IPFire 2.19 - Core Update 112 is available for testing

by Michael Tremer, July 12, 2017

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Hello Community,

the next Core Update is ready for testing. Unfortunately it is a little bit behind schedule since we had some last-minute changes which I have not been able to sort out in time because of loads of travelling. But now, everything is finally up to our standards and should be ready for shipment, but before we do that, we will of course have a time for our experienced testers to confirm that we did not introduce any other regressions.

This Core Update mainly comes with updates under the hood. Core system libraries have been updated to new major versions and the build toolchain got major updates. These are:

  • glibc 2.25
  • GNU Compiler Collection 6.3.0
  • binutils 2.29
  • Python 2.7.13
  • ccache 3.3.4, bc 1.07.1, cmake 3.8.1, flex 2.6.4, fuse 2.9.7, boost 1.64.0, gawk 4.1.4, gnutls 3.5.11, grep 2.27, libarchive 3.3.1, libgcrypt 1.7.7, libgpg-error 1.27, libxml2 2.9.4, mdadm 4.0, openssl 1.0.2l, pkg-config 2.29.2, reiserfsprogs 3.6.25, SDL 1.2.15, squid 3.5.26, strongswan 5.5.3, unbound 1.6.3, util-linux 2.28.2

Misc.

  • openvpn (2.3.17) has received some security updates that have been discovered recently.
  • A remote command execution vulnerarbility in ids.cgi has been closed with could be used by authenticated users to run shell commands with non-superuser rights.
  • It is now possible to create networks in the firewall that are a subnet of any of the internal zones.
  • The toolchain and build scripts have also been cleaned up and improved.
  • The IPFire netboot has been updated so that always the best architecture for a system is used (i.e. the 64 bit version is installed when the system supports it).

Add-ons

Updated

  • 7zip 16.02
  • bird 1.6.3
  • cyrus-imapd 2.5.11
  • iperf 2.0.9
  • directfb 1.7.7
  • freeradius 3.0.14
  • monit 5.23.0
  • miniupnpd is now listening on GREEN by default
  • tmux 2.5
  • tor 3.0.8

Dropped

  • iftop imspector and tcpick are not maintained upstream any more

As always, we would like to ask all users to participate in testing which will highly improve the quality of this update.

Please report any bugs to our bug tracker and provide any feedback on our development mailing list.