pfSense CE: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for pfSense CE from Netgate

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-14

What is pfSense CE?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementpfSense CE (Community Edition) is an open-source firewall and routing platform based on FreeBSD, developed and maintained by the company Netgate.It provides enterprise-grade features such as VPN, intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS), traffic shaping, and advanced networking capabilities at no licensing cost.pfSense CE is widely used by individuals and organizations as a flexible and highly customizable alternative to commercial firewall appliances.
 

The entire lifecycle of pfSense CE

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of pfSense CE. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
pfSense CE (Netgate) release, version and end-of-life information
XpfSense CE (Netgate) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product pfSense CE (Netgate)
 

Facts and figures about pfSense CE

Product
pfSense CE
Vendor
Netgate
Latest version
2.8.1
Number of releases
10
Number of versions
52
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
51
Licence
Apache License 2.0
 
 

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