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anon75264233 · February 18, 2021, 2:49pm

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PfSense Plus 21.02 Released Tech Policy & News

[image] The latest pfSense FE has been released to pfSense Plus 21.02 Looks like a lot of big changes under the hood! More to read about: Some key points of interest: 3. What happens to pfSense FE? pfSense FE - the historic fork of the pfSense open-source project that Netgate has pre-installed on its appliances, and via public cloud service providers - will be replaced with pfSense Plus. Existing Netgate customers running pfSense FE will be able to upgrade to pfSense Plus from the user interface. 11. Can I get pfSense Plus for my own hardware or virtual machine? Today, pfSense Plus 21.02 is only available on Netgate appliances, AWS, and Azure platforms. We plan to make pfSense Plus available for use on 3rd party hardware and select virtual machines by June 2021, if not sooner. There will be a no charge path for home and lab use and a chargeable version for commercial use. Read the complete Netgate pfSense Plus FAQ here. So it looks like there is now going to be a large divergence between CE features and Plus features; as the only way to get Plus to buy pfSense hardware. Thoughts below on this change