The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
PacketFence 4.0.4. This is a minor release with some new features, enhancements
and important bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use
and upgrading from 4.0.3 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) workflows
Simple and efficient guests management
Multiple enforcement methods with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Compliance checks for computers present on your network
Integration with various vulnerability scanners and intrusion detection
solutions
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
Portal profiles can now have multiple filters
Enhancements
Added new regexp operator for strings in authentication rules
Automatic landing on the sign-in page if no internal/oauth authentication
source is used by the portal profile
Self-registration is now enabled when a profile has at least one external
authentication source
Authentication sources of portal profiles are now displayed in a sortable table
Sort actions of a violation in reverse order to set the role before auto
registration
Added hostapd configuration in the Network Devices Configuration Guide
Version number is now sent when submiting dhcp and useragents fingerprints
Bug Fixes
External authentication sources of portal profiles are not respected
A portal profile can have multiple external authentication sources of the same
type
Port 443 on the management interface is not open when gaming registration is
enable
Crash of FreeRADIUS with SOAP::Lite prior to version 1.0
Wrong permissions on the logs files causes an error with the log action of
violations
Error with violations with tainted chain in pfmailer and action_log subroutines
Triggering a violation with a trap action doesn't reevaluate access
authentication.conf and profiles.conf are overwritten when updating PacketFence
First element of button groups is not properly displayed
Sponsors are not extracted from LDAP sources
See the ChangeLog file for the complete list of changes:
https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/tree/packetfence-4.0.4/ChangeLog
See the UPGRADE file for notes about upgrading:
https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/tree/packetfence-4.0.4/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
supp...@inverse.ca
You can also fill our online form (http://www.inverse.ca/about/contact.html)
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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