Posts in 2018

Finally, the next release of IPFire is available: IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 126 This update comes with a new kernel and security enhancements. This change log is rather short, but the changes are very important.

It is the end of another year and I would like to take this opportunity to simply say thank you. It has been an eventful year and we have come a long way.

The next update is available for testing! This update comes with a new kernel and security enhancements and will hopefully be released as the last maintenance update for this year. This change log is rather short, but the changes are very important.

I have recently talked about how to contribute to the project. As an Open Source project, we always appeal to individuals and ask them for their contributions to make IPFire better - whether that is code or donations.

When it is getting cold and the long days over summer are over, that is usually the time when developers wake up and get back to work again. Winter is always a good time for software development.

Finally, the next release of IPFire is available: IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 125 This update comes with various security and bug fixes as well as cleanups and some new features.

The IPFire Project is entirely independent and funded by donations which is quite a tough thing to do these days. It is hard to get donations when you don't have a budget for advertising and encourage people to do more. Unfortunately, donations are at a record low.

The next IPFire update is ready for testing! It comes with a lot of big fixes and cleanups as well as a couple of new features.

It has actually been eleven months ago, when I wrote about the chaotic story called Meltdown and Spectre. It was very clear that those were not to be the only CPU vulnerabilities of that kind and here we are now, almost a year later, and that speculation has become reality.

Welcome to the new look of the IPFire website. The new look of the IPFire project!

Dear IPFire Community,

this is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 124. It brings new features and immensely improves security and performance of the whole system.

Dear IPFire Community,

finally, our latest Core Update is available for testing. It is an update full of new features and immensely improves security and performance of the whole system.

This is the release announcement for IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 123 - a house-keeping release with a large number of fixes and some fixes for security vulnerabilities.

ICANN will roll over the DNSSEC key signing key of the DNS root zone. All resolvers need to be updated so that DNS resolution will work after October 11, 2018 or no DNS entries can be resolved any more.

Finally, the next major version of IPFire is ready for testing. IPFire 2.2 rebases the distribution on the long-term supported Linux kernel 4.14 and many more improvements and bug fixes have found their way into the distribution.

We provide a number of different images to install IPFire on a variety of systems. That can be virtual, a small embedded system or a plain rack server that is being installed from an USB key or CD. IPFire is very very versatile and we are proud to have it running on so many different platforms.

This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 120. We are excited that it is package with a large number of features that will increase security of the entire system, increase performance of some cryptographic operations as well as fixing a number of smaller bugs.

IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 120 is available for testing and we are excited that it is packet with a large number of features! They will increase security of the entire system, increase performance of some cryptographic operations as well as fixing a number of smaller bugs.

This is the release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 119. It updates the toolchain of the distribution and fixes a number of smaller bug and security issues. Therefore this update is another one of a series of general housekeeping updates to make IPFire better, faster and of course more secure!

Hello Community,

it is time for another Core Update that updates the toolchain of the distribution as well as a number of smaller bug and security fixes. Therefore this update is another one of a series of general housekeeping updates to make IPFire better, faster and of course more secure!

Hello community,

this is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 118. It comes with a number of security and bug fixes as well as some new features. Please note the that we are dropping support for some add-ons.

Hello Community,

the next Core Update 118 is almost there. We have no major new bugs left any more and it is good to go. But before our release engineering team pulls the trigger and is releasing this for everyone of you, we would like to make you aware again that a number of add-on packages has been discontinued and will automatically be uninstalled when Core Update 118 is installed. Those are:

Hello community,

the next Core Update for IPFire is now ready for testing and will be released soon. Please support is with that to provide you with a number of security and bug fixes as well as some new features.

I am sure that it has been unmissable: "Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws":https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-processor-has-unfixable-security-flaws/. The story has now been boiling for weeks and has finally made the main news one week ago.

Happy New Year,

the first Core Update is ready to be released today and it comes withh a huge number of various bug and security fixes.