What's new in PacketFence ZEN 4.0.0
May 10, 2013
- This version introduces a brand new modern, fast, and responsive Web administrative interface.
- It also simplifies the definition of authentication sources in one place and allows dynamic computation of roles.
- The portal profiles can now be entirely managed from the Web interface, simplifying their definitions and eliminating possible configuration mistakes.
- Using a centralized caching system, configuration is now propagated instantaneously, with no downtime required.
New in PacketFence ZEN 3.3.1 (Apr 18, 2012)
- This version is a virtual machine built with PacketFence 3.3.1.
- It has Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) support for many network vendors.
- Guests can now pre-register in advance or have their network access sponsored.
- Inline enforcement has been simplified, and many new improvements or fixes have been integrated.
New in PacketFence ZEN 3.1.0 (Dec 24, 2011)
- Statement of Health (SoH) support for reliable client-side policy compliance, detection of rogue DHCP Servers through routers, RADIUS Change of Authorization (RFC3576) support for reliable and fast authorization changes, new charts in Web Admin, wireless profile provisioning for iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices, SNMP traps overload protection, improved captive portal detection on Mac OS X Lion and mobile devices, and support for stacked Cisco 3750 switches. There are also the usual minor performance optimizations and several bugfixes.
New in PacketFence ZEN 3.0.3 (Nov 22, 2011)
- A minor release focused on important fixes but with some enhancements.
- There are performance improvements, Cisco 6500 switch support, better support for the HP Procurve 5400, translation improvements, new add-on tools, and better documentation.
- There are cosmetic changes in the Web Admin, fixes for some network device problems, several inline enforcement improvements, and handling of some captive portal corner cases.
New in PacketFence ZEN 3.0.2 (Oct 25, 2011)
- This minor release focused on small improvements and fixes, including some security fixes.
- Enhancements included Trapeze hardware support, support for wireless devices in bridge mode, and guest management options put behind configurable values.
- There were several inline enforcement and guest management fixes, changes to default firewall rules, fixes for long-standing issues with the pie charts in the Web admin, and several other minor bugfixes.
New in PacketFence ZEN 3.0.0 (Sep 22, 2011)
- It has a redesigned captive portal, complete guest management including self-registration of devices by email activation or SMS, and pre-registered guest creation by administrators.
- It has a new feature to secure network access on unmanageable (consumer) devices (so-called inline enforcement).
- Bandwidth tracking with RADIUS accounting, RHEL / CentOS 6 support, and several usability improvements are in as well.
- Several things that annoyed the developers but that involved breaking changes have been fixed.
New in PacketFence ZEN 2.1.0 (Mar 9, 2011)
- PacketFence ZEN 2.1.0 is built from PacketFence 2.1.0, which included new hardware support (Avaya, Cisco, and Nortel).
- Easier startup error messages and configuration verification in the Web Administration panel.
- Important bugfixes related to Linux Desktop support, error handling, VoIP support, and device auto-registration.
- A new Brazilian Portuguese translation.
New in PacketFence ZEN 2.0.1 (Feb 3, 2011)
- This is a minor release bringing new hardware support, a couple of enhancements and bug fixes.
New in PacketFence ZEN 2.0.0 (Dec 17, 2010)
- All the upstream changes from PacketFence v2.0.0 have been integrated, together with operation system updates.
- The deployment procedure for VMWare ESX and Workstation/Fusion has been simplified.
New in PacketFence ZEN 1.8.7 (Jan 8, 2010)
- Improvements of PacketFence 1.8.7 (including a security fix)
- Updated the base operating system with all available security updates
New in PacketFence ZEN 1.8.2 (May 26, 2009)
- enhanced integration of expire_mode and VLAN isolation (thanks to Maikel van der Roest)
- added many tests using Test::More (in the t subdirectory)
- correct process ID is now written into pid file by pfmon and pfredirect
- adjusted dependency checks in installer and the RPM spec file
- fixed SNMPv3 createUser command
- better handling of non-english installations
- removed unused icons and HTML files from web admin GUI
- renamed passive mode into arp mode in configurator templates
New in PacketFence ZEN 1.8.1 (Mar 11, 2009)
- Switches and Violations can now be configured from the CLI and from the Web interface.
- This release also adds push and pull commands for the configuration files.
- The remediation pages are now internationalized.
- There are several other small enhancements and bugfixes.
New in PacketFence ZEN 1.8.0 (Jan 29, 2009)
- Major performance improvements were made in pfcmd and the Web administrative interface.
- The Web interface was redesigned.
- Support for SSH CLI sessions on Cisco switches was added along with support for SNMP version 3.
- Support for categories of nodes was added.
- A view on switches.conf was added to the Web administrative interface.
New in PacketFence ZEN 1.7.5 (Dec 8, 2008)
- This release adds support for the stacked Nortel BayStack 5520, Enterasys SecureStack C2, Cisco Controller 4400, and 3COM SS4500.
New in PacketFence ZEN 1.7.4 (Oct 28, 2008)
- This release adds support for the Cisco Aironet 1250.
- It disables node expiration by default. VLAN isolation code has been adapted to support Nessus Scan without any VLAN change, and to support "Skip Registration".
- The JavaScript popup on the release page has been replaced with DHTML.
- The service entry for snmptrapd has been disabled.
New in PacketFence ZEN 1.7.3 (Sep 30, 2008)
- added support for Dlink DES3526 (contributed by Treker Chen)
- added support for HP Procurve 2500
- added support for HP Procurve 4100
- added trap community configuration parameter
- added support for LinkUp/LinkDown traps on HP Procurve switches
- unified pfcmd service and pfcmd control
- replaced bin/pfwatcher with pfcmd service pf watch
- added authorized ips variable to each interface to customize IPTables rules
- added functionality to reset switch ports in case of desaster