New Features
- New 'Apply violation' bulk action
- The same bulk actions for nodes are now available for users
- New WRIX data management
- Added PacketFence provisioning agent for Android
- Support Hotspot for Cisco WLC and Aruba IAP
- Support for Huawei AC6605 wireless controller
- Support for Enterasys V2110 wireless controller
- Support for Juniper EX2200 and EX4200 switches
- Inline layer 3 support
- New pfbandwidthd daemon for inline layer 3 accounting
- New violation type based on time usage from RADIUS accounting information
- New violation type based on bandwidth usage from pfbandwidthd information
- New Mirapay online payment as a billing option
- Billing tiers can now be defined with a real usage duration (instead of simply a timeout)
- Billing: A confirmation email is sent when purchasing a tier
- New status page with options to extend the network access (when billing is enabled with access duration)
and to unregister any node associated to the current user - Integration of mod_qos in the Apache configuration of the captive portal
- New pfcmd "cache" command
- New pfcmd "configreload" command
Enhancements
- Mandatory fields during registration are now configured per portal profile
- Expanded fields for person field
- Allow pfcmd error/warning/success messages colors to be configurable
- Allow rules on username for null authentication sources
- Landing page of Web admin interface now depends on the user's access rights
- Reevaluate access when changing the role of multiple nodes (#1757)
- Each portal profile can now use its own set of locales
- Added a new URI filter for portal profiles
- Switches configuration page is now paginated
- LLDP support for 3Com 4000 Series
- Multiple DNS server in the network configuration
- Allow alias interface as captive portal
- MAC Authentication support for Enterasys D2 switch
- Added support for JSON-RPC and msgpack RPC over HTTP for webservices
- Made msgpack the default RPC for RADIUS
- Improved performance of webservices by preloading Perl modules
- Regexp filter for LDAP source is now case-insensitive
- Improved maintenance database script
- Preserve and restore the URL fragment when the web session expires in Web admin (#1780)
- Logging is now separated and configurable for each service
- Added missing 'redirect_url' paramater when editing a violation in the Web admin
- Complete rewrite of captive portal as a Catalyst application
- Added a section documenting eduroam support to the Admin guide
- Controller IP address can be determined dynamically
- Added a file backing for the cache to decrease cache misses
- Allow advanced search of nodes by OS type (#1790)
- The PF RPC client can be configured in the conf/radiusd/radiusd.conf
- Added PacketFence RADIUS dictionary
Bug Fixes
- Fixed retrieval of ifIndex in Cisco Catalyst 2950 module
- Fixed Snort and Suricata services management
- Fixed issue when saving a users search in Web admin
- Fixed JavaScript error with IE8 on Web admin users page
- Fixed Web admin access restrictions for users and nodes creation
- Fixed SQL query of connection types report in Web admin
- Fixed blank page with WISPr on OS X
- Fixed nodes simple search by IP address
- Fixed access reevaluation when changing the status of a pending node
- Fixed network access for users with no "set role" action (#1778)
- Fixed conversion of wildcards to regular expressions in domains passthroughs
- Fixed display of last IP address of nodes when end_time is in the future
- Fixed XSS issues in Web admin
- Fixed extractSsid for Cisco Aironet and Cisco Aironet WDS