Posts in 2023

The last Core Update of the year, IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 182, is available for testing. Please help us to make it yet another successful release, so that we can all update and enjoy a quiet holiday time.

Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we are releasing the latest update for IPFire as our special Black Friday gift for you. It comes with a large number of security updates in OpenSSL, Suricata, Apache & Samba as well as a number of kernel fixes.

It is time to test the latest version of IPFire: It comes with a large number of security updates in OpenSSL, Suricata, Apache & Samba as well as a number of kernel fixes.

It is time for another update for your most favourite firewall: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 180 is out - coming with an updated toolchain, a large number of package updates, deprecation for ReiserFS as well as a number of bug and security fixes.

With the release of IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 179, we have made the next update available for testing: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 180 comes with an updated toolchain, a large number of package updates and deprecates ReiserFS.

It is time to upgrade your systems to IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 179. It will bring you Indirect Brand Tracking in user space in order to better mitigate any injected code, a completely rewritten ExtraHD and a large number of package updates & the usual bunch of bug fixes.

Just after releasing Core Update 178 which was added into our release cycle to address Intel's and AMD's latest CPU vulnerabilities, we are back on track with our regular schedule. This release features Indirect Branch Tracking for user space, a completely rewritten ExtraHD amongst a large number of package updates and the usual bunch of bug fixes.

This is the release announcement for IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 178 which is a release that addresses the latest vulnerabilities in Intel and AMD processors called Downfall, Inception and Phantom as well as a bug in Hyper-V which caused IPFire to freeze at boot.

The next Core Update is available for testing: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 178 which includes kernel and microcode fixes to mitigate vulnerabilities in Intel and AMD processors.

Geofeeds are new feature described in RFC 8805 which allows to self-publish Geo location information in a machine readable format for people who own their own IP address space on the Internet. From now, we are parsing this data for IPFire Location to further improve the accuracy of our database - especially for large distributed companies like cloud providers.

It is time for another release of IPFire: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 177. A brand-new update which brings enhanced hardening for the IPFire OS on modern processors, a large number of package updates and fixes various security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, AMD processors, OpenSSH and more.

The next update for IPFire is available for testing! It contains more hardening features for modern processors and a large number of security fixes in third-party packages.

We are pleased to announce the release of IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 176. It features a large amount of package updates which include a security fixed and updated microcode for Intel processors as well as a couple of bug fixes.

The next update, IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 176, is available for testing. It features a toolchain and package updates (among the security-relevant of them are Intel microcodes), brings the latest batch of bug fixes.

IPFire Location is a geo location database which will tell you in which country a host on the Internet is located. It will also tell you in which Autonomous System (AS) this host is. In IPFire we use this information to make better decisions about which connections to block and we use it to collect metrics, etc.

Finally, the next update, IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 175, has been released! It updates OpenSSL to the 3.1 branch, features a kernel update as well as a large number of package updates and a variety of bug fixes.

The forthcoming update, IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 175, is available for testing! Most noteworthy, it updates OpenSSL to the 3.1.0 branch, features a kernel update as well as other package updates and a variety of bug fixes are also included in this update.

The next Core Update has been released: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 174. It is a traditional spring clean release which updates major parts of the core system and comes with a large number of bug fixes throughout.

The next Core Update is ready for testing: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 174. It is a traditional spring clean release which updates major parts of the core system and comes with a large number of bug fixes throughout.

Are you using IPFire through a wireless connection? Do you need more bandwidth and lower latency no matter where you are? Then, we have you covered with support for 5G interfaces which also helps making 4G connections faster!

The first Core Update in 2023 has been released: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 173. It introduces support for 4G and 5G modems that use the QMI interface, features a kernel fresh from the latest 6.1 stable series, as well as the usual plethora of package updates, security improvements and bug fixes.

The first Core Update in 2023 is ready for testing: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 173. It introduces support for Qualcomm's MSM Interface (QMI), features a kernel fresh from the latest 6.1 stable series, as well as the usual plethora of package updates, security improvements and bug fixes.