A few other tools and technologies have been implemented in this version

Feb 4, 2013 09:35 GMT  ·  By

Michael Tremer, developer for the ipfire.org team, has announced IPFire 2.13 RC1, a new development release of the popular Linux-based firewall distribution.

This latest release, IPFire 2.13 RC1 is the next big release of IPFire and comes with a huge amount of changes.

Highlights of IPFire 2.13 RC1:

• Support for the ARM architecture has been implemented; • strongswan 5 has been added (strongswan is the software, running the IPSec VPN connections); • 5 GHz Wireless LAN is now available; • CoDel tool has been implemented in the distribution.

A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official announcement. Download IPFire 2.13 RC1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.