IPFire 2.23 - Core Update 135 is ready for testing

by Michael Tremer, August 19, 2019

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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 2.0.4
  • clamav 0.101.3
  • iperf 2.0.13
  • iperf3 3.7
  • mc 4.8.23
  • pcengines-firmware 4.9.0.7