2.0.3 New Features and Changes

pfSense® software 2.0.3 is a maintenance release with some bug fixes since 2.0.2 release. It is possible to upgrade from any previous release to 2.0.3.

Because this release shortly followed after 2.0.2, review the 2.0.2 New Features and Changes document as well.

The changelog for pfSense 2.0.3-RELEASE follows.

Security Advisories

PPP

  • Fix obtaining DNS servers from PPP type WANs (PPP, PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP)

Captive Portal

  • Fix Captive Portal Redirect URL trimming

  • Voucher sync fixes

  • Captive portal pruning/locking fixes

  • Fix problem with fastcgi crashing

OpenVPN

  • Clear the route for an OpenVPN endpoint IP when restarting the VPN, to avoid a situation where a learned route from OSPF or elsewhere could prevent an instance from restarting properly

  • Always clear the OpenVPN route when using shared key, no matter how the tunnel network “CIDR” is set

  • Use the actual OpenVPN restart routine when starting/stopping from services rather than killing/restarting manually

  • Allow editing an imported CRL, and refresh OpenVPN CRLs when saving. #2652

  • Fix interface assignment descriptions when using > 10 OpenVPN instances

Logging

  • Put syslogd into secure mode so it refuses remote syslog messages

  • If syslog messages are in the log, and the hostname does not match the firewall, display the supplied hostname

  • Fix PPP log display to use the correct log handling method

  • Run IPsec logs through htmlspecialchars before display to avoid a potential persistent XSS from racoon log output (e.g. username)

Traffic Shaper

  • Fix editing of traffic shaper default queues. #1995

  • Fix wording for VoIP address option in the shaper. Add rule going the other direction to catch connections initiated both ways

Dashboard & General GUI

  • Use some tweaks to PHP session management to prevent the GUI from blocking additional requests while others are active

  • Remove cmd_chain.inc and preload.php to fix some issues with lighttpd, fastcgi, and resource usage

  • Firmware settings manifest (Site list) now bolds and denotes entries that match the current architecture, to help avoid accidental cross-architecture upgrades

  • Add header to DHCP static mappings table

  • When performing a factory reset in the GUI, change output style to follow halt.php and reboot.php so the shutdown output appears in the correct location on the page

  • Better validation of parameters passed during S.M.A.R.T. operations for testing HDDs

  • Fixed SNMP interface binding glitch (Setting was active but not reflected when viewed in GUI)

  • Add a new class called addgatewaybox to make it easier to respect custom themes #2900

Console Menu Changes

  • Correct accidental interface assignment changes when changing settings on the console menu

  • Console menu option 11 now kills all active PHP processes, kills lighttpd, and then restarts the GUI. This is a more effective way to restart the GUI since if a PHP process is hung, restarting lighttpd alone will not recover from that

  • Fix port display after LAN IP reset

Misc Changes

  • Change how the listening address is passed to miniupnpd, the old method was resulting in errors for some users

  • Fix “out” packet count reporting

  • Be a little smarter about the default kernel in rare cases where it cannot determine what was in use

  • Pass -S to tcpdump to avoid an increase in memory consumption over time in certain cases

  • Minimise rewriting of /etc/gettytab (https://forum.netgate.com/post/51581)

  • Make is_pid_running function return more conistent results by using isvalidpid

  • Fix ataidle error on systems that have no ATA HDD. #2739

  • Update Time Zone database zoneinfo to 2012.j to pick up on recent zone/DST/etc changes

  • Fix handling of LDAP certificates, the library no longer properly handles files with spaces in the CA certificate filename

  • Bring in the RCFILEPREFIX as constant fixes from HEAD, since otherwise rc.stop_packages was globbing in the wrong dir and executing the wrong scripts. Also seems to have fixed the “bad fd” error

  • NTP restart fixes

  • Gitsync now pulls in git package from pfSense package repository rather than FreeBSD

  • Fixed handling of RRD data in config.xml backups when exporting an encrypted config #2836

  • Moved apinger status to /var/run instead of /tmp

  • Fixes for FTP proxy on non-default gateway WANs

  • Fixes for OVA images

  • Use new pfSense repository location ( http://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/ )

  • Add patch to compensate apinger calculation for down gateways by time taken from other tasks like rrd/status file/etc

lighttpd changes

  • Improve tuning of lighttpd and php processes

  • Use separate paths for GUI and Captive Portal fastcgi sockets

  • Always make sure php has its own process manager to make lighttpd happy

  • Make mod_fastcgi last to have url.rewrite work properly

  • Enable mod_evasive if needed for Captive Portal

  • Simplify lighttpd config

  • Send all lighttpd logs to syslog

Binary changes

  • dnsmasq to 2.65

  • rsync to 3.0.9

  • links 2.7

  • rrdtool to 1.2.30

  • PHP to 5.2.17_13

  • OpenVPN 2.2 stock again (Removed IPv6 patches since those are only needed on 2.1 now)

  • Fix missing “beep” binary on amd64

  • Fix potential issue with IPsec routing of client traffic

  • Remove lighttpd spawnfcgi dependency

  • Add splash device to wrap_vga kernels (It’s in GENERIC so full installs already have it). #2723

filterdns

  • Correct an issue with unallocated structure

  • Avoid issues with pidfiles being overwritten, lock the file during modifications

  • Make filterdns restartable and properly cleanup its tables upon exit or during a reconfiguration

dhcpleases

  • Correct use after free and also support hostnames with other DNS suffix

  • Reinit on any error rather than just forgetting. Also the difftime checks are done after having complete view, no need to do them every time

  • Typo fixes

  • Log that a HUP signal is being sent to the pid file submitted by argument

  • Prevent bad parsing of empty hostnames in lease file. Add an f option to run dhcplease in foreground. The only option needed while in foreground is h parameter and the only usable one as well