FreeSense 1.2 Development

Development 1.2 documentation. This line is experimental and unsupported. For production firewalls use the Stable 1.1 documentation.

Experimental, no support

Development builds are produced nightly from current sources. A build that passed its signature, integrity, and boot checks is still experimental software and can contain defects that need a reinstall to recover from. Moving a system from Stable to Development is one-way: the updater never offers Stable again on a Development system. Keep a configuration backup and recovery media.

What Development offers today

FreeSense Fleet

Self-hosted central management for many firewalls: no cloud service, and nothing leaves your network unless you choose it. A live dashboard and wall-screen view, updates in rings, policies, backups and HA pairs. Experimental. Fleet documentation →

Recent changes in 1.2

What reached the Development line lately: Fleet 0.2 to 0.5, WebUI changes, PHP 8, REST API and hardening fixes. Recent changes →

Security advisories

Which FreeBSD security advisories are open, fixed or not relevant on 1.2, and FreeSense’s own bugs. Security advisories →

Nightly builds

The Development cycle starts daily at 01:00 UTC. System and optional packages rebuild only when their inputs change. How Development is built →

arm64 and Raspberry Pi previews

The Raspberry Pi appliance images are published only on this line. The generic arm64 UEFI installer is built here nightly and is also on Stable from 1.1.1. Raspberry Pi appliances →

Everything in 1.1

Development starts from FreeSense 1.1: the REST API, custom package repositories, VXLAN, remote backups, and the reworked WebUI. Tour of 1.1 →

Contribute

Build optional packages, integrate a package with the WebUI, and test changes on a lab system. Build a package →

The 1.1 highlights Development builds on

REST API and API ExplorerVersioned JSON API under /api/v1 with per-user keys and WebUI-equivalent privileges.

Custom package repositoriesYour own pkg repositories and FreeBSD's, always below the FreeSense repositories.

Rebuilt Package ManagerFilters, a review step before every change, and a live output console.

Reworked WebUI navigationGrouped menus, Ctrl+K menu search, and rebuilt pages.

VXLAN interfacesUnicast or multicast overlays that can join bridges.

ZFS boot-environment upgradesCloned environment, first-boot health check, one automatic rollback.

Documentation editions

Stable 1.1Supported production releases: 1.1.0 and later 1.1.x patch releases.

Development 1.2You are here. Experimental, unsupported, rebuilt nightly.

FreeSense 1.0 (frozen)The 1.0.x documentation as it was at 1.0.7. No longer maintained.

One edition, fully open

FreeSense has a single edition. Development, Stable, and every optional package are built from public, Apache-2.0 licensed sources. Report bugs found on Development builds as GitHub issues, and report security problems privately through GitHub private vulnerability reporting.