Announcement: PacketFence 5.1.0
The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
PacketFence 5.1.0. This is a major release with new features, enhancements and
important 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
• state-of-the art devices fingerprinting with Fingerbank
• multiple enforcement methods including Role-Based Access Control
(RBAC) and hotspot-style
• 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:
http://www.packetfence.org/about/overview.html
Changes Since Previous Release
New Features
• New activation_domain feature allowing to expose a different domain
than PacketFence's name in email templates
• Added Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) as a scan engine
• Multiple scan engine definitions based on the OS type and role
• Scan definition based on portal profiles
• New external command action in violation
• New API methods for adding, viewing or modifying a person
• New performance dashboard based on Graphite allows tracking of core
performance metrics such as number and latency of RADIUS requests, number of
httpd processes and authorization latency
• Define range of network switches (CIDR) in switch configuration
• Module for Cisco Aironet 1600
• Added ability to join an Active Directory domain directly from the
administration interface
• Added the ability to join multiple Active Directory domains for
EAP-PEAP authentication
Enhancements
• Verify if the database schema matches the current version of
PacketFence
• Removed the unnecessary "Upstream" listing from the "Combination"
menu item of Fingerbank section
• Ability to search in Fingerbank "Local" "Devices" listing
• Allow rules to match on both source and action
• pfsetvlan and snmptrapd are now stopped by default as most users no
longer require them
• Improve the end process redirection on the captive portal
• Refactor mandatory fields to be dynamic and update the person table
with them
• Moved raddb/sites-enabled/packetfence and
raddb/sites-enabled/packetfence-tunnel in conf/radiusd
• pfcmd can now validate that certificates used by Apache and
FreeRADIUS are still valid
• Added new SMS carrier for Switzerland
• Ability to fix Fingerbank files permissions from pfcmd fixpermissions
Bug Fixes
• Fixes tables displaying bugs in Fingerbank menu items
• Fixed search values not being preserved in some cases
• Fixed switch access list field turning into an object reference
• Fixed bad redirection to the portal at the end of the registration
process
• Better handling of Fingerbank errors
See https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/commits/packetfence-5.1.0 for
the complete change log.
See the UPGRADE file for notes about upgrading:
https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/tree/packetfence-5.1.0/UPGRADE.asciidoc
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: http://www.packetfence.org/development/sourcecode.html
Documentation about the installation and configuration of PacketFence is also
available: http://www.packetfence.org/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
(http://www.packetfence.org/support/community.html)
• 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
[email protected]
You can also fill our online form (http://www.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.
--
Louis Munro
[email protected] :: www.inverse.ca
+1.514.447.4918 x125 :: +1 (866) 353-6153 x125
Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence
(www.packetfence.org)
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