Finding as of 26.1.2_5 - Updating Aliases via API happens about 30% faster

Started by jonny5, February 18, 2026, 05:15:55 PM

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Just wanted to extend OPNSense, the community, FreeBSD, associated projects, and the Open Source community a thank you!!

I wrote a Linux ran multi-threaded Python detail to update several Aliases (two of which have 10k+ IPs) with IP lists via OPNSense API, and on average it is completing now in about 30% less time (that means I block an attacker (CrowdSec enabled Reverse Proxy + Suricata) at Layer 3 faster).

No change to my code, I've already tweaked it for speed in about every way (nice in Linux, pre-compiling Python...) and this speed up is purely because OPNSense continues to become a more lean/mean beast.
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