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| 2012-09-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 62 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 62, a specialist distribution of Linux for firewalls: "Today, we are releasing the 62nd Core update for IPFire 2.11. This update fixes some security problems and also adds some new functionality. We recommend that you update your IPFire installations as soon as possible if you are using the outgoing firewall in mode Fixed: outgoing firewall permits hosts on BLUE to access the Internet. In earlier releases, it was possible for hosts on the BLUE network to access resources on the Internet which are allowed by the outgoing firewall although no permission has been granted to the host (blue access). This is a moderate risk." Read the rest of the release announcement for additional information. Download for the i586 or ARM architectures: ipfire-2.11.i586-full-core62.iso (77.6MB, torrent), ipfire-2.11.2gb-ext2.armv5tel-full-core62.img.gz (126MB, torrent).
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| About IPFire
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| IPFire is a Linux distribution that focusses on easy setup, good handling and high level of security. It is operated via an intuitive web-based interface which offers many configuration options for beginning and experienced system administrators. IPFire is maintained by developers who are concerned about security and who update the product regularly to keep it secure. IPFire ships with a custom package manager called Pakfire and the system can be expanded with various add-ons.
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| 2013-05-22 |
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.13 Core 68 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.13 Core 68, a minor bug-fix update of the specialist distribution for firewalls and routers: "Today the IPFire development team released the 68th Core update for IPFire 2. This update brings various bug fixes and minor enhancements. The strongSwan team released version 5.0.4 which fixes an authentication bypass for certificates that use Elliptic Curves. As we don't use them in IPFire by default, this is not too serious an issue, but we still updated the strongSwan package. The update also contains some changes that fix unstable IPsec connections, a minority of users was experiencing. Since Core Update 65, disabling OpenVPN roadwarrior connections had no effect, so that users could still connect. This has also been fixed with this release. The web user interface comes with a new status bar which now has a cleaner design and provides more information." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (SHA1): ipfire-2.13.i586-full-core68.iso (99.4MB), ipfire-2.13.1gb-ext4.armv5tel-full-core68.img.gz (163MB). |
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| 2013-03-16 |
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.13 Core 67 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.13 Core 67, an updated version of the hardened Linux-based appliance distribution designed for use as a firewall: "Today, the IPFire development team released the 67th core update for IPFire 2. This update comes within the usual 4-week schedule and brings various bug fixes. New wireless drivers. With IPFire 2.13 came a new kernel based on Linux 3.2. The wireless drivers were taken from Linux kernel 3.6 and subsequently, some users reported that their hardware did not work as well as it had previously. With this core update, the wireless drivers have been grabbed from Linux kernel 3.8, where numerous problems have been fixed and also new hardware support has been added. Please note that a reboot is required to make use of the new drivers. The driver for ASIX USB network adapters has also been updated to version 4.5." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: ipfire-2.13.i586-full-core67.iso (93.4MB, SHA1). |
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| 2013-02-19 |
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.13 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.13, a major new update of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls: "Today is the day on which we officially release IPFire 2.13. We are very proud to have a brand-new milestone release with a lot of exciting, new features. The list of changes, enhancements, and fixes is endless, but we would like you to pay special attention to the following features which we're the most excited about. The most important components of the base system have been updated to include a brand-new kernel based on the Linux 3.2 release. With that, IPFire now supports more hardware than ever before and many of the hardware problems from the past should be gone. The most basic system libraries have been replaced as well, giving us great performance and fixing some general security issues." Here is the full release announcement. Download: ipfire-2.13.i586-full-core66.iso (93.4MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-12-19 |
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 65 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 65, the latest update of the project's specialist firewall distribution: "Today, the last core update for IPFire 2.11 in this year has been released. It is the 65th of the IPFire 2 series and comes with some new features and bug fixes. Alexander Marx developed a graphical interfaces with help of which one can configure OpenVPN roadwarrior clients individually. It is possible to add routes, different DNS servers, static IP addresses to individual roadwarrior clients. One may also add networks from which IP addresses may be assigned to clients. Those subnets and static IP addresses can be used to create firewall rules and permit clients only to access certain parts of a network. More work in this area will be released in the future." More information on new features can be found in the release announcement. Download: ipfire-2.11.i586-full-core65.iso (77.9MB, torrent), ipfire-2.11.2gb-ext2.armv5tel-full-core65.img.gz (126MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-11-21 |
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 64 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 64, a specialist firewall distribution, with updated intrusion detection software and fixed MAC rules: "Today, we are releasing the 64th Core Update for IPFire 2.11. The Intrusion Detection program Snort has been updated to version 2.9.3.1, the corresponding daq library to version 1.1.1. This enables Snort to work with the latest VRT rule set. Outgoing firewall - the broken MAC rules have been fixed. It was impossible to use the MAC rules to allow hosts to access the Internet. A bigger rewrite of the code fixes this problem and makes the outgoing firewall a bit more performing. Minor bugs and feature enhancements: update accelerator - the path to the delete icon has been fixed; pakfire can now use the XZ compression." See the release announcement for more details and a note on the upcoming IPFire 2.13. Download: ipfire-2.11.i586-full-core64.iso (77.8MB, torrent), ipfire-2.11.2gb-ext2.armv5tel-full-core64.img.gz (126MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-10-19 |
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 63 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 63, a bug-fix version of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls: "Today, we are releasing the 63rd Core update for IPFire 2.11. This update fixes some minor problems and fixes two security issues in Apache. Software updates: Apache 2.2.23 - because of CVE-2012-2687 aka CVE-2008-0455 and CVE-2012-0883; DHCP 4.2.2 - because the older version got confused with VLANs; fireinfo 2.1.6 - ignore some more invalid ID strings. Other bug fixes: the long awaited OpenVPN fragment/mssfix bug has been fixed and the network VLANs initscript is not too noisy any more. Despite that, some invalid HTML output was generated by the index.cgi script." Here is the brief release announcement. Download for the i586 or ARM architectures: ipfire-2.11.i586-full-core63.iso (77.9MB, torrent), ipfire-2.11.2gb-ext2.armv5tel-full-core63.img.gz (126MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-08-03 |
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 61 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 61, a specialist Linux distribution for firewalls: "The IPFire development team has just released the 61st core update for IPFire 2.11. This update brings a lot of exciting changes, new features and several bug fixes. Since IPFire 2.11, OpenVPN net2net (N2N) or site2site (S2S) connections are supported. Here are some of the exciting new features: static routes may be defined for OpenVPN clients; connections can now be renamed when importing them; OpenVPN N2N connections are displayed with their status on the index page; optional client-config-dir (CCD) is supported which enables the option to add configuration parameters for a single client connection. On the connections page, you can now see how much traffic has been transfered over a single connection." The release announcement. Download: ipfire-2.11.i586-full-core61.iso (76.8MB, torrent).
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| 2012-05-13 |
Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 58 |
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Arne Fitzenreiter has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 58, an updated version of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls: "It is time for a maintenance update of the IPFire series 2 which is called Core Update 58. This update comes with cryptodev, a bunch of security fixes and minor bug fixes. Cryptodev has been ported from BSD and provides the kernel crypto system to the userspace. The advantages we gain from that is much faster hashing, encryption and decryption of data. On a normal system, the performance will double, on systems that come with crypto processors like VIA Padlock or Marvell CESA, the speed will be significantly higher and the CPU load will be much lower. The update is shipping fixes for security issues in OpenSSL 0.9.8u and libpng 1.2.46." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (SHA1): ipfire-2.11.i586-full-core58.iso (76.6MB, torrent).
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