This release introduces new process management, rendering boot time to half as long as before, minimizes the footprint by improving resource management, stabilizes the project by fixing lots of bugs, and adds trusted timestamping using OpenTSA. Upgrades from Endian Firewall Community 2.4.1 to version 2.5 will be available by the end of January 2012.
A Web console has been added. The OpenVPN server can now run in its own zone. Japanese spam mails are now filtered as well. The kernel has been upgraded to long term support version 2.6.32.24. Snort, Amavis, ClamAV, and Openswan have been updated.
This release introduces several new features such as easier procedures to switch to the Enterprise edition and to migrate older versions to EFW 2.4, a new kernel, improved IPsec, and a new GUI for the destination NAT/Port Forwarding module. In addition, there are many bugfixes.
This release includes many features that were previously available only to users of the Enterprise release, as well as some completely new features. These features are scheduled backups, backups to USB sticks, a real-time dashboard, email notifications, HTTP proxy time-based ACLs and user/group-based content filtering, an intrusion prevention system, extended DNAT, bandwidth management, and support for SNMP, VLAN, and policy routing.
This release includes many features that were previously available
only to users of the Enterprise release, as well as some completely
new features. These features are: scheduled backups, backups to USB
sticks, a dashboard, email notifications, HTTP Proxy time-based ACLs and
user/group-based content filtering, IPS, extended DNAT, real QoS, and
support for SNMP, VLAN, and Policy Routing. Please remember that this is
not the final release. Do not use it in production environments unless
you know what you are doing.
