Sensei 1.1 released providing support for low-end devices

We are super happy to keep our promise. With Sensei 1.1, released officially as of today, you are able to run Sensei on low-end devices with limited horsepower. Now you can enjoy next generation features on your favorite device 😉 Read on the see the list of all new features that are shipping with 1.1…

Better low-end device support

Support for low-end devices with weak CPUs. Try Sensei on your Deciso A10 / APU devices. Yes! with reporting 🙂
Minimum RAM requirement lowered to 2GB
See updated Hardware Requirements

Better Security

New security features for the Premium Edition:

Protection against malware, virus, phishing attacks which have recently came into existence, mostly within zero to one week timeframe.
Blocking sites which utilize Dynamic DNS services. Although Dynamic DNS itself isn’t malicious, it could be a sign of other problems, abuses or threats to your network’s security.
Blocking Newly registered domains which are an effective tool for threat actors. From a security perspective, there are very few reasons someone would need to visit a domain that has just come online; likely, they were sent there via a URL from a malicious campaign.
Blocking Newly Recovered sites. Like newly registered sites, sites which have undergone a long period silence and become recently up might be also be used by the attackers. Sites which has a good reputation history are especially used by the cyber criminals to evade reputation-based security mechanisms.
Blocking Dead Sites, which are not actively maintained. These sites are also a good candidate for cyber criminals for launching their attacks.

More Interface Support

lagg(4) and bridge(4) interface members can be protected now

New Cloud Servers Infrastructure goes live

New less-latency cloud servers for US-West, US-East, Asia and Australia regions
New web category/threat intelligence database
Improved/faster cloud query mechanism
Better availability
Status screen now shows uptime in a prettier format

Reporting

Reporting Performance Improvements (Reports load faster (a lot faster :))
Long-awaited OPNsense Dashboard Widget

Updating:

Sensei automatically gets updated to the recent release when you do a OPNsense update.

If you want to update Sensei only, you can do that. Just navigate to Sensei -> Status page. Click on “Check for Updates” for the engine. You’ll be guided for the rest.