What’s up!

We return briefly for a small patch set and plan to pin the 20.1 upgrade path to this particular version to avoid unnecessary stepping stones. We wish you all a healthy Friday. And of course: patch responsibly!

Here are the full patch notes:

o system: syslog-ng related fixes during package management based restart
o system: change dpinger syslog message to reflect correct RTT and RTTd unit (contributed by fhloston)
o web proxy: add toggle for pinger service (contributed by nowyouseeit)
o web proxy: add missing X-Forwarded-For header option
o mvc: new Base64Field type
o mvc: new VirtualIPField type
o plugins: os-acme-client 2.0[1]
o plugins: os-bind 1.14[2]
o plugins: os-chrony 1.1[3]
o ports: monit 5.27.1[4]
o ports: php 7.3.24[5]
o ports: pkg upstream fix for upgrade script hang[6]
o ports: strongswan 5.9.0[7]

Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

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[1] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/security/acme-client/pkg-descr
[2] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/dns/bind/pkg-descr
[3] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/master/net/chrony/pkg-descr
[4] https://mmonit.com/monit/changes/
[5] https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.3.24
[6] https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/1893
[7] https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2020/07/29/strongswan-5.9.0-released.html