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IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 126 released
by Michael Tremer 28 Dec '18

28 Dec '18

https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-21-core-update-126-released Finally, the next release of IPFire is available: IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 126 This update comes with a new kernel and security enhancements. This change log is rather short, but the changes are very important. Thank you very much to all of you who have supported our Donations Challenge [1] so far. We have received a lot of nice words and support from you, but we are not there, yet! Please support our project and donate! Linux 4.14.86 The kernel has been updated to the latest version of the Linux 4.14.x branch which brings various improvements around stability, enhances performance and fixes some security vulnerabilities. This kernel also has major updates for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that remove previously existent performance penalties in some use-cases. The kernel's modules are now compressed with the XZ algorithm which will save some space on disk as the kernel is one of the largest components of IPFire. Misc. * openssl has been updated to 1.1.0j and 1.0.2q which fixes some minor security issues and has various bug fixes * The bind package has now changed to ship shared libraries which it did not before. Those allow that commands like dig and host use those shared libraries and are no longer statically linked. This makes the files a lot smaller. * Stéphane Pautrel has substantially improved the French translation of IPFire. Thank you very much for that! Add-ons * Updated packages: bird 2.0.2, nano 3.2 * New packages: shairport-sync Thanks for the people who contributed to this Core Update. Please support us and donate! [1] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/donations-challenge

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The end of another year
by Michael Tremer 25 Dec '18

25 Dec '18

https://blog.ipfire.org/post/the-end-of-another-year It is the end of another year and I would like to take this opportunity to simply say thank you. It has been an eventful year and we have come a long way. The Stats We have brought you eight Core Updates with probably the largest changes that we have had in a while. A new kernel 4.14 [1] that is running better than ever before; we have had a spring clean [2] and remove loads of old add-ons and other packages to make space for new ones as well as getting rid of some older cryptography; we fought Meltdown [3] and Spectre [4]; we have launched IPFire on AWS [5] and added support for EFI [6] and 802.11ac WiFi [7]; we have added loads of new features that make IPFire simply better. We are all proud of our achievements and I would like to thank everyone who has contributed. Whether that is by submitting patches, reporting bugs, writing documentation and all the other things. You guys know who I am talking about. Take a couple of days off and enjoy the holidays. Merry Christmas if you are celebrating. Hope to see you all again next year! Twenty-Nineteen Of course we already have loads of plans for the next year. We have a bug tracker full of feature requests, error reports and ideas how to improve things. We also hope that we can finally move IPFire 3 over the line so that the project gains more traction - and a new Core Update [8] is ready to be released, too! We hope that our community keeps growing, more and more people keep installing IPFire and finally throw away their old gear. We have achieved a lot, but there is definitely loads to do, still. Please Donate Today Help us to achieve our goals! We are still running our donation challenge which unfortunately has not hit its goal, yet. Please consider to support our project and donate today. If you have already done so and set up a monthly donation, we thank you very very much for that [10]. [1] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-21-core-update-121-is-available-for-t… [2| https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-19-core-update-118-released [3] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/meltdown-spectre-the-chaotic-story [4] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/more-on-intel-s-hardware-bugs [5] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-21-core-update-124-released [6] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-21-core-update-124-released [7] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-21-core-update-125-released [8] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-21-core-update-126-is-available-for-t… [9] https://blog.ipfire.org/post/donations-challenge [10] https://www.ipfire.org/donate

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