IPFire is a Linux distribution that focusses on easy setup, good handling and high level of security. It is operated via an intuitive web-based interface which offers many configuration options for beginning and experienced system administrators. IPFire is maintained by developers who are concerned about security and who update the product regularly to keep it secure. IPFire ships with a custom package manager called Pakfire and the system can be expanded with various add-ons.
Michael Tremer has announced the available of a new release of IPFire, a Linux distribution often used on firewalls and routers. The distributions latest release is IPFire 2.23 Core Update 135: "This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.23 - Core Update 135, which is packed with a new kernel, various bug fixes and we recommend to install it as soon as possible. The IPFire Linux kernel has been rebased on 4.14.138 and various improvements have been added. Most notably, this kernel - once again - fixes CPU vulnerabilities. On x86_64, the effectiveness of KASLR has been improved which prevents attackers from executing exploits or injecting code. DNS: unbound has been improved so that it will take much less time to start up in case a DNS server is unavailable. Scripts that boot up IPFire have been improved, rewritten and cleaned up for a faster boot and they now handle some error cases better. Updated packages: dhcpcd 7.2.3, nettle 3.5.1, squid 4.8, tzdata 2019b.
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IPFire is a Linux distribution that focusses on easy setup, good handling and high level of security. It is operated via an intuitive web-based interface which offers many configuration options for beginning and experienced system administrators. IPFire is maintained by developers who are concerned about security and who update the product regularly to keep it secure. IPFire ships with a custom package manager called Pakfire and the system can be expanded with various add-ons.
