14 DAY TRIAL // endian S.r.l. announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Beta version of their upcoming Endian Firewall Community 3.0.5 operating system, a minor release that contains numerous improvements and fixes more than 350 issues.
Prominent features of Endian Firewall Community 3.0.5 Beta 1 include a "Network types" feature injected into the uplink editor and network wizard components, designed to allows users to differentiate between firewall setups in various network topologies.
Moreover, this maintenance release introduces a new bridge mode that adds support for transparent implementations, and significantly improves the performance of the log analyzer functionality, as well as sending of notifications by rewriting the event management engine.
Users will now be able to create firewall rules and routing policies, thanks to the new TPROXY support introduced in the HTTP proxy component of Endian Firewall Community. Of course, the new feature will allow you to create any other rules that are based on the source IP address even if the proxy is being used.
This release introduces support for new hardware components
In addition to the above, the first Beta release of Endian Firewall Community 3.0.5 also adds support for new hardware components, updates the anti-virus engine, and addresses a significant number of security vulnerabilities that have been discovered since the previous version of the operating system.
Endian Firewall Community is a "turn-key" Linux kernel-based operating system designed for security experts who are looking for a powerful solution to turn their servers into full-featured security appliances with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionality.
Those of you who are eager to test the Endian Firewall Community 3.0.5 Beta 1 operating system can do so today by download the installable-only ISO image from Softpedia or directly from the project's website. When testing, please note that some issues remain unresolved and might cause problems on your systems.