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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 198 Gives Major Boost to the Intrusion Prevention System
Coming more than five weeks after IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197, the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 198 release introduces major improvements to the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) with the upgrade to the Suricata 8 series, offering enhanced detection performance and reliability, as well as real-time email reporting.
The IPFire IPS will now send immediate email notifications for any alert above a defined threshold, schedule PDF reports on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis with a complete summary of all alerts, and forward alerts to remote syslog servers for secure external logging and long-term storage.
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www.ipfire.org - IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 198 released
IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 198 is here — and it’s a big one. This release brings a major upgrade to our Intrusion Prevention System with Suricata 8, delivering improved performance, deeper inspection capabilities, and greater reliability. But the real breakthrough comes in how IPFire keeps you informed: real-time email reporting and beautifully designed PDF reports now give you instant insight into network activity, highlighting critical alerts and providing a clear, auditable trail of every event. This all comes on top of the usual package updates and a toolchain update.
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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 198 Released with Suricata 8 and Real-Time IPS Email Reporting
IPFire, a free, open-source Linux-based hardened firewall designed to be deployed as a dedicated firewall/router system for protecting network environments, has issued IPFire 2.29 – Core Update 198.
For many IPFire users, one of the most requested features has finally arrived — detailed, automated IPS reporting. With that said, administrators can now stay informed about security events through three complementary mechanisms: