Use Font Awesome icons from your own host/server. Update the latest releases from GitHub.
Choose the major version and install the latest minor version. For example: Choose major version 6, and install the latest of 6.x.xx. 
Currently supported for version 4, 5, 6, 7.
This plugin did not use CDN (content delivery network). If you want to use CDN, please use official Font Awesome plugin instead.
You can dequeue duplicated Font Awesome handles from other plugins or themes to prevent conflict.
You can disable enqueue from this plugin in case you would like to do it manually. 
To get asset files for manually enqueue, use this code.
<pre>
if (function_exists('rdfontawesome_get_enqueue_files')) {
 $result = rdfontawesome_get_enqueue_files();
 if (isset($result['css']) && is_array($result['css'])) {
 $faVersion = ($result['faVersion'] ?? false);
 foreach ($result['css'] as $css) {
 wp_enqueue_style('myplugin_fontawesome', $css, [], $faVersion);
 }
 unset($css, $faVersion);
 }
}
</pre>
To get URL base of the Font Awesome assets for use another files, use this code.
<pre>
if (function_exists('rdfontawesome_get_public_url_base')) {
 echo rdfontawesome_get_public_url_base();
}
</pre>
Font Awesome files are belong to https://fontawesome.com

Rundiz Font Awesome

Use Font Awesome from your host and update from GitHub.

GhozyLab

This plugin will help you to display vector icon font into post, page or widget easily. There are available more than 2.5k icons that you can choose. You can customize the look like changing color, size, align etc.
<h4>Available Icon Library</h4>
<ul>
<li>Font Awesome ( fontawesome ) : Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS.</li>
<li>Fontello : This library lets you combine icon webfonts for your own web project.</li>
<li>IcoMoon : IcoMoon is striving to build and provide the best iconography and icon management tool for perfectionists. IcoMoon icon library features only the very best icon sets out there.</li>
<li>Open Iconic : Open Iconic is the open source sibling of Iconic. It is a hyper-legible collection of 223 icons with a tiny footprint—ready to use with Bootstrap.</li>
<li>WordPress Dashicons : Dashicons is the official icon font of the WordPress admin as of 3.8.</li>
<li>Google Material Fonts : Material icons are beautifully crafted, delightful, and easy to use in your web.</li>
<li>JustVector Social Icons : These 150 monochrome social icons are designed with simplicity in mind. Provided in vector format, they are fully editable and scale to any size smoothly.</li>
<li>Payment Fonts : PaymentFont was originally made for WooCommerce Payment Methods Plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce.</li>
</ul>
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The following are other recommended plugins by the author:
<ul>
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</ul>

Web Icons

Web Icons plugin gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized. More than 2.5k icons available.

Rundiz Font Awesome vs Web Icons