 So in end of August here PF Sense reached 2.4 release candidate. I know it's September I've been a little busy So I'm finally getting around to review the release candidate and the latest iteration. So I just downloaded it This the afternoon and so what is it today is September 14th? So it's the latest iteration as of September 14th I don't have a I don't know exactly when they're gonna go full release But this is fairly Comprehensive as to what it should look like in the end once it does go to full release I'm gonna do a full review Couple highlights of the two version 2.4 is New PF Sense installer and that's cool It does support ZFS in UFI which I kind of like that the ZFS is particularly because you can set up full ZFS support And I'll show you that when we get to the installer part support for necking arm neck gate arm devices the SG-1000 and SG-3100 I've reviewed the SG-1000 I've actually put it in a small client with only a few computers and it works really good I've actually not had a problem with that I probably want to do a follow-up video when I get a chance on it and eventually I might order one of these SG-3100s and take a Look at them. I like the arm devices They're low wattage and they seem to work really well they move to the latest open open VPN 2.4 stream Which is great VPNs are really really important and more popular than ever We install a lot of them for our clients is one of the reasons I like PF Sense because they have a very simple way to Deploy VPNs on Windows boxes for people that want to remotely access their network More languages that's cool Web GUI improvements such as a new login page. Yeah, we'll show you that tooth login page Definitely new new certificate manager upgraded wireless stack. I've not done a lot of videos on the whole the whole wireless stack works And PF Sense is pretty neat. You can attach directly US wireless devices to it But we usually recommend, you know an external access point. That's we don't use it a lot They are deprecating 32-bit and nano BSD versions So those ones are going to be deprecated and no more support for that So let's go right in and take a look the installer and talk about what's new So you're familiar when you boot the CD. It looks pretty much the same as it did before I got it in my virtual machine here We'll go ahead and run through the installer most of it looks the same But they've just basically added some more menus because it's a newer version So you still have your install and rescue ignore the error message at 12-portion mobile It doesn't do that in regular hardware when I was testing it only does this in my virtual machine Continue with default mate keymap auto manual shell Auto ZFS guided route on ZFS. So I thought this was kind of cool So you choose the ZFS here and you can choose the disk type pool name force 4k What or not you want encryption? I like this too Good and bad is every time you reboot pf sense, you're gonna have to type in the disk Password on there because it is full Encryption does have the option to encrypt the swap as well. We're not going to do any disk encryption Well, I guess we could do encrypt to show you what it works Then we go back up here pool type stripe mirror raid raid z3. Yes, you can build your Pfsense on a raid z3 triple redundant. I think that's pretty slick So me a lot of people may just go for mirroring on it, but definitely cool That's I like the way that they have full ZFS in here select the drive And proceed with the install Are you sure you want to destroy 80 zero? Yep We got to put the password in for the ZFS encryption. I Chose something simple because this is just a virtual machine. I Like this too at the end the installation is now finished before exiting the installer Would you like to open a shell and make any final manual modifications? So if you're doing some real custom stuff They give you an option right here during installer to add your custom things We're gonna go ahead and reboot and go right into pfsense Now because we put a password on this disk The first thing it asks you as soon as you boot up is needs a password to decrypt the disk So go ahead and throw the password in it decrypts and then goes into the normal boot settings that you're used to And here's our regular menu now Here's the new sign-in page and still the default is admin and pfsense and a fresh install And we can then run through the configuration Which pretty much looks the same. I'd nothing be here like the little steps to a nine So that it looks a little better pfsense Viewbox test Now I turned off the block Bogan networks because this is double-naded. This is my little lab that I've got set up So if I blocked certain networks, I wouldn't be able to do certain things on there And we reload and it'll bring us back into the regular pfsense So the menus look pretty much the same here It's not substantially different except for this right here net gate services and support community support only you can Register your support description upgrade your support. So they've made it a little bit easier if you Have a support contract with them to put it all right in here and have that, you know Really one click available on there and you don't have to keep this menu. You can just go I don't want it and then the menus are still right in here Right here's the neck heat server support firewall logs dynamic system information a lot of these seem pretty much the same nothing substantial there Cert manager pretty much looks the same. I like I said, I'll go in-depth once they have the full version release that way I don't have anything that's bad information here, but for the most part the package management All the features really look very much like pfsense except for you know, a little bit of a logo change and The interface seems a little bit faster Having you know me load the same machine with pfsense several times because it's my virtual box It it seems like a little bit snappier the way the interface dropdowns are but until I really get into it I'm not gonna know it's all those it's really hard to tell it was so fast before it's not like this was really a problem but most everything's in the same familiar place and I Can't nothing substantial. So there's no big learning curve to do this I am excited for once they do final release have been playing around with this and walking through all the VPN stuff and everything else and Nothing like said nothing substantially different than previous likes all these menus look the same, but they've added more things To it. So they've added more options more algorithms This was actually Ported in as well in the old versions the use of a TLS key so you can have a predefined TLS key prior to Then you've got see layer two layer two tap mode most this is all the same as it was in the previous versions So nothing and the outside appears dramatically different, but it's mostly under the hood where they changed a lot of things But hopefully I have that full review done as soon as I find out when the release date is for this but I want to give you guys an overview and Show you with the new PF sense 2.4 Just kind of give a quick look at it and the installer the big things are that ZFS support which is awesome so she because if you really are mission critical you're gonna want to put this on a Solid either a raid set or however you want to stack it at minimum a mirror and gives you much more availability Based on that supports the disk encryption pretty nice If that's something important to you that way if anyone ever took your box They wouldn't have your VPN keys and everything that were in the box, which is you know pretty nice feature I don't know how absolutely necessary it is from a security standpoint because if they walk off of your VPN and get the Keys, then they have their VPN and you'll reload a new one and reload your keys at that point So but they do have it now it is on there I do like the way they give you a net gate device ID and a sign there that when when you set up your support contract If you need support from them you have some unique identifiers I know they're working more into the support services on there and Being helpful with that and I'll do a review like I said once it's released So thanks for watching if you like to content here like and subscribe