Users can download the SP1 as an ISO image

Mar 30, 2015 23:57 GMT  ·  By

The first Service Pack (SP) release of Smoothwall Express 3.1, an open source best-of-breed Internet firewall and router operating system designed to run on commodity hardware, has been released today with a great number of improvements over the previous stable version.

The Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP1 comes as new, installable ISO images supporting both 64- and 32-bit CPU architectures. The Service Pack 1 has been released in order to fix the importing of Smoothwall Express 3.0 settings, which broke the web proxy and QoS components, making it hard for users to upgrade to the recent 3.1 release.

In addition, Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP1 is here to address some issues with IOMMU (Input/Output Memory Management Unit), as well as with the console display, by adding an additional runtime to the GRUB bootloader menu selection, forcing the OS to boot with the “nomodeset” and “iommu=soft” arguments.

New packages have been added and numerous updated in Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP1

Among the new packages added in Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP1, we can mention GDGraph 1.48, GDTextUtil 0.86, libusb-compat, and setkerneltz. On the other hand, updated packages include OpenSSL 1.0.1k, Snort 2.9.7.2, ClamAV 0.98.6, OpenSWAN 2.6.42, apcupsd 3.14.13, bzip2 1.0.6, GD 2.53, linux-firmware (20150309), Smartmontools 6.3, libusb 1.0.19, and whois 5.5.2.

“This update addresses a number of small deficiencies found since SWE3.1 was released, adds a number of enhancements, integrates more of SmoothInstall (for mod installation), bumps ClamAV, OpenSSL and Snort to their latest versions, and addresses some long-standing CVEs,” was stated in the release announcement, where you can find more information about the new changes. Download Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP1 right now from Softpedia.