Hi folks,

It's again time for me to announce that we are getting into release mode 
for our upcoming release. So if you have any "low-hanging fruit" bug or 
small features you want in for the next release let us know!

What's new since 2.0.1 so far:

New Hardware Support
- Added Avaya as rebranded Nortel's
- Support for Nortel's ERS5500 with firmware 6.x

New Features
- New configuration validation interface in Web Admin and with "pfcmd 
checkup"
- javascript-based network access detection (experimental)
- JSON bindings for node information (experimental)

Enhancements
- Improvements to our Nortel support
- Developer documentation update
- Friendlier startup error messages
- More configuration validation on startup and in 'pfcmd checkup' 
(#1025, #1193)
- New DHCP fingerprints for Cisco, UniData and Nortel IP Phones, Cisco 
Small Business switch, Netgear router, Generic Linux, Gentoo, Meego, 
LaCie NAS, Xyratex NAS, iPod/iPad, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Sharp 
smartphones, Samsung, HTC and Pantech Android phones, APC and Tripplite 
UPS, some Generic Thin Clients, HP, Xerox and Brother printers, Mac OS X 
and finally last but not least a what-is-believed to be a Palm OS 
fingerprint!
- Improved test suite
- Miscellaneous code cleanup (#1165)
- Generated configuration files are now in var/... (#1014)
- pid files are now in var/run/
- Module versioning to improve handling of API changes in extension points
- Improvements to Captive Portal library utilities

Bug fixes
- Removed misleading warnings on startup (#767)
- fixed SNMPv3 sample configuration (Thanks to Nate Renbarger)
- Allows apache2 as a valid httpd daemon name (#1185, Thanks to Jesper)
- Violation with action autoreg is only triggered if node is not 
registered (#1026)
- Fixed errors when editing a node with an unknown connection type (#1177)
- No more warnings in node lookup (#1173)
- Warning avoidance in pf::vlan's doWeActOnThisTrap (#832)
- pfcmd_vlan regressions (#1190)
- Worked around an upstream packaging problem with SOAP::Lite (#1194)

Translations
- New Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translation (Thanks to Brivaldo Junior)

Cheers!
-- 
Olivier Bilodeau
obilod...@inverse.ca  ::  +1.514.447.4918 *115  ::  www.inverse.ca
Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence 
(www.packetfence.org)

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