OpenVPN legacy plugin

[mburmester]

Hi,

the roadmap says

Move legacy IPsec and OpenVPN plugins to tier 3

Tier 3 means the plugins will still be available but no support? Unfortunately I still need the old plugin for now.

[franco]

Correct, you can read about support tiers here https://docs.opnsense.org/support.html#supplemental-tier-2

There are no plans to remove either this year so they will keep working. If a problem appears with them (like a major OpenVPN update) it's likely the legacy plugin will not be updated until that is shipped for the MVC version in core, which could introduce incompatibilities for example.

At some point we will make an inventory for feature parity and when there's enough overlap we will let go of the old plugins (maybe 2027, 2028, who knows yet). The tier switch is an encouragement to move to the new core GUI and report issues and missing features to reach for feature parity (as far as that's possible or wanted for a couple of reasons like design, security and robustness).


Cheers,
Franco

[mburmester]

Thanks for clarifying. The reason why I need the old plugin is that the new interface always sets a key-direction. But my VPN provider needs key-direction not set.

[franco]

Worth creating a ticket about then :)