IPFire maintainer Michael Tremer kicked off the new year by announcing the first Core Update of the open-source firewall distribution in 2018 with a huge number of security and bug fixes.
IPFire 2.19 Core Update 117 is now available to download and comes with the latest OpenSSL 1.0.2n TLS/SSL and crypto library, as well as an updated OpenVPN implementation that makes it easier to route OpenVPN Roadwarrior Clients to IPsec VPN networks by allowing users to choose routes in each client’s configuration.
The update also improves the IPsec implementation by allowing users to define the inactivity timeout time of an idle IPsec VPN tunnel that’s being closed and updating the strongSwan IPsec-based VPN solution to version 5.6.1. It also disabled the compression by default and removed support for MODP groups with subgroups.
IPFire 2.19’s build toolchain has been moved to a new location in this update, from /tools to /tools_, and the build process was cleaned up a l… (read more)
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