Endian Firewall Community Update 2.4.1

The update for Endian Firewall Community to version 2.4.1 is now available! This release introduces the following new features:

• General

  • Japanese is now a fully supported language
  • SHA1 is now used instead of MD5 as default hash algorithm wherepossible (#1796)
  • A web console has been added
  • The system console has been replaced by efw-shell

• System

  • Kernel has been updated to LTS version 2.6.32.24
  • Amavisd-new has been updated to version 2.6.4
  • Snort has been updated to version 2.8.6.1
  • Template language has been switched to mako to speed up EMI
  • Hooks that will be triggered on shutdown have been added to /etc/rc.d/halt  (#2875)
  • "All system logs" has been added to the log viewer and is now set as default (#549)
  • netstatus.cgi has been rewritten to recognize NICs that are faster than 100Mb/s

• DNS Proxy

  • Randomized mirror usage and switching from cron to anacron to decrease the load on malwaredomains.com (#3113)

• SMTP Proxy

  • Support for Japanese emails has been added to the spam filter
  • RBL lists have been updated (#2020)
  • File extension list has been updated
  • Spam subject is now optional (#2781)
  • Support for 7z archives has been added

• ClamAV Antivirus

  • ClamAV has been updated to version 0.96.3
  • Bytecode compiled patterns have been enabled (#2882)
  • Google safebrowsing signatures have been enabled

• Firewall

  • BADTCP filtering can now be disabled (#3152)
  • A logic for classifying bridged OpenVPN traffic in a dynamic way has been added
  • An OpenVPN interface has been added to the firewall GUIs in case of the OpenVPN server not being bridged

• OpenVPN Server

  • It is now possible to select to which zone the server should be bridged
  • It is now possible not to bridge the server but to run it in a separate subnet on its tap interface

• IPSEC

  • Openswan has been updated to version 2.6.29

REMOVED FEATURES

• SIP Proxy