IPFire Linux Firewall Gets Experimental Btrfs Support, Intel RFDS Mitigations
The IPFire 2.29 Core Update 186 release introduces an updated kernel based on Linux 6.6.30 LTS, which includes mitigations for the latest Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability a.k.a. CVE-2023-28746 affecting Intel processors, CPU frequency scaling support for Raspberry Pi, and improved CPU graph support for processors when some virtual cores are offline.
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 186 also introduces Spamhaus EDROP support into DROP as a replacement for Alienvault, Linux Landlock support in the Suricata open-source network analysis and threat detection software to protect your IPFire installations against any unauthorized file system access from exploits, as well as experimental support for the Btrfs file system.
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www.ipfire.org - IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 186 released
Finally it is time for another release of IPFire! IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 186. Packaged with a refreshed kernel, experimental support for Btrfs, as well as various security & bug fixes.
But before we start talking about the changes in detail, we would like to take a moment and ask for your support. We put a lot of effort into building and testing this update and could not do any of this without your donation. Please, donate to the project helping us to put more resources to bring you more and better updates. It is very much appreciated by all of us here!