14 DAY TRIAL // Michael Tremer, a developer for the ipfire.org team, has announced that IPFire 2.13 Core 71, a new stable release of the popular Linux-based firewall distribution, is now available for download.
Most IPFire distribution releases implement a small number of fixes and new features, but this latest one incorporates a few important changes.
“It is now possible to assign a wireless adapter as the RED interface. A GUI has been written where you can configure wireless access points, to which the IPFire system will connect when in reach.
“You will be able to configure backup access points, to which IPFire will switch when the first one is down or out of reach. You can prioritize them, so that you can connect to the best one when ever that is possible. All common encryption technologies are supported,” reads the official announcement.
Also, a new DNS forwarding GUI has been written and now users are capable of defining different name servers than the public name servers for their respective DNS zones.
According to the developers, the squidclamav process has been placed in front of the proxy. This means that it will rely on the cache of the proxy and it will not scan the data that’s coming from the cache all over again. This procedure has resulted in a huge speed increase for web browsing.
The Intrusion Detection System (IDS) or snort has been updated to its latest version, 2.9.5, and a number of smaller changes have been implemented, like the update for the USB modeswitch database, improvements for the Web proxy service, and the introduction of GNU jwhois.
A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official announcement. The developers have recommended that all the users of IPFire should upgrade their distribution. Download IPFire 2.13 Core 71 right now from Softpedia.