IPFire 2.19 Update 103 Adds Web Proxy Improvements, Latest Tor for Anonymity

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The IPFire 2.19 Core Update 103 Linux kernel-based firewall distribution has been released today, July 12, bringing web proxy improvements and the latest security patches and bug fixes.

Michael Tremer has had the pleasure of making the announcement for this new maintenance update of the IPFire 2.19 series for the open-source, platform-independent firewall powered by a Linux kernel. According to the release notes, it adds many improvements to the built-in web proxy support, which is now based on Squid 3.5.

“The web proxy squid has been updated to the 3.5 series and various improvements for stability and performance were made,” says Michael Tremer. “On machines with slow harddisks or on installations with very large caches it was likely to happen that the cache index got corrupted when the proxy was shut down. This resulted in an unstable web proxy after the next start.”

Moreover, the development team has managed to improve the shutdown routine, which will finally s… (read more)

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