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| 2014-04-16 |
NEW • Development Release: Smoothwall Express 3.1 RC5 |
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Neal Murphy has announced the availability of the fifth release candidate for Smoothwall Express 3.1, a Linux-based operating system designed for firewalls and routers: "Smoothwall Express 3.1 fifth release candidate available. A note about previous RCs: if you are running RC1, RC2, RC3, RC4 or an earlier RC5 daily build, you must install RC5 ASAP. OpenSSL had a major bug that could leak data to unauthorized parties. Second, IPv6 was not correctly firewalled before RC4; there's a small chance your UI and/or SSH could be accessed from RED via a link-local address; this bug is present in Roadster, too. This release is a refresh of 3.0's foundation and a culmination of five years of effort that began with the Roadster Test Vehicle. The build system has been thoroughly worked over, and the user interface has been freshened with several presentation improvements." See the full release announcement for a complete changelog. Download (MD5): Express-3.1-rc5-x86_64.iso (206MB). |
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| Smoothwall is a family of Internet security products, designed to defend your users and your network from external attacks. Smoothwall Express is based on the Linux operating system. Linux is the ideal choice for security systems; it is well proven, secure, highly configurable and freely available as open source code. Smoothwall includes a hardened subset of the GNU/Linux operating system, so there is no separate OS to install. Designed for ease of use, Smoothwall is configured via a web-based GUI, and requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install or use.
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Smoothwall Express (formerly SmoothWall Express) |
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http://www.smoothwall.org/ |
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http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/ |
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Smoothwall Ltd |
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| 2018-04-22 |
Distribution Release: Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP4 |
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Smoothwall Express, is a specialist Linux distribution for firewalls and routers, featuring a custom web-based configuration interface. The project's origins date back to the year 2000 and it still continues to evolve today - the developers have just announced an update to their 3.1 product line: "The Smoothwall Express team announce the release of Update9/SP4. This update and service pack should address most of the problems you encountered with Update8/SP3. We resolved a number of bugs, updated a number of packages, and re-released all of the Update8 packages. Of particular note, we made a number of improvements in the UI, added packages that will allow you to use a wireless IF for RED (manual only; not yet integrated into the system), and switched from Openswan to Libreswan. We also locked the kernel headers (used for glibc, klibc and a few other packages) to those of 3.4.104 to ensure a consistent Linux API going forward. Update8 switched to 3.16 kernel headers for some packages; this may have been the source of inexplicable problems some people reported after applying Update8." Here is the full release announcement as published on the distribution's user forums. Download (MD5): Express-3.1-SP4-x86_64.iso (241MB), Express-3.1-SP4-i586.iso (233MB). |
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| 2014-10-12 |
Distribution Release: Smoothwall Express 3.1 |
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Following six release candidates spanned over 16 months, today Neal Murphy announced the final release of Smoothwall Express 3.1. This is an updated version of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls. From the release announcement: "The Smoothwall community is pleased to announce the release of the long-awaited Smoothwall Express 3.1 firewall. This release is a refresh of the Smoothwall Express 3.0 foundation and a culmination of five years of effort that began with the Roadster Test Vehicle. The build system has been thoroughly worked over, and the user interface has been freshened with several presentation improvements. The vast majority of the work was done 'under the hood'. Here are just a few of the software upgrades: Linux kernel 3.4.104, glibc 2.18, GCC 4.7.3, Perl 5.14.4, Squid 3.3.13, httpd 2.2.27, iptables 1.4.14, and OpenSwan 2.6.41. Some of these updates are ready to enable new features such as HTTPS proxying in Squid. In addition to these updates, numerous bugs present in 3.0." Download (MD5): Express-3.1-x86_64.iso (204MB). |
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| 2013-12-12 |
Development Release: Smoothwall Express 3.1 RC4 |
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Neal Murphy has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for Smoothwall Express 3.1, a specialist distribution for firewalls and routers: "The Smoothwall community is pleased to announce the fourth release candidate for our long awaited Smoothwall Express 3.1 firewall. RC4 corrects a few problems found in the third release candidate, settles on i586 and x86_64 as the system architectures that will cause the fewest problems when upgrading from 3.0, has a much re-worked QoS feature, and has Marco's URL Filter mod fully integrated. We expect RC4 to be the last release candidate before we release Smoothwall Express 3.1. The vast majority of the work was done 'under the hood'. Here are just a few of the software upgrades: Linux kernel 3.4, glibc 2.18, GCC 4.7.2, Perl 5.14.4, Squid 3.3.5, httpd 2.2.24, iptables 1.4.14 and Openswan 2.6.39." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and a detailed changelog. Download (MD5): Express-3.1-rc4-x86_64.iso (206MB). |
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| 2013-09-18 |
Development Release: Smoothwall Express 3.1 RC3 |
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Neal Murphy has announced the availability of the third release candidate for Smoothwall Express 3.1, an Internet firewall/router distribution designed to run on commodity hardware and to provide an easy-to-use administration interface: "The Smoothwall community is pleased to announce the third release candidate for our long-awaited Smoothwall Express 3.1 firewall. RC3 corrects a number of usability problems found in the second release candidate. This release is a refresh of 3.0's foundation and a culmination of four years of effort that began with the roadster test vehicle. The build system has been thoroughly worked over, and the user interface has been freshened with several presentation improvements. The vast majority of the work was done 'under the hood'. Here are just a few of the software upgrades: Linux kernel 3.4, glibc 2.14.1, GCC 4.7.2, Perl 5.14.4, Squid 3.3.5, httpd 2.2.24, iptables 1.4.14, and Openswan 2.6.38." See the full release announcement for a detailed changelog. Download (MD5): Express-3.1-rc3-x86_64.iso (316MB). |
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| 2013-07-24 |
Development Release: Smoothwall Express 3.1 RC2 |
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Neal Murphy has announced that the second release candidate for Smoothwall Express 3.1, a specialist firewall distribution featuring a security-hardened GNU/Linux operating system and an intuitive web administration interface, is ready for testing: "The Smoothwall community is pleased to announce the second release candidate for our long-awaited Smoothwall Express 3.1 Firewall. RC2 corrects a number of usability problems found in the first release candidate. The build system has been thoroughly worked over, and the user interface has been freshened with several presentation improvements. The vast majority of the work was done 'under the hood'. Here are just a few of the software upgrades: Linux kernel 3.4, glibc 2.14.1, GCC 4.7.2, Perl 5.14.4, Squid 3.3.5, httpd 2.2.24, iptables 1.4.14 and Openswan 2.6.38." Read the full release announcement for information about key new features and improvements in Smoothwall Express 3.1. Download (MD5): Express-3.1-rc2-x86_64.iso (216MB), Express-3.1-rc2-i686.iso (209MB). |
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| 2013-06-18 |
Development Release: Smoothwall Express 3.1 RC1 |
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Neal Murphy has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Smoothwall 3.1, a firewall distribution that includes its own security-hardened GNU/Linux kernel and an easy-to-use web interface: "Today we have released the Smoothwall Express 3.1 release candidate 1 installation CD image for widespread testing and bug squashing. This new CD contains Smoothwall Express 3.1, a refresh of version 3.0. Numerous latent and hard-to-reproduce bugs in 3.0 were eliminated during development. Updated runtime software includes Linux kernel 3.4, glibc 2.14.1, binutils 2.22, iptables 1.4.14 and xtables-addons 1.45, OpenSwan 2.6.38, Snort 2.9.4.6 and Squid 3.1.23. The user interface has been freshened with the new Smoothwall logo and a number of presentation improvements. There are two new features: Plug-n-Play Backup, and automatic translations for non-English-speaking users." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download (MD5): Express-3.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (216MB), Express-3.1-rc1-i686.iso (209MB). |
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| 2007-08-22 |
Distribution Release: SmoothWall Express 3.0 |
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SmoothWall Express 3.0, a free firewall distribution that includes its own security-hardened GNU/Linux operating system and an easy-to-use web interface, has been released: "Express 3.0 is our latest version of the long running and successful SmoothWall Express firewall. Headline new features relative to 2.0: supports a 4th network card for Wireless Access Points; 64-bit support; based upon Linux 2.6 kernel; new realtime traffic graph shows traffic bandwidth usage over time (AJAX); per-IP address traffic statistics collection in all traffic stats pages; Instant Messenger proxy with logging and filtering abilities; SATA and SCSI support; streamlined installer and setup; outbound filtering; new update mechanism which can download and install all pending updates with a single click...." Read the comprehensive release notes for full details. Download (MD5): smoothwall-express-3.0-i386.iso (68.9MB), smoothwall-express-3.0-x86_64.iso (70.3MB).
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| 2007-08-07 |
Development Release: SmoothWall Express 3.0 RC1 |
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The first release candidate of SmoothWall Express 3.0 is ready for testing: "Express 3.0 is our latest version of the long running and successful SmoothWall Express firewall. This is a release candidate release, code name 'Sammy'. This means that this build will become the final version of SmoothWall Express 3.0, assuming no problems are found. New features and fixes relative to the previous Express 3.0 beta, Degu: final changes to the theme graphics to incorporate the polar bear silhouette, including the boot screen; added missing page descriptions; added support for empty hostnames in Dynamic DNS pages; MySmoothWall integration; build system now uses hosts resolv.conf instead of makefile variables; runtime kernel now has DMA support for all supported IDE chipsets...." Read the comprehensive release notes for further details. Download (MD5): smoothwall-express-3.0-sammy-i386.iso (68.5MB), smoothwall-express-3.0-sammy-x86_64.iso (70.0MB).
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