It is now based on the FreeBSD 11.0 operating system
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Dec 19, 2016 23:59 GMT · By Marius Nestor The OPNsense project had the great pleasure of announcing the release of the first Beta images of the upcoming OPNsense 17.1 operating system developed for firewalls and routers.
Built upon the foundation of the FreeBSD 11.0 operating system, OPNsense 17.1 promises to be a major release featuring a large number of new technologies and functionalities, among which we can mention a very useful SSH (Secure Shell) remote installer, PHP 7.0 support, native PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) authentication against 2FA, new Tinc VPN and FTP proxy plugins, as well as support for Czech and Italian languages.
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