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IPFire is a linux-distribution that focusses on easy setup, good handling and a high niveau of security.
It is operable via an intuitive webinterface, which offers a lot of playground for beginners and even experienced administrators. IPFire is maintained by experienced developers, who are really concerned about security and regulary updates to keep it secure.

IPFire ships with a custom built paket-manager called Pakfire, so the system can be expanded with various addons.

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Core Update 36

Today we are going to release Core 36. It implicates following changes:

  • Update of openssh to 5.3p1
  • Update of openssl to 0.9.8l
  • Change cyrus-sasl from package to common
  • Webinterface:
    • Fixed some typos (thx to lavaguy)
    • Add a delay to pakfire.cgi to prevent pakfire run's twice.
  • IPTV:
    • Add IPTV chains for IGMPPROXY to firewall.
  • Addon:
    • Update of nmap to 5.20
    • Update of rsync to 3.0.7

Because of the security updates of ssh and ssl, we recommend all users to install this core update!

Core Update 35

Today we are going to release Core 35. It implicates following changes:

  • Applied the latest security patches to squidGuard to prevent buffer overflows and from going into emergency mode when overlong URLs are encountered
  • Add missing modules for intersil/prism (disabled)
  • Disabled connscheduler on general (*)
  • Add zerofree to cleanup flash and xenimages (*)
  • Fix for countrycode list (thx to m.a.d)
  • Webinterface:
    • Fix the link to external Snort SID page
  • Outgoing Firewall:
    • Parse pre Core34 rules correct and enabled change logging in mode 1
    • Added GRE and ESP protocol to outgoing firewall
  • Xen:
    • Fix klogd fails on xen-kernel
    • Disabled start of console initscript on xen-image (*)
    • Change xen-image boot fstype to ext2 (*)

(*) These changes have only effect on new installations of IPFire.

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Current version:
IPFire 2.5 - Core 36

Current unstable:
IPFire 3.0 alpha 1

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