What's new

Please see the changelog for a full list of changes, and the release blog for more information.

Important changes

Please familiarise yourself with those changes before updating from an earlier release.

• The RADIUS function radius_authen() was removed in favour for native implementation in our script library.
• The TACACS+ functions tacplus_authen() and tacplus_author() have been removed because of limited usage.
• The configuration setting system_disk_cache for changing FreeBSD's disk (ATA) write cache option has been removed.

Deprecation warnings

The following deprecation warnings will appear in preparation for future changes:

• The is_number() function will stop returning true on boolean types, and produce a warning if used for that. The 4.8 release introduces native boolean types, which can be initiated using for example true/false or JSON decode.
• The mail() function will stop supporting the rawbody, serverid and transportid options. Also, the fifth argument specifying the transport will be required.