[pfSense] CE 2.7.0 Software and pfSense Plus 23.05.1 Software Now Available for Upgrades
This includes improvements in captive portal and limiters, UPnP for game systems, new gateway state killing options, Firewall/NAT rule usability, and more.
Highlights:
- PHP has been upgraded from 7.4.x to 8.2.6
- The base operating system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 14-CURRENT
- Added support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption with IPsec
- Captive Portal has been migrated from IPFW to PF
- Fix for UPnP and multiple game systems
- New gateway state killing options for smoother failover
- Firewall/NAT rule usability improvements such as buttons to toggle multiple rules and copy rules to other interfaces
- OpenVPN upgraded to 2.6.4
- OpenVPN Shared Key Tunnels Deprecated – They still work, but will trigger warnings in the logs and GUI.
- New Packet Capture GUI
- UDP Broadcast Relay Package
pfSense CE 2.7.0 Software and pfSense Plus 23.05.1 Software Now Available for Upgrades
We are happy to announce that pfSense® CE version 2.7.0 and pfSense® Plus version 23.05.1 software are now available.

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