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: 5.9.14

strongswan-5.9.14.tar.bz2: 2024-03-19, size 4'869'709 bytes, pgp-signature,
md5: 21ca3fc7c18456405d03b77266ba630a
strongswan-5.9.14.tar.gz: 2024-03-19, size 7'965'697 bytes, pgp-signature,
md5: 9083ec43723d7102950441e8e0f6a217

Changelog Test Results

Pre-Releases

Version: 6.0.0beta6

strongswan-6.0.0beta6.tar.bz2: 2024-03-20, size 6'036'718 bytes, pgp-signature,
md5: 1c1e88a4ef39b4fc927d93ec9cbca2cf

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.