A new version of IPFire, a powerful and professional Open Source firewall solution, has been released.

IPFire 2.25 - Core Update 156 released

Another update is available: IPFire 2.25 - Core Update 156. As usual for this time of the year, it is a spring clear release that updates lots of software and brings a new exciting feature: Live Graphs.

Misc.

• Networking: Interfaces in bridges are now numbered and renamed to mark to which bridge they belong
• Support for macvtap has been dropped - Please use bridges instead
• Alexander Marx has fixed a bug where copied firewall rules showed an incorrect source port ( #12479)
• The kernel's BPF JIT hardening has been enabled
• Instructions helping users to restore their backup correctly have been added
• Thomas Cekal has contributed a fix for IPFire getting stuck at boot on Hyper-V
• All alternative themes for the web user interface have been dropped
• Adolf Belka and Matthias Fischer have updated loads of packages of the core system: acl 2.3.1, attr 2.5.1, bind 9.11.28, bison 3.7.6, bzip2 1.0.8, cmake 3.20, crda 4.14, diffutils 3.7, ed 1.17, gawk 5.1.0, gettext 0.21, gmp 6.2.1, gperf 3.1, grep 3.6, jQuery 3.6.0, libcap 2.49, libloc 0.9.6, libmpc 1.2.1, libnfsidmap 0.27, libpcap 1.10.0, libstatgrab 0.92, libtirpc 1.3.1, mcelog 175, nettle 3.7.2, openssl 1.1.1k, parted 3.4, Perl 5.32.1, perl-Carp-Clan 6.08, perl-Date-Calc 6.4, perl-Date-Manip 6.85, perl-File-Tail 1.3, perl-MIME-Base64 3.16, perl-Net-DNS 1.30, perl-Net-SMTP-SSL 1.04, pigz 2.6, poppler 0.89.0, rust 1.51, strace 5.11, strongswan 5.9.2, sudo 1.9.6p1, swig 4.0.2, sysbench 1.0.20 (no longer available on armv5tel), sysvinit 2.99, zstd 1.4.9

Add-ons

• Updated packages: clamav 0.103.2, git 2.31.0, monit 5.28.0, mpc 0.33, nfs 2.5.3, libmpdclient 2.19, rpcbind 1.2.5, samba 4.13.7, speedtest-cli 2.1.3, swatch 3.2.4, tcpdump 4.99.0, Tor 0.4.5.7

IPFire 2.25 - Core Update 156 released - The IPFire Blog