github inverse-inc/packetfence packetfence-5.6.0
PacketFence v5.6.0

latest releases: v14.0.0, stable, v13.2.0...
8 years ago

New Features

  • New RADIUS auditing report allows troubleshooting from the GUI
  • The email authorization source now allows to set roles based on the email used to register
  • New switch groups now allows to assign settings to multiple switches at once
  • DHCP filters now allow arbitrary rules to perform actions based on DHCP fingerprinting
  • Cisco switches login access can now be authenticated through PacketFence
  • The filter engine configuration can now be edited through the admin GUI

Enhancements

  • New dedicated search feature for violations in the nodes panel
  • New pfcmd pfqueue command allows managing the queue from the command line
  • New option to specify the authentication source to use depending on the RADIUS realm
  • Upgrade Config::IniFiles to allow faster loading of configuration files
  • Performance improvements to the filtering engine by avoiding unnecessary database lookups
  • New columns bypass_vlan and bypass_role are allowed to be import for nodes
  • Service start/stop order can now be configured through the admin GUI
  • Pagination can now be defined by the user in the admin GUI search results
  • The pfdns service now forks to process multiple requests in parallel
  • Added configurable timeout for send/receive operations on the OMAPI socket
  • The authorization process will now test if the role changed before reevaluating access
  • New option to add date based VLAN filter condition (is before date, is after date)
  • pfconfig backend can now be cleared via pfcmd
  • Improved RADIUS accounting handling for better performance

Bug Fixes (bug Id is denoted with #id)

  • Remove old entries in ipset session
  • Always reevaluate the access if the order come from the admin gui (#1056)
  • Portal profiles templates are now properly synced between members of a cluster (#942)
  • Process requests properly when running a pfdhcplistener on an interface that has networks with and without dhcpd activated
  • Violation trigger from web admin will now override grace period (#1028)
  • Fix queue task counters out of sync when a task expires
  • Reworked the configuration backends to prevent a race condition of the configuration namespaces in active/active cluster (#1067)
  • Define each internal network to NAT instead of a global rule when passthroughs are enabled (#1118)

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