PacketFence 3.0.3 released

November 21, 2011

A minor release bringing performance improvement, new hardware support, some enhancements, important bug fixes and updated translations.

Ready for production use.

Here are the changes since 3.0.3:

New Hardware Support

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches in port-security
• HP Procurve 5400 now supporting mac auth and 802.1x (with VoIP)

Enhancements

• Performance improvement under stressed workloads
• Translatable remediation templates (if a translated version exists, it’ll override the default)
• Guest management interface can be translated
• More documentation for service watch
• Eliminated some unncessary warnings
• Better help in the web admin UI
• Added a new addon: import-node-csv.pl - bulk node import tool
• Added a new addon: network-save-configs.pl - saves configs (write mem) for the whole network (only Cisco for now)

Bug Fixes

• 802.1X broken on Cisco Catalyst 3750 (#1286)
• Pop-Up windows are too small (#1078)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 installation instructions
• Encoding on the remediation pages and on the release pages (scan, access enabled)
• SNMPv3 issues affecting all the Cisco wired product line (#1284)
• Allow incoming DHCP on management interface to track users IPs in production VLANs (as opposed to DNS added in 3.0.2)
• Node add silently fails on the Web Admin if a node already exists
• Error reporting in Web Admin breaks layout (#1290)
• Captive portal presentation glitch on the scan in progress page
• Email activation regression (#1328)
• alerting.fromaddr visible from Web Admin (#1333)
• Inline mode regression if you don’t do VLAN enforcement at the same time (#1325)
• Avoiding missing session variables in SMS activation
• DHCP analysis on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 (#1336)
• Disabling email guests would prevent sms guest registration

Translations

• Minor update to French (fr) translation
• Updated Spanish (es) translation (Thanks to Juan Camilo Valencia)

… and more. See the ChangeLog file for the complete list of changes and the UPGRADE file for notes about upgrading. Both files are in the PacketFence distribution.

Happy upgrading!