PacketFence v8.3 released

January 9, 2019

The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence v8.3. This is an important release with new features, enhancements and 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 support for Juniper EX2300 (JUNOS 18.2) switches
• Clickatell authentication source support
• Added a random algorithm for VLAN pooling
• Added the ability to reserve IP addresses in pfdhcp
• Added a way to trigger a violation when device profiling detects a change in the device class
• New SSL Inspection portal module
• RADIUS proxy integration from web admin interface
• RADIUS filtering support for pre_proxy/post_proxy/preacct/accounting/authorize phases
• Updated the Windows provisioning agent to the new Golang based version

Enhancements

• Redis now only listens on localhost (#3729)
• Deprecate usage of roaring bitmap for the DHCP IP pool (#3779)
• Email and SponsorEmail sources can have banned and allowed email domains (#3807)
• Improved startup time of pfdhcp
• Removed OPSWAT Metadefender Cloud support
• Chose password hashing algorithm when creating a local user from a source
• Define the length of the password to generate when creating a local user from a source
• New “dummy” source just to compute the rules

Bug Fixes

• Logs permissions and configuration for Debian (#3780)
• Fixed missing cache directory for NTLM auth cache (#3788)
• Fixed working directory of NTLM auth cache sync script (#3777)
• Handled multiple LDAP hosts properly in NTLM auth cache (#3776)
• Issue with the DHCP server that gives sometimes a duplicate IP address
• Adjusted CentOS and RHEL dependencies
• Fixed MAC filtered lookups that were cached in pfdns (#3785)
• Fixed the OpenVAS integration to work with OpenVAS Manager 7.0 (OpenVAS 9)
• Fixed encoding of files created in the administration interface (force them to UTF-8)

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