pfSense Digest

We will be having a developer summit at BSDCan this year, as the first three contributors to the project – Scott Ullrich, Bill Marquette and yours truly – will all be in attendance. The three of us combined have more than 10 years of dedication to this project.

Plans for the Week

We plan to work on the open tickets on 1.2 so we can get 1.2.1-RC1 out. Several tickets have collected that we either know are problems and need to fix, or are potential problems we need to investigate. Once we get all those resolved, we’ll release 1.2.1-RC1 (which will only be bug fixes since 1.2 and be based on FreeBSD 6.3).

Bill is going to work on getting us converted from CVS to git for revision control, and bring online a significantly improved bug tracking and development tracking system. More on that in another post later.

We will also work on some 1.3 development while there. Likely candidates include OpenVPN, 3G wireless and PPP support, and any number of other things.

Seeking Donations

May 19, 2008 edit: Many thanks to those who contributed. We collected enough to meet our initial goal, and still have enough left over for pizza the next couple times Scott and I get together to work on pfSense. If you would still like to contribute to support our development efforts feel free to do so, the money is used to cover food and beverage expenses when developers gather to work on the pfSense project. Contents of the initial post follow.

We’re looking for contributions to cover our food and beverage expenses during this event. The community gets a lot of great work on pfSense, and we get fed. Similar developer get togethers have proven very fruitful over the past 3 years we have been holding them, and we look for this to be another successful week. Your support is much appreciated!

Most of the development time since the 1.2 release has been spent on the new features in 1.3, however an updated 1.2 release is also in the works.

Version 1.2.1 will be released this summer. It will use FreeBSD 6.3 as the base system, and incorporate fixes for a few issues discovered since the 1.2 release. No new features will ever be added to 1.2.x releases.

Version 1.3 is not yet publicly available. With BSDCan coming very soon, that has been more of a focus than testing and preparing the initial public 1.3 release. It may not be available until after BSDCan.