Software update: PacketFence 8.2.0

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An NAC system can be used to secure a network environment. This allows network devices to be automatically blocked, based on pre-set policies, 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 one such nac system, with support for 802.1xfinger bank and vlan isolation, which allows a network device to be placed in the correct vlan after analysis. The developers have released version 8.2.0:

New Features

  • Added support for clusters with servers located in multiple layer 3 networks (PR #3656)
  • Permit incoming Eduroam TLRS RADIUS requests (PR #3399)
  • pfconfig is tenant aware (PR #3385)
  • Realm are tenant scoped (PR #3385)
  • Added Mojo web authentication support (PR #3604)
  • New authentication source Password of the Day (PR #3285)
  • Added SMTP test function in Alerting (PR #3642)
  • Juniper SRX Firewall SSO module (PR #2842)

Enhancements

  • Now support CoA on Meraki switches
  • jsonrpc requests send the current tenant_id (#3271)
  • Take the tenant id into consideration in the queue (#3269)
  • Performed various improvements to the maintenance script (PR #3445)
  • Increased maximum node bandwidth balance from 4 GB to 18.4467441 XB (exabytes) (#3477) (PR #3493)
  • Improve connection profile’s advanced filter
  • Use MySQL as backend for pfdhcp options (deprecates etcd) (PR #3484)
  • Reorder iptables rules (PR #3463)
  • Better error handling for pfdetect.conf (PR #3607)
  • HAProxy stats files are now located in var/run/ with explicit filenames (PR #3645)
  • pfdns now uses the PacketFence standard Golang logging library (PR #3638)
  • Added VOIP and Downloadable ACLs support to Aruba 5400 switch module (PR #3372)
  • Switch filters can now be used to override the switch module that is instantiated during a RADIUS connection (PR #3583)
  • WIRED_MAC_AUTH and Ethernet-NoEAP merged (#3069) (PR #3261)

Bug Fixes

  • Backslash in usernames in Reports section is shown as “=5C” (#3508) (PR #3510)
  • Multiple bug fixes to the pfdhcp service (PR #3571)
  • Domain join log entries contain clear-text credentials (#3448)
  • Fixed false positive dhcp rogue detection (PR #3514)
  • Sponsor Email subject and body are i18n in the same language (#3670)
  • pfstats hammers pfdhcp and the API frontend with requests (#3634)
  • Can’t download SAML metadata in the admin (#3720)

Version number 8.2.0
Release status Final
Operating systems Linux
Website PacketFence
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License type GPL
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