally only if the group can cover travel expenses (unless it’s near to me in Louisville, ATL is far enough I’d need a plane ticket) which is usually prohibitive.
I need to take one of the general presentations I’ve done and make it available for folks interested in presenting to such groups. I’ll do that after the coming conference schedule is out of the way (our hackathon, DerbyCon, FreeBSD dev summit, EuroBSDCon, all coming up in the next 6 weeks).
September 12th, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Release is tagged and building!
https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/ff2d4578efdff98c04bbdd5e9001096a7c62afec
we also have to build several branded versions and test all the resulting builds, so it’ll be another couple days til it gets to the mirrors. The last snapshot on the snapshot server is basically the same as release. There won’t be any more new snapshots.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:39 am
great work! awaiting…
September 13th, 2011 at 9:24 am
W00T!
September 13th, 2011 at 11:12 am
Awesome! I will wait a few days untill the final version is done, then I can upgrade my IPfire firewall to PFsense, I have tried a lot of software firewalls and PFsense is the best.