Re: [Efw-user] Announcement: Endian Firewall Community 2.3rc1

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Thank you for this distro. It is great! And I have *never* rebooted
since I installed months ago. I even FORGOT I had the Endian firewall up
and running, because it's not even part of my daily routine, (which is a
good thing!).

What I would like to know, is how can I upgrade when the new version is
ready, without having to do a complete reinstall?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Graffer [mailto:chr...@en...]
> Sent: 17 September 2009 22:39
> To: efw...@li...
> Subject: [Efw-user] Announcement: Endian Firewall Community 2.3rc1
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Although it has been a while since our last official statement we
never
> stopped working on a new release in the background. Today I have good
> news for you!
> 
> I am proud to announce the first release candidate of our Endian
> Firewall Community 2.3 which is now available at:
> 
> http://www.endian.com/en/community/download/
> 
> Please remember that this is not the final release. Therefore do not
> use
> it in production environments unless you know what you are doing.
> Should
> you find any bugs do not hesitate and add them to our bugtracker at
> http://bugs.endian.com/ *AFTER* you have made sure that the bug has
not
> been reported already.
> 
> This release includes many features that were previously available
only
> to users of the Enterprise version as well as some completely new
> features. These new EFW Community features are:
> 
> ** Backups
> Backups can now be stored to and recovered from attached USB mass
> storage devices. It is also possible to schedule automatic backups and
> to send encrypted backups via email.
> 
> ** Dashboard
> The main page has been replaced by a dashboard with statistics about
> the
> system and its services as well as live-graphs for incoming and
> outgoing
> traffic.
> 
> ** Email notifications
> Emails can be sent automatically for predefined events.
> 
> ** HTTP proxy time based access control
> With the new interface it is possible to add time based access control
> lists for the HTTP proxy.
> 
> ** HTTP proxy with user- and group-based content filtering
> The HTTP proxy now has a new and polished web interface that adds the
> possibility to create group based content filters.
> 
> ** Intrusion Prevention
> Snort rules can now be configured. It is possible to drop packets as
> well as to log intrusion attempts.
> 
> ** Policy routing
> Routing rules can be created based on the interface, MAC address,
> protocol or port of a packet.
> 
> ** Port forwarding rewrite
> In version 2.3 it is possible to add port-forwards from any zone (only
> from the RED zone previously). Port forwarding without NAT is now also
> supported.
> 
> ** Quality of Service
> Traffic Shaping has been replaced by a fully configurable Quality of
> Service module. QoS devices, classes and rules can be defined.
> 
> ** SNMP support
> Basic SNMP support has been added.
> 
> ** SMTP proxy web interface rewrite
> The web interface of the SMTP proxy has been rewritten with focus on
> usability.
> 
> ** VLAN support (IEEE 802.1Q trunking)
> It is now possible to create VLANs on every interface. The VLAN
> interfaces can be used to distinguish connections in the same zone.
> 
> 
> Enjoy the release!
> Christian and the whole Endian team
> 
>
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