OPNsense 26.7 – safe to update?
0 problem reports and 0 positive reports found on Reddit (plus 2 other mentions). Out for 94 days and we haven't found any problem reports. Quiet isn't proof — but most bad releases get noticed within a week.
⚠ Read before updating
The official notes for this release include changes that may not be reversible or that remove things you might rely on:
- The privileges “page-system-groupmanager” and “page-system-usermanager-addprivs” were merged into “page-system-groupmanager” and are no longer available separately.
- The static PHP pages for firewall rule management have been moved to the “os-firewall-legacy” plugin which can be manually installed before or after the upgrade.
- Hyper-V guests may be producing panics on certain hosts with more than one virtual processor assigned. Make sure to snapshot beforehand and stay on 26.1.x until the situation is clear.
- Since this is a major OS upgrade and OpenSSL changes from 3.0 to 3.5 third party repositories may interfere with your upgrade experience. Removing offending repositories and plugins may help; or wait for affirmation from the respective repository owners.
- The CPU microcode early loading has been known to be flaky on some setups. A fix is in the FreeBSD 15.1 boot loader code, but can only be reached by reinstall or manually updating the boot code of your system after the upgrade succeeded.
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What's in this release
For over 11 a half years now, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, fast adoption of upstream software updates, modern IPv6 support, as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing. 26.7, nickna…
Source: GitHub releases (opnsense/core)
CVEs fixed
No CVEs mapped to this release.
Community reports
- Mention
Do I have to update bootloader when updating to 26.7? · Reddit · 2026-10-02
Hey, I'd like to update from 26.1 to 26.7. I do not have the microcode package installed (which apparently caused issues for some) but I also read about possibly having to update bootloader (also see this ). FWIW my host shows the same bootloader revisions as the OP's in the lin…
- Mention
Upgrade help · Reddit · 2026-10-02
Hi, I'm still on 26.1.11 and obviously need to upgrade to 26.7 but I'm confused about a few things and need to ensure I'm ready before I proceed. I have backups of config ready. I still have firewall rules in the Rules section and I don't think I migrated them however when I loo…
Reports are found automatically and labelled by an AI model plus keyword rules — they can be wrong. Open the post to judge for yourself.
Other OPNsense versions
- 26.7.7 2026-10-13
- 26.7.6 2026-10-08
- 26.7.5 2026-09-30
- 26.7.4 2026-09-15
- 26.7.3 2026-08-27
- 26.7.2 2026-08-12
- 26.7.1 2026-07-21
- 26.7 2026-07-15
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