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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202 Linux Firewall Distro Released with OpenVPN 2.7
Coming almost two months after IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201, the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202 is here to introduce support for OpenVPN 2.7, which brings Data Channel Offloading (DCO) support to massively upgrade throughput for your OpenVPN tunnels, and security patches for the latest Copy Fail and Dirty Frag vulnerabilities.
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202 improves the IPFire DNS Proxy with out-of-the-box outbound access without the need to add additional firewall rules, proper support for adding multiple ports in a comma-separated list to the firewall, and the ability to remove automatically generated firewall rules after an IPsec tunnel is shut down.
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www.ipfire.org - IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 202 released
In this release, IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 202, we are fixing the most prominent kernel vulnerabilities of the last few weeks. OpenVPN has been updated to version 2.7 which brings support for Data Channel Offloading massively upgrading throughput for your OpenVPN tunnels. As usual, this release contains a large number of package updates with various more security fixes.
We would like to encourage to install this update as soon as possible to be protected against the unusually large amount of vulnerabilities that have been discovered recently in the Linux kernel as well as lots of other software components. Ensure to reboot your IPFire system afterwards.