Hey,

Assorted improvements are being shipped with this release.  Of special
note is the proper monitoring of down gateways which allows the new
gateway watcher to see the gateway come back online when plugging a
cable.  A Wazuh agent plugin was added and the ddclient plugin received
new protocol support including AWS Route53 amongst others.

Here are the full patch notes:

o system: improve monitoring of down gateways
o system: clear all /var/run directories on bootup
o system: put lock()/unlock() back for legacy plugin compatibility
o interfaces: fix special device name chars used in shell variables
o interfaces: prevent IPv6 mismatches when using compressed format in VIP
o interfaces: remove descriptive name from newwanip logging
o interfaces: typo in MRU handling for PPP
o interfaces: improve PPPoE MTU handling
o interfaces: switch rtsold to -A mode
o firewall: missing interface group registration on group creation
o dhcp: improve UX of the new MVC lease pages
o firmware: remove defunct mirror "Dept. of CSE, Yuan Ze University"
o intrusion detection: fix events originating from "int^" due to IPS mode use
o ipsec: add colon to supported character list for pre-shared key IDs
o ipsec: reqid should not stick when copying a phase 1
o monit: fix empty timeout value (contributed by Michael Muenz)
o openvpn: properly map user groups for authentication
o openvpn: bring instances into server field
o openvpn: fix separator for redirect-gateway attribute in instances and CSO
o unbound: fixed configuration when custom blocks are used (contributed by Evgeny Grin)
o plugins: os-ddclient 1.15[1]
o plugins: os-iperf adds rubygem-rexml dependency (contributed by Hannah Kiekens)
o plugins: os-relayd 2.7 now supports newer upstream release of relayd
o plugins: os-wazuh-agent 1.0[2]
o src: remove if_wg from kernel modules to unbreak current wireguard-go use
o src: axgbe: LED control for A30 platform
o src: gif: revert in{,6}_gif_output() misalignment handling
o src: igc: sync srrctl buffer sizing with e1000
o src: ip_output: ensure that mbufs are mapped if ipsec is enabled
o src: ixgbe: warn once for unsupported SFPs
o src: ixgbe: add support for 82599 LS
o src: ixl: add link state polling
o src: ixl: port ice's atomic API to ixl
o src: rss: set pin_default_swi to 0 by default
o src: rtsol: introduce an 'always' script
o ports: dnspython 2.4.2
o ports: krb5 1.21.2[3]
o ports: openldap 2.6.6[4]
o ports: openvpn 2.6.6[5]
o ports: php 8.2.9[6]
o ports: phalcon 5.3.0[7]
o ports: phpseclib 3.0.21[8]


Stay safe,
Your OPNsense team

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[1] https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/stable/23.7/dns/ddclient/pkg-descr
[2] https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/wazuh-agent.html
[3] https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.21/
[4] https://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes_lts.html
[5] https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/v2.6.6/Changes.rst
[6] https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.2.9
[7] https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/releases/tag/v5.3.0
[8] https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/releases/tag/3.0.21
