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IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 164 is available for testing

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 20th of February 2022 07:16:24 PM Filed under
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Security

It is time to test another release for IPFire: IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 164. It comes with a vastly improved firewall engine, a new kernel and various security and bug fixes. Please help us testing this release and if you would like to support us, please donate.

This update brings a new kernel for IPFire which is based on Linux 5.15. It comes with a large number of bug fixes, security fixes, and hardware support improvements. It brings improved performance for cryptographic operations on aarch64 and enables virtualisation support on this architecture, too.

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Introducing elementary network protection: Dropping all traffic

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 23rd of February 2022 11:21:32 PM.
  • blog.ipfire.org - Introducing elementary network protection: Dropping all traffic from and to hostile networks by default

    Starting with upcoming Core Update 164, the firewall options page will feature a new checkbox: Drop packets from and to hostile networks. For basic protection of our users and their networks, it will be enabled by default on new installations, staying disabled on existing IPFire systems (but we recommend to turn it on there as well).

    Improving network protection for the masses

    Although we always preach IPFire is not meant to be installed and then forgotten, we believe this is what happens to a decent amount of installations out there: They are set up once, perhaps being configured in a basic manner, and do not receive any attention afterwards. Resources are scarce, so why bother touching a running system?

    Of course, we neither endorse such a modus operandi, nor can we shed the load from our users to define and enforce a proper security policy (including firewall rules and IPS settings, just to name a few ingredients) on their networks.

    On the other hand, there are some shady areas of the internet, and virtually everyone in the security community knows about them. A subset of them is so dangerous that you don't even want to process any IP connection from or to them, no matter what.

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