Hi all,

It has been 5 months since 16.1 came out. Since then, over 1500 commits and 18 stable releases have continuously improved and enhanced the project. Since then, thousands of new users have joined. And, since then, our new documentation has been extended and tweaked with numerous guides, explanations and answers to your questions.

The cumulation of these efforts is this announcement of the first release candidate for 16.7. Images are being provided to encourage to try these in a fresh setting, but the config import in the installer and the GUI work as usual so that migration is simple. Checksums for the images can be found below. VGA images have been omitted to permit work on the UEFI variant in the meantime.

https://opnsense.org/download/

The RC cycle will end in a month with the actual 16.7 release so that early birds will not have to reinstall afterwards. Remember: feedback is key in this phase, feel free to contact us in any way you like and let us make 16.7 grand together.

Here is our list of major features that were worked on since 16.1:


Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

SHA256 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-cdrom-amd64.iso.bz2) = d5db6f91221121ab2e0efb962e9aa08ec095977e733a74f4e797d81329a4a1b7
SHA256 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2) = 596aa7468850a1857140bc3373650556b53bdde73fa1ac7cc639a868f4a0bcc7
SHA256 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2) = c28f7eebb6b56e91152bd21dee6a741ad09732d144af05c9a5099da12961531f
SHA256 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-cdrom-i386.iso.bz2) = fcac3e7aad5c09ed4f5352dc125cd00e200616bc77a47fa3ce4cf04826fc0970
SHA256 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-nano-i386.img.bz2) = 6a22e438ef30f7611df835ca53b0e0087d7eda3137f41224d2ee9e0d01d9ffe4
SHA256 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-serial-i386.img.bz2) = aeb5502a81520f7398187635d0426630034c276491fa32512e5702eb73d8525f

MD5 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-cdrom-amd64.iso.bz2) = 5a440e46e841d3c4c05bdb8ee6566fe6
MD5 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img.bz2) = 13ccbcf88b1b5338ccba7440526f146f
MD5 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img.bz2) = 97a3c5e08c4cecff62c5c63d5e29dda0
MD5 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-cdrom-i386.iso.bz2) = 8cced3f828d063ac237d96f32a8bb2e3
MD5 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-nano-i386.img.bz2) = 2f38a263a2f0ed2071d5698e31eeb30f
MD5 (OPNsense-16.7.r1-OpenSSL-serial-i386.img.bz2) = 397a54eb4a51f5703b8ec3062afbcef0