14 DAY TRIAL // Andrew Colin Kissa and the development team behind the Baruwa Enterprise Edition (popularly known as BaruwaOS) commercial operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux announced the release of BaruwaOS 6.9.
Derived from the freely distributed sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, BaruwaOS 6.9 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9, which is the last stability and bugfix release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x operating systems series. Therefore, BaruwaOS 6.9 should also be the last maintenance update for its 6.x series.
Besides all the security updates inherited from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9, BaruwaOS 6.9 gains many new features and improvements, among which we can mention support for disabling SMTP TIME rejections and the DANE protocol, better Sophos and F-Prot integration, as well as improved brute force protection.
"MTA brute force SMTP password cracking protection has been further enhanced in this version to catch various tricks used by cracking software," read the release notes. "A new baruwa-unblock.sh command has been implemented for use in unblocking hosts and users that have been blocked by brute force protection and MTA reputation management."
Improved rate limiting, anti-virus signature updates
Also improved in the BaruwaOS 6.9 operating system release there's the update mechanism used for custom ClamAV Anti-Virus signatures, the NTP (Network Time Protocol) syncronization thanks to the implementation of the Chrony daemon, which deprecates ntpdate, the queue monitoring support, as well as rate limiting.
The management of spam rule local scores was improved as well in BaruwaOS 6.9, allowing users to set spam rule local scores to 0.0. The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has been removed as it's been superseded by the built-in freshclam system, and various reported bugs were addressed.
BaruwaOS 6.9 ISO images are available for download for existing customers with a paid and active subscription from the project's website. All users using Baruwa Enterprise Edition 2.0.7 or later can now upgrade to BaruwaOS 6.9 using the baruwa-setup command. The OS is free to try for 30 days.