Hello editors,

this is a pre-announcement email to all editors out there who write about IPFire. We would like to let you know, that we are planning to release the next IPFire release, IPFire 2.23 Core Update 131, next Thursday, May 16th, between 10:00 and 14:00 UTC.

We are sending you this announcement to give you some time to prepare a news article about this new release of IPFire to help us make IPFire better-known and of course to make our existing users aware of this exciting new update being ready to be installed. We are very grateful for your support for our project!

The changelog can be found here:

https://blog.ipfire.org/post/ipfire-2-23-core-update-131-is-available-for-te...

This release is a *major* release of IPFire. The newly introduced Intrusion Prevention System is bringing the distribution to another level because of its enhanced capabilities compared to its predecessor snort in combination with Guardian.

The new IPS is a lost faster, more accurate and therefore more secure and we think that many users who have not been using the old IDS, will now use the new IPS.

Here is some documentation:

https://wiki.ipfire.org/configuration/firewall/ips/start

In this release, we also updated our Linux kernel for better stability, hardware support and security. We have also updated various software of the core distribution to keep our users safe.

We are very excited about this release.

Please get in touch if you have any further questions.

We will send you the final announcement when the update is officially released.

Thank you very much for supporting our project!

Best regards, -Michael