The latest Core Update brings some changes under the hood and modernises the base system. On top of that, minor issues are being fixed and some packages have been updated.
Apache 2.4
The web server that runs the web user interface is Apache, which now has been updated from 2.2 to the more recent 2.4 version. This mainly patches some security issues that would potentially have arisen since Apache 2.2 is no longer maintained.
We have also migrated from the prefork modul to the MPM event system which reduces the amount of processes running and reduces the memory footprint of the web user interface and some features like the update accelerator.
Overall, this is change is not significant from the end-user perspective, but has been necessary to modernise the distribution and make it fit for the future. Thanks for Wolfgang Apolinarski who has been spearheading this update.
A potential information leak has also been closed where the version of the IPFire system could be obtained from the local network without logging in to the web user interface.
Cosmetic Changes
Matthias Fischer and Peter Müller have been working on improving the appearance of the web user interface with their attention to some details. Among those are changes to the Wireless Access Point and Proxy pages as well as many improvements of the German translation which removes typos and rewords many things for better localisation.
Updated Packages
gnutls3.5.15,hdparm9.52,strongswan5.6.0,squid3.5.27,tcpdump4.9.2,unbound1.6.6
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.