PacketFence 3.5.0 released

August 1, 2012

The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 3.5.0. This is a major release with new features and important bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use so upgrading to 3.5.0 is advised.

Here are the changes in 3.5.0:

New Hardware Support

• Cisco Catalyst 3560G
• Netgear GS110 series (SNMP link up/down)
• Cisco Aironet in Wireless Directory Services (WDS) mode

New Features

• Remediation module for SourceFire 3D (addons/sourcefire)
• Added portal profile feature that allow to present a custom captive portal depending on the SSID you connect to. Refer to Administration Guide for further details
• Added a new action to close another violation
• Added a new Web-based configurator that eases the installation and configuration process of a new PacketFence installation
• Added support for Suricata IDS (#1141)

Enhancements

• Improved handling of an empty conf/pf.conf configuration file
• Improved error reporting for dynamic uplink detection on Cisco
• Interface gateways are no longer required in configuration (#1447)
• general.caching parameter removed from configuration
• Major refactoring, cleanup and dependencies removal
• node.expire now works for VLAN/Inline mode (#1481)
• Closing expired violations using the release_date (#1476)
• Excluding the local switch when building the NAS SQL table (#1491)
• FreeRADIUS configuration is now fully managed (pf/raddb)
• Use of Nessus XMLRPC to launch the remote scan
• Possibility to select a policy in nessus by the node category
• Refactoring of the accounting violations
• Refactoring of the captive portal templates generation
• trapping.registration now enabled by default

Bug Fixes

• Wrong information sent by mail for sponsored registration (#1445)
• DHCP listener watch issue fix (#1490)

… 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.

Enjoy!