OPNsense 19.7.1 released

[franco]

Dear all,

We do not wish to keep you from enjoying your summer time, but this is a recommended security update enriched with reliability fixes for the new 19.7 series. Of special note are performance improvements as well as a fix for a longstanding NAT before IPsec limitation.

Here are the full patch notes:

o system: do not create automatic copies of existing gateways
o system: do not translate empty tunables descriptions
o system: remove unwanted form action tags
o system: do not include Syslog-ng in rc.freebsd handler
o system: fix manual system log stop/start/restart
o system: scoped IPv6 "%" could confuse mwexecf(), use plain mwexec() instead
o system: allow curl-based downloads to use both trusted and local authorities
o system: fix group privilege print and correctly redirect after edit
o system: use cached address list in referrer check
o system: fix Syslog-ng search stats
o firewall: HTML-escape dynamic entries to display aliases
o firewall: display correct IP version in automatic rules
o firewall: fix a warning while reading empty outbound rules configuration
o firewall: skip illegal log lines in live log
o interfaces: performance improvements for configurations with hundreds of interfaces
o reporting: performance improvements for Python 3 NetFlow aggregator rewrite
o dhcp: move advanced router advertisement options to correct config section
o ipsec: replace global array access with function to ensure side-effect free boot
o ipsec: change DPD action on start to "dpdaction = restart"
o ipsec: remove already default "dpdaction = none" if not set
o ipsec: use interface IP address in local ID when doing NAT before IPsec
o web proxy: fix database reset for Squid 4 by replacing use of ssl_crtd with security_file_certgen
o plugins: os-acme-client 1.24[1]
o plugins: os-bind 1.6[2]
o plugins: os-dnscrypt-proxy 1.5[3]
o plugins: os-frr now restricts characters BGP prefix-list and route-maps[4]
o plugins: os-google-cloud-sdk 1.0[5]
o ports: curl 7.65.3[6]
o ports: monit 5.26.0[7]
o ports: openssh 8.0p1[8]
o ports: php 7.2.20[9]
o ports: python 3.7.4[10]
o ports: sqlite 3.29.0[11]
o ports: squid 4.8[12]


Stay safe and hydrated,
Your OPNsense team

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[1] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/pull/1399
[2] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/dns/bind/pkg-descr
[3] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/dns/dnscrypt-proxy/pkg-descr
[4] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/net/frr/pkg-descr
[5] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/pull/1392
[6] https://curl.haxx.se/changes.html
[7] https://mmonit.com/monit/changes/
[8] https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.0
[9] https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.2.20
[10] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-374/
[11] https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_29_0.html
[12] http://lists.squid-cache.org/pipermail/squid-announce/2019-July/000100.html