Core Update 186 (testing) report

["Peter Müller" <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>]

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Hello development folks,

Core Update 186 (testing; see: https://www.ipfire.org/blog/ipfire-2-29-core-update-186-is-available-for-testing)
is running here for a couple of days by now without any major issues known so far.

During the update, I merely noticed dracut complaining:

> dracut: Skipping program /bin/loginctl using in udev rule 71-seat.rules as it cannot be found

However, this does not appear to have any noticeable impact whatsoever.

The updated Lynis version now outputs significantly fewer warnings about deprecated
grep parameters, which previously made output hard to read sometimes.

Tested IPFire functionalities in detail:
- PPPoE dial-up via a DSL connection
- IPsec (N2N connections only)
- Squid (authentication enabled, using an upstream proxy)
- OpenVPN (RW connections only)
- IPS/Suricata (with Emerging Threats community ruleset enabled)
- Guardian
- Quality of Service
- DNS (using DNS over TLS and strict QNAME minimisation)
- Dynamic DNS
- Tor (relay mode)

I am looking forward to the release of Core Update 186.

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller