PacketFence v6.4 released

November 16, 2016

The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence v6.4.0. This is a major release with new features, enhancements and important bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use and upgrading from previous versions is strongly advised.

Here are the changes included in this release:

New Features

• Added Mojo Networks WiFi equipment support (PR#1765)
• Made Web admin reports more interactive (PR#1731)
• Support authentication through Eduroam (PR#1642)
• Allow to create different portal templates based on the browser locale (PR#1638)

Enhancements

• Improved IP log performance (PR#1832 / PR#1828 / PR#1790)
• Added fault tolerance on RADIUS monitoring scripts (PR#1831)
• Improved the database and maintenance backup script (PR#1830)
• Added password caching support for Novell eDirectory (PR#1829)
• Improved caching of LDAP users data (PR#1826)
• Improved clustering documentation (PR#1825)
• Added RADIUS command line interface support on port 1812 (PR#1817)
• Removed useless htaccess file search for each HTTP request (PR#1806)
• Turned off HTTP KeepAlive to avoid connections holding onto Apache processes (PR#1801)
• Added Cisco MSE documentation (PR#1799)
• Ability to query ‘iplog_archive’ table for detailed IP/MAC history (PR#1793)
• Now also display the status for sub services from the Web interface (#1040 /PR#1792)
• Requests made with username ‘dummy’ will not be recorded in the RADIUS audit log anymore (PR#1789)
• More lightweight p0f processing (PR#1788)
• Removed useless logging in pfdns.log (PR#1782)
• Added an activation timeout on sponsor source (PR#1777)
• Improved captive portal logging (PR#1769)
• Allow the OAuth landing page template to be customizable (PR#1767)
• Use RESTful call for RADIUS accounting instead of Perl (#1760)
• Optimized getting node information from the database (PR#1753)
• New action generateconfig for pfcmd service command (PR#1744)
• Added memory limitation for httpd.portal processes (PR#1738)
• Added predefined search in RADIUS audit log and DHCP Option 82 log (PR#1716)
• Improved display of fingerprinting informations in the nodes search (PR#1709)
• Allow captiveportal::Form::Authentication to be customize (PR#1666)
• Default config overlay for switches.conf, profiles.conf, pfqueue.conf and violations.conf (PR#1647)
• Optimized queries for finding open violations (PR#1718)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed floating devices in active/active clusters (PR#1800)
• Fixed and improved syntax of pfcmd ipmachistory (#1794)
• Fixed wrong bandwidth calculation on RADIUS accounting (#1733)
• Fixed empty Calling-Station-Id in RADIUS accounting (PR#1756)
• Make sure connection caches are cleared after forking (#1748 / #1749 / PR#1751)
• Added a workaround for DHCP clients that do not respect short lease times (#1673)
• Added namespace parameter in WMI rule (PR#1633)
• Fixed non-working switch ranges with external portal (#1574 / PR#1613)
• Joining a domain will sometimes return a 500 even though it succeeded (#1821/#1818)
• Cisco WLC ignores our CoA requests but accepts our Disconnect Requests (#1819)
• pfdetect: pipe is closing when no content (#1814)
• Condition is a Phone in RADIUS audit log is not working properly (#1813)
• Condition AutoRegistration in RADIUS audit log is not working properly (#1812)
• Configurator: Status on the services doesn’t work (#1811)
• Invalid SQL for iplog_cleanup_sql (#1802)
• Added request cache support (#1775)
• Added stack trace logging (#1774)
• Removed redundant SQL indexes (#1773)
• Removed unused code in pf::locationlog (#1772)
• Fixed missing fields in RADIUS audit log (#1395)
• Fixed RADIUS audit log hours selection (#1364)

See the complete list of changes and the UPGRADE.asciidoc file for notes about upgrading.