The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 12.2. This is a minor release with new features, enhancements and bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use and upgrading from previous versions is strongly advised.
What is PacketFence? PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source Network Access Control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set, PacketFence can be used to effectively secure small to very large heterogeneous networks. Among the features provided by PacketFence, there are: powerful BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) capabilities multiple enforcement methods including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and hotspot-style built-in network behaviour anomaly detection state-of-the art devices identification with Fingerbank compliance checks for endpoints present on your network integration with various vulnerability scanners, intrusion detection solutions, security agents and firewalls bandwidth accounting for all devices A complete overview of the solution is available from the official website: https://packetfence.org/about.html New Features Added ContentKeeper firewall SSO support Added support for Unifi OS controllers (#7368) Added support for downloadable ACLs on Cisco and Dell switches Enhancements Allow ProxySQL to be configured to connect to a single external database Allow image files to be uploaded to a connection profile Added System Service and Systemd buttons in Admin UI Online/offline no longer relies on bandwidth accounting Pending Security Events added to network threats visualization Expose the fingerbank_info variable to all HTML portal templates (#7460) VLAN filter actions can now be done synchronously (#7351) Support for wired connections on Ruckus SmartZone Improve support of WebAuth on Aruba AP (#7470) Allow configurability of using the connector during firewall SSO New api call /api/v1/config/role/{role_id}/bulk_reevaluate_access Add warnings/errors when updating ACLs for roles and switches Azure SAML integration documentation Change log-levels of Perl services using environment variable (#7487) Containerize pfacct service Add not_before to PKI certificates (#7454) Bug Fixes Force the destination IP for UDP packets going through the pfconnector (#7323) Clear the active dynamic reverses that exist when a pfconnector reconnects OpenID Authentication Source - Duplicated Username (#7399) Unable to upgrade to Debian 11.6 with PF 11.X and 12.X (#7438) Trust server certificates when provisioning Apple devices for EAP-TLS (#7428) Use WPA2 in place of WPA when provisioning Apple devices (#7428) Creating/modifying/deleting a syslog forwarder prompts to restart rsyslog in the admin (#6532) Fixed UTF-8 encoding in email body (#7422) Escape quotes in LDAP passwords (AD source: complex passwords prevent RADIUS to start #3976) Use the proper file extensions when uploading SAML config files. (ZEN 12.1 - XML file renamed on upload #7439) Return immediately after an async job is complete (Rework pfqueue results polling #7175) Fixed issue with Aruba dACL, only the first ACL was shown in the port ZEN 12.1 installations will generate a new RADIUS key after a reboot (#7568) Disable DNS lookup in sudo to prevent API timeouts and interfaces not detected (#7403) RADIUS source+pfconnector is not working in admin context (#7550) See https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/compare/v12.1.0...v12.2.0 for the complete change log. See the Upgrade guide for notes about upgrading: https://packetfence.org/doc/PacketFence_Upgrade_Guide.html Getting PacketFence PacketFence is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such, you are free to download and try it by either getting the new release or by getting the sources: https://packetfence.org/download.html Documentation about the installation and configuration of PacketFence is also available: https://packetfence.org/support/index.html#/documentation How Can I Help? PacketFence is a collaborative effort in order to create the best Free and Open Source NAC solution. There are multiple ways you can contribute to the project: Documentation reviews, enhancements and translations Feature requests or by sharing your ideas Participate in the discussion on mailing lists (https://packetfence.org/support/index.html#/community) Patches for bugs or enhancements Provide new translations of remediation pages Getting Support For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing to su...@in<mailto:su...@in>... You can also fill our online form (https://inverse.ca/#contact) and a representative from Inverse will contact you. Inverse offers professional services to organizations willing to secure their wired and wireless networks with the PacketFence solution.
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