The developer has also implemented a few other important updates

Nov 21, 2012 10:54 GMT  ·  By

Michael Tremer, developer for the ipfire.org team, has announced IPFire 2.11 Core 64, a new stable release of the popular Linux-based firewall distribution.

Unlike previous versions of IPFire, which brought substantial changes, this latest release, IPFire 2.11 Core 64, only brings a few fixes and updates;

Highlights of IPFire 2.11 Core 64:

• The Intrusion Detection program snort has been updated to version 2.9.3.1; • The daq library has been updated to version 1.1.1; • The broken MAC rules have been fixed for the outgoing firewall; • The path to the delete icon has been fixed, as reported by Jörn-Ingo Weigert; • pakfire can now use the XZ compression algorithm for the package payload.

A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official announcement.

Download IPFire 2.11 Core 64 right now from Softpedia.