One suggestion for OpnSense - a pane on the main page for messages.

[tomj@northwestusa.com]

One suggestion.
On the main OpnSense web page dashboard, I think a reserved window pane of a few lines of information from the OpnSense team which automatically show up on the main dashboard could be a neat thing.

Lets say there is an announcement or something, if the OpnSense dashboard could auto check and grab a brief message, then you have a pretty neat method of quickly getting info to administrators who manage OpnSense without the need to daily check these forums.  This could be an administrator off or on or manual poll selectable feature.

My 1st two cents.

[weust]

There is a maillinglist as well. To me that would seem like a more logical place.
How often to do you log in to firewall?

[tomj@northwestusa.com]

Right now - every day.

Later, only when I am checking something.

[franco]

There is a RSS widget on the dashboard that can be enabled that points to our blog and the release notes. It could use a face lift, but it works. We are, however, trying to minimise "opt-out" behaviour for services polling the internet from a firewall installation. Our firmware upgrades do not probe on its own, the apinger gateway monitoring is off by default in the next version. Automatic polling options make their way back into the system sooner or later, but they will always be off by default. Question here is where to put the on/off switch so that (a) it's not overly hidden and (b) it's not always there to bug users?

The mailing lists are very low frequency and reliable. Although devel@ and users@ could get a few discussions going... Most of the fun happens on IRC (FreeNode #opnsense), Twitter @opnsense and this forum.

Long story short: lacking a good way to do notifications that are being read, don't collide with privacy concerns and are timely, present and useful. Asking for too much? Don't know.