The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence v12.0. This is a major release with new features, enhancements and bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use and upgrading from previous versions is strongly advised. What is PacketFence? PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source Network Access Control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set, PacketFence can be used to effectively secure small to very large heterogeneous networks.
Among the features provided by PacketFence, there are: powerful BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) capabilities multiple enforcement methods including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and hotspot-style built-in network behaviour anomaly detection state-of-the art devices identification with Fingerbank compliance checks for endpoints present on your network integration with various vulnerability scanners, intrusion detection solutions, security agents and firewalls bandwidth accounting for all devices A complete overview of the solution is available from the official website: https://packetfence.org/about.html Changes Since Previous Release New Features New assets, communications and threats visualizations Containerization of most PacketFence services New pfconnector service to connect remote locations to a central or cloud PacketFence server Support for role-based enforcement on Meraki wired devices (#7000) Support to split database read and writes to different MySQL servers (#7055) Support for distributed database reads in cluster using ProxySQL Initial Linode IaaS and PacketFence Connector documentation (#7152) Enhancements Unified service store module allowing control of both local and cluster members services Sign a CSR from the PacketFence PKI Added ability to use the MariaDB database or Redis to store the api-frontend tokens Adjust logs for containerized and non-containerized services (#7043) Allow to enabled/disable processing bandwidth accounting (#6934) Sophos VPN support Automatically display mandatory fields in email/sponsor activation emails (#7069) Detect CLI access from Dell N1500 switches (#7070) Deprecate /api/v1/config/fixpermissions and /api/v1/config/checkup Update monit email (#7012) Monit sender address configurable from the admin GUI Full UTF-8 support in the PacketFence database Added MySQL compatibility Added CSV import to switch groups Simplify cluster upgrades (#7180) Bug Fixes Only provide the unregdate action if access_duration is not defined for the local source (#6925) Clone switch template with correct ID (#6941) Add time to the available template switch variables (#6952) Only trigger the node discover security event in the context of RADIUS and pfdhcplistener (#4987) Use TLS 1.2 to communicate with Intune servers (#7021) Align Apache timeout with captive_portal.request_timeout (#7037) Return VIP in DHCP requests if dns_on_vip_only is enabled (#7035) Replace LF by CRLF at end of emails sent by PacketFence (SMS email has "Bare Line Feed Characters" Status code: 550 5.6.11 #5380) The User-Name value in an EAP-TTLS PAP reply will always be the identity of the inner-tunnel (#7017) Multi-line entries in "Role by access list" are returned as a string (#6791) Respect the time of the expiration date of the password (#7003) Monitoring scripting key is not installed correctly when performing an ISO installation (#6965) Set the database location to the system Local timezone (golang) Add missing translations to the captival portal Fix Trapeze Deauth issue Fix the wrong encoding of special char in the REST call to PacketFence (use base64) See https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/compare/v11.2.0...v12.0.0 for the complete change log. See the Upgrade guide for notes about upgrading: https://packetfence.org/doc/PacketFence_Upgrade_Guide.html Getting PacketFence PacketFence is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such, you are free to download and try it by either getting the new release or by getting the sources: https://packetfence.org/download.html Documentation about the installation and configuration of PacketFence is also available: https://packetfence.org/support/index.html#/documentation How Can I Help? PacketFence is a collaborative effort in order to create the best Free and Open Source NAC solution. There are multiple ways you can contribute to the project: Documentation reviews, enhancements and translations Feature requests or by sharing your ideas Participate in the discussion on mailing lists (https://packetfence.org/support/index.html#/community) Patches for bugs or enhancements Provide new translations of remediation pages Getting Support For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing to supp...@inverse.ca You can also fill our online form (https://inverse.ca/#contact) and a representative from Inverse will contact you. Inverse offers professional services to organizations willing to secure their wired and wireless networks with the PacketFence solution.
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