Hello,
after a little break with many things to fight, we are back with a brand new Core Update which is packed with various bug fixes and cleanup of a lot of code.
Kernel Update
The IPFire Linux kernel has been rebased on 4.14.138 and various improvements have been added. Most notably, this kernel - once again - fixes CPU vulnerabilities.
Misc.
- On x86_64, the effectiveness of KASLR has been improved which prevents attackers from executing exploits or injecting code
- DNS:
unbound
has been improved so that it will take much less time to start up in case a DNS server is unavailable. - Scripts that boot up IPFire have been improved, rewritten and cleaned up for a faster boot and they now handle some error cases better
- Updated packages:
dhcpcd
7.2.3,nettle
3.5.1,squid
4.8,tzdata
2019b
Add-ons
Updated Packages
bird
2.0.4clamav
0.101.3iperf
2.0.13iperf3
3.7mc
4.8.23pcengines-firmware
4.9.0.7