It has a couple of important security fixes and a few changes

Feb 2, 2012 07:51 GMT  ·  By

Michael Tremer, developer for ipfire.org team, has announced IPFire 2.11 Core 56, a new stable release of the popular a Linux-based firewall distribution.

IPFire 2.11 Core 56 comes with a new interesting feature that can be found in the preinstalled images, which automatically scale up the partitions at the first boot. The minimum required size of flash media has changed from 1 GB to 2 GB.

The Linux distribution also has a couple important security updates pertaining to OpenSSL, which was updated to 0.9.8t, and usb-modeswitch which is now at version 1.2.2 and  database version 20120120, and can handle more UMTS and LTE hardware.

Other changes include a fix for baud rate on flash images, a fix for changing passwords of proxy users, a fix for block device detection for graphs and other scripts, and a fix for  starting/stopping errors in the openvpn-control binary for net-to-net connections.

Download IPFire 2.11 Core 56 right now from Softpedia.