Software update: PacketFence 7.1.0

An NAC system can be used to secure a network environment. This allows, based on pre-set policies, network devices to be automatically blocked if an undesirable situation occurs. Think of unknown network devices of visitors, a worm that is trying to spread or an authorized device that is equipped with a different operating system via a boot flop or live CD. PacketFence is such a nac system, with support for 802.1x and vlan isolation, which allows a network device to be placed in the correct vlan after analysis. The developers have released version 7.1.0 with the following changes:

New Features

• Added support for web authentication (external captive-portal) on Ubiquiti Unifi Controller
• New Firewall/SSO (JSON-RPC) for communicating with custom firewalls (PR #2320)
• VoIP detection: LLDP lookup enhancement (#2227) (PR #2316)

Enhancements

• Add a button to access status from device registration and the other way around(PR #2259)
• Added the ability to specify multiple DNS server(s) for domain join configuration (PR #2223)
• Allow to force a predefined sponsor during sponsor authentication (PR #2150)
• Updated pfdns default filters (PR #2165)
• Added brands icons to authentication source (ie Twitter, PayPal etc ..) in the administration interface (PR #2287)
• Allow pfqueue workers to perform work across multiple queues (PR #2260)
• Added a way to set time and bandwidth balance in action rule (requires accounting to work) (PR #1936)
• Don’t display the mobileprovider field when doing SMS authentication with only one carrier enabled (PR #2322)
• Added new reports in the administration interface (PR #2313)
• Apache based services now support systemd sd_notify (PR #2351)

Bug Fixes

• Dashboard metrics are now fetched over https (#2272)
• Renamed Ubiquity to Ubiquiti (PR #2293)
• Set up variable GOPATH correctly while setting up developer environment for go (PR #2319)
• Fix too large scoping of authentication sources (#2338)
• Prevent usage of a Null source in the device registration page (#1784)
• Fixes duplicate nodes displaying when there are multiple locationlog entries (#1848)
• Fixed an issue with the Instagram OAuth2 source, where the scope has been modified on the API
• Fixed and issue where the logging configuration was ignored for httpd.aaaa and httpd.webservices (#2350)