Posts in 2017

Hello all,

it is time again for testing the next Core Update with number 117 which comes with a huge number of various bug and security fixes. This will also most-likely be the last Core Update in this year.

We host our own infrastructure here and use multiple mirror servers to cope with the amount of downloads and also to provide good redundancy. After all it is not too bad to host this project from the bandwidth's perspective since most people update anyway and for our new users, the OS image is not too large. It only has about ~150-200MB depending on the image you are downloading.

Since we have never really been to good to put news about this project into the press, we are now starting to implement a few things that we are becoming better at this. It is a pitty to me that we are having such a nice project here but too few people know about it.

Just days after releasing Core Update 115 with our brand new Captive Portal, we are releasing the next update for IPFire which is necessary because some security vulneratbilities have been found in some packages that IPFire uses. Those are @openssl@ and @wget@, but this update also brings some smaller bug fixes.

Just days after releasing Core Update 115 with our brand new Captive Portal, we already have the next one in the testing tree which brings some fixes for security vulnerabilities in @openssl@ and @wget@ as well as some bug fixes.

Hello Community,

finally, we are releasing the long-awaited IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 115 which brings the shiny new Captive Portal and various security and performance improvements as well as fixing security vulnerabilities.

p(lead). Finally, we have made the move to host all of our services over TLS only. That means that any website or file that is being downloaded, any email that is being sent or received is being encrypted. Everything is secure now! Well... not really. This is a brief article about TLS considerations and some real-world issues with it.

Hello Community,

finally, we are inviting everyone to help us testing IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 115. It contains the long-awaited Captive Portal and brings various security and performance improvements as well as fixing security vulnerabilities.

Hello Community,

a team of researchers has discovered a number of vulnerabilities in WPA2 which are essentially exploitable on any device that has WiFi. All the details are over "here":https://www.krackattacks.com/. Congratulations! Excellent work!

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 – Core Update 114. It brings some changes under the hood and modernises the base system. On top of that, minor issues are being fixed and some packages have been updated.

The latest Core Update brings some changes under the hood and modernises the base system. On top of that, minor issues are being fixed and some packages have been updated.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 – Core Update 113. The change log is rather short, but comes with a big new feature:

Hello Community!

Core Update 113 is finally ready for testing. The changelog is rather short, but comes with a big new feature:

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 112. Unfortunately it is a little bit behind schedule.

Hello Community,

the next Core Update is ready for testing. Unfortunately it is a little bit behind schedule since we had some last-minute changes which I have not been able to sort out in time because of loads of travelling. But now, everything is finally up to our standards and should be ready for shipment, but before we do that, we will of course have a time for our experienced testers to confirm that we did not introduce any other regressions.

This is the official release announcement of IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 111. It comes with various packages from all areas and some new features.

The first build of core111 has a gzip related bug so gunzip and zcat are not working. (This affects also the logviewer which cannot display older/compressed logs)

For the start of the second half of the year, we have a brand new Core Update available for everyone who wants to help testing. It comes with various packages from all areas and some new features.

samba 3.6.25-65 has uploaded to testing trees. Please test and report to IPFire Mailinglist.

Yesterday, I "read":https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-and-aes-ni.html that pfSense won't support systems that do not have AES-NI from version 2.5 onwards any more. They state, that systems with AES-NI perform better and that this is available in many Intel processors from 2008 and AMD processors from 2010.

Although this is not really rocket science, I find this feature exciting. VPNs that switch on when you need them and switch off when they are idle. It is as simple as that. The IPsec stack inside IPFire is under constant development and improvement. With almost every single update, we introduced some minor new feature or added ciphers, integrity algorithms or simply just fixed bugs.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 110. This updates comes with some exciting new features as well as updates of many system packages and many bug and security fixes.

Hello Community,

it is once again time to give the next Core Update a good test before it is rolled out to everyone. We included some exciting features in this one as well as updates of many system packages and many bug and security fixes.

As the first update of the year, we have bundled a number of package updates, security and bug fixes for you: IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 109

The next Core Update with number 109 has been released for testing. It comes with a number of package updates which include security fixes and bug fixes all across the place.