strongSwan

Binary Packages

The simplest way to get strongSwan is to install the binary packages provided by your distribution. Our installation instructions provide links to common distributions and information for building strongSwan from sources.

Distribution Packages Packaging status

Sources

Current Release

Version: 5.9.11

strongswan-5.9.11.tar.bz2: 2023-06-12, size 4'786'552 bytes, pgp-signature,
md5: 673e194cd256af77b46928179f2c81ad
strongswan-5.9.11.tar.gz: 2023-06-12, size 7'836'375 bytes, pgp-signature,
md5: 02e61d43e41d88154c86456232dd4a6c

Changelog Test Results

Pre-Releases

Version: 6.0.0beta4

strongswan-6.0.0beta4.tar.bz2: 2023-08-29, size 5'943'990 bytes, pgp-signature,
md5: 8becc5493270d5e369bcda0056f869bd

Changelog Test Results

Security Patches

Security patches are available for older releases. See our blog for corresponding advisories.

Signature Key

strongSwan releases and security patches are signed with the PGP key with keyid DF42C170B34DBA77.

Download mirrors / Older versions

Older releases can be found on our download mirrors:

download.strongswan.org codelabs GmbH
download2.strongswan.org strongSec GmbH

Try strongSwan via Docker

Docker images are available to easily try out strongSwan. There is one for regular releases and another for pre-releases of strongSwan 6.0 that supports post-quantum cryptography.

NetworkManager Plugin

strongSwan's NetworkManager plugin is available as binary package for several distributions (e.g. network-manager-strongswan on Debian/Ubuntu). For an introduction and how-to see our docs.