A new version of the distribution has been released to create a pfSense 2.1.1 firewall.

On April 4, 2014, the distribution release for creating firewalls and pfSense 2.1.1 network gateways was introduced. The distribution is based on the FreeBSD 8.3 codebase, using the m0n0wall project and actively using pf and ALTQ. There are many images available for download for the i386 and amd64 architecture, ranging in size from 80 to 180 MB, including a LiveCD and images for uploading directly to Compact Flash's of various sizes (512, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB).


pfSense has the largest community among free opensource systems for creating software routers, and work on updates is ongoing. The official forum has a Russian branch.

Mostly in the new version, there are security issues in the main FreeBSD CVEs.
The main innovations in version 2.1.1:
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• The following CVEs are closed:
  FreeBSD-SA-14: 01.bsnmpd / CVE-2014-1452
  FreeBSD-SA-14: 02.ntpd / CVE-2013-5211
  FreeBSD-SA-14: 03.openssl / CVE-2013-4353, CVE-2013-6449, CVE-2013-6450;
• Updated em / igb / ixgb / ixgbe drivers, added support for Intel i210 and i354 controllers;
• Increased performance of some Intel 10Gb modules;
• Now when extracting / installing / updating packages using HTTPS;
• Enhanced protection from XSS injections;

Full list of innovations and changes.
PfSense blog entry .
Russian forum thread.