IPCop 1.4.20 was released yesterday. This version has been split in two parts, in order to solve the issue of free space limitation related to the great number of new package additions, since the recent releases. Most of the work made on 1.4.19 / 1.4.20 are bugfixes and update interface changes. Here is a brief summary of them:

Software updates:

￭ OpenSSH 4.7p1
￭ dnsmasq 2.45
￭ tzdata 2008d
￭ pcre 7.7
￭ Apache 1.3.41
￭ e1000 7.6.15.5
￭ bzip2 1.0.5 CVE-2008-1372
￭ e2fsprogs 1.40.11
￭ Squid 2.6.STABLE21
￭ bin 9.4.2-P1
￭ r1000 is now compiled with jumbo frame support
￭ lzo.so binary was included

Kernel changes:

￭ Added protection against null-pointer dereference (mmap_min_addr=4096);
￭ New nic drivers: skge, sky2, sc92031, atl1 and atl2;
￭ Improved SATA and IDE drivers support.

Installer changes:

￭ badblock was made available on install, but it's not used yet;
￭ There is no need to link the installer against libpci anymore;
￭ The hard drive partitioning tool is now available as a separate package.

Various changes:

￭ A help message was added for those of you who might want to compile directly inside IPCop;
￭ Opera 9.50 will now be detected;
￭ A new script was added, that can set the default booting kernel in GRUB.

These are only a few of the changes included in IPCop 1.4.20, a Linux distribution that can really stop the bad packets. For a full changelog please visit the official announcement page here.

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