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-<p>Dearest user,</p>
-<p>This is the EOL announcement for the 16.1 series of OPNsense.  As such it
-will not receive any more updates, but the upgrade to the new 16.7 series is
-seamless, except for the following points:</p>
-<p><ul><li>The FreeBSD version changes from 10.2 to 10.3, mainly for driver
-updates and general sanity.  Due to kernel interface changes <strong>plugins
-or custom-built kernel modules may stop working</strong>.  Reinstalling the
-offending packages from the firmware pages or recompiling custom additions
-against the <em>stable/16.7</em> source branch will resolve this
-problem.</li>
-<li>Legacy VPN Servers for L2TP, PPPoE, and PPTP moved to plugins and need
-to be installed in order to still make use of them.  Your configurations
-will persist, but may have to be adapted to adhere to the requirements of
-the MPD5 server daemon.  The most important change is that your listening
-address needs to be a known address, preferably using a Virtual IP from
-the firewall settings.</li>
-<li>The PPTP server redirection mode has been removed.  It can be emulated
-by the two following NAT port forward rules: <em>From incoming WAN interface,
-redirect all traffic to PPTP server IP target for protocol GRE.  From
-incoming WAN interface redirect all traffic to PPTP server IP target for
-protocol TCP, port 1723.</em>  Note that due to the design of GRE, only one
-server can be reached by incoming clients at any given time.</li>
-<li>The <em>Maximum MSS</em> option for VPN Networks moved to <em>Firewall:
-Settings: Normalization</em>, which can now be specified per interface and
-network.</li>
-<li>The <em>Disable firewall scrub</em> option was removed.  All scrubbing
-(including MSS clamping) can now be disabled using the <em>Disable interface
-scrub</em> option under <em>Firewall: Settings: Normalization</em>
-<li>The <em>NAT+proxy</em> reflection option was removed and will
-automatically switch to the more flexible firewall-based NAT.</li>
-<li>Due to lack of support in FreeBSD itself, the floating rules actions
-can no longer use <em>match</em>.  The custom kernel patch that previously
-enabled selection of this behaviour has been removed.</li>
-<li>The <em>Disable Negate rule on policy routing rules</em> option is no
-longer available as automatic VPN skip rules for policy-based routing have
-been removed.  If you want to skip your VPN, please add an explicit rule.</li>
-<li>The <em>IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling</em> option was removed.  You can use
-a regular NAT rule to achieve the same result.</li></ul></p>
-<p>Please heed these points carefully before upgrading.  Backup your configs,
-preview the new version via the live CD or in a virtual machine.  Create
-snapshots.  If all else fails, report back
-<a href="https://forum.opnsense.org/" target="_blank">in the forums</a> for
-assistance.  You don't have to do this on your own.  :)</p>
-<p><em>Crafty Coyote</em>, you've served us well.</p>
-<p>See you on the other side,<br>Your OPNsense team</p>