On the same day as releasing Core Update 150, the next one - Core Update 151 - is available for testing.

It comes with various package updates and a number of bug fixes in IPFire Location and security improvements in the SSH service.

Improvements to IPFire Location

Since the rollout of our new location database, we have made various improvements on the software implementation to increase accuracy and speed. These are now all included in this Core Update.

In addition to that, we now show whether an IP address is marked as an "anonymous proxy", "satellite provider" or "anycast" which helps debugging network issues and investigating attacks.

Misc.

• OpenSSH has been updated an no longer supports using SHA1 in the key exchange. Some outdated clients might not be able to connect to the IPFire SSH console any more. Please update your SSH client if you are encountering any problems.
• A bug has been fixed that IPsec connections where not properly shut down when deleted on the web user interface. The connection was often re-established before it has been removed from the IPsec configuration which could keep it active until the next reboot.
• Marcel Follert has contributed two new packages: ncdu - a graphical disk usage monitor, and lshw - a tool that shows installed hardware to the system
• Updated packages: binutils 2.35.1, boost 1.71.0, cmake 3.18.3, dhcpcd 9.1.4, fontconfig 2.13.1, freetype 2.10.2, iptables 1.8.5, knot 3.0.0, lcms2 2.9, libgcrypt 1.8.6, libidn 1.36, libloc 0.9.4, libnetfilter_conntrack 1.0.8, libnetfilter_queue 1.0.5, lmdb 0.9.24, logwatch 7.5.4, openjpeg 2.3.1, openssl 1.1.1h, poppler 0.89.0, qpdf 10.0.1, strongswan 5.9.0
• Various Perl modules have been updated by Matthias Fischer: Digest::SHA1 2.13, Digest::HMAC 1.03, Net::DNS 1.25, Net::SSLeay 1.88

Add-ons

• Updated packages: avahi 0.8, bacula 9.6.6, cups 2.3.3, cups-filters 1.27.4, dnsdist 1.5.1, freeradius 3.0.21, Git 2.28.0, guardian, haproxy 2.2.4, iptraf-ng 1.2.1, keepalived 2.1.5, libmicrohttpd 0.9.71, libsolv 0.7.14, lynis 3.0.0, nginx 1.19.2, stunnel 5.56