2.4.1 New Features and Changes

Security / Errata

  • Fixes for the set of WPA2 Key Reinstallation Attack issues commonly known as KRACK #7951

  • Changed upgrade handling to use the pkg-static binary to prevent errors when moving to new major FreeBSD version Fixed a VT console race condition panic at boot on VMware platforms (especially ESXi 6.5.0U1) #7925

  • Fixed a bsnmpd problem that causes it to use all available CPU and RAM with the hostres module in cases where disk drives are present without media inserted #6882

  • Fixed an upgrade problem due to FreeBSD 11 removing legacy ada aliases, which caused some older installs to fail when mounting root post-upgrade #7937

  • Changed the boot-time fsck process the ensure the disk is mounted read-only before running fsck in the preen mode.

Known Issues

  • The VLAN changes mentioned in the Interfaces section may prevent PPP sessions from working on VLANs in some cases, see #7981

Interfaces

  • Changed the VLAN interface names to use the ‘dotted’ format of FreeBSD, which is shorter and helps to keep the interface name smaller than the limit (16) This fixes the 4 digit VLAN issues when the NIC name is 6 bytes long.

  • Improved the ‘Assign Interfaces’ console process to automatically stop when there are no more interfaces to assign

  • Improved the ‘Set interface IP address’ console process to accept ‘IP/mask’ notation

  • Fixed wireless client interfaces so they do not reconfigure wireless on a link up event, or else they can get stuck in a loop #7960

  • Fixed setting VLAN Priority in VLAN interface configuration #7748

Dashboard

  • Fixed a problem with the Picture Dashboard widget when it does not have a picture defined #7896

  • Fixed time display for UTC in the NTP Dashboard Widget #7714

  • Fixed an IPsec widget error when it would get back null data after a session ended #6318

  • Improved error checking to prevent dashboard widget parsing errors

DNS

  • Added an option for the DNS Resolver (Unbound) to serve expired records from the cache after their TTL expires which can improve speed in some cases #7814

  • Fixed the DNS Resolver (Unbound) to allow snoop from localhost by default, otherwise “dig +trace” or “drill -T” queries from the firewall itself fail #7884

XMLRPC

  • Fixed XMLRPC Sync to prevent a lock that would never be unlocked

  • Fixed XMLRPC sync to ensure a proper empty array is returned instead of NULL, so that the last item of a section can be removed without error #7953

Misc

  • Fixed Captive Portal voucher test and expire pages #7939

  • Added UEFI 32 and UEFI 64 filenames defined inside a pool to dhcpd.conf #7949

  • Fixed operation of the “Reset All States on WAN IP Change” GUI setting #7921

  • Changed OpenVPN to retry client auth when it fails by default (auth-retry nointeract) #7506

  • Changed the Cryptographic Accelerator module options to allow both the AES-NI and Crypto modules to be loaded at the same time #7810

  • Added URL fingerprinting to the login page CSS

  • Added the device serial/id to the console and SSH menu banner #7968

  • Fixed “Unknown Step Values” in certain RRD graph cases #6860