The distribution for creating routers and inter-sections, IPFire 2.29 Core 186, has been released. IPFire is known for its simple installation process and intuitive Web-interface that includes visual graphs. The size of the installation ISO-image is 421 MB (x86_64, aarch64).
IPFire is a modular system that offers basic packet filtration and traffic control functions along with additional features such as the Suricata system for intrusion prevention, file server creation (Samba, FTP, NFS), postal server setup (Cyrus-IMAPD, POSTFIX, SpamASSASSIN, ClamAV, OpenMailAdmin), print server configuration (CUPS), VOIP gateways using Asterisk and TeamSpeak, wireless access point setup, and streaming audio/video server organization (MPFire, Videolan, ICECAST, GNUMP3D, VDR). Additions to IPFire can be installed using the Pakfire package manager.
In this new release, the following features have been included:
- Experimental support for the BTRFS file system.
- Updated Linux kernel to version 6.6.32.
- Implemented support for CPU frequency changes on the Raspberry Pi board depending on the load to reduce energy consumption or increase productivity.
- Merged data from the SPAMHAUS EDROP blocking list with the list of DROP to enhance security measures.
- Removed ALENVAULT lock due to discontinued support.
- Added the LANDLOCK insulation mechanism in the Suricata attack detection system to block FS access in case of vulnerability exploitation.
- Improved Unbound DNS server processing to eliminate unnecessary reboots during DHCP address handling.
- Updated versions of various software components including Apache2 2.4.59, Bind 9.16.49, KMOD 32, LIBHTP 0.5.48, OpenSSL 3.2.2, SQLite 3.45.3, Squid 6.9, Strongswan 5.9.14, and Suricata 7.0.5.
- Removed the ICinga monitoring system package due to outdated branch support discontinuation.
- Eliminated the sslh utility package due to performance issues.
- Added new versions of Bacula 13.0.4, DNSDist 1.9.3, Lynis 3.1.1, Mympd 14.1.2, and Tor 0.4.8.11.