PacketFence 4.0 in major release henceforth available.


Official since May 7, 2013 PacketFence 4.0., brings a brand new web administrative interface, several new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Now new Features include :
  • Brand new Perl-based Web administrative interface using the Catalyst framework
  • New violation actions to set the node's role and deregister it
  • Support for scanning dot1x connections for auto-registration by EAP-Type
  • Support for auto registering dot1x node based of the EAP-Type
  • New searchable MAC Addresses module to query all existing OUI prefixes
  • New advanced search capabilities for nodes and users
  • New memory object caching subsystem for configuration files
  • Ubuntu packages
Regarding improvements we have :
  • Authentication sources can now be managed directly from the GUI
  • Roles (previously called categories) are now computed dynamically using authentication sources
  • Portal profiles and portal pages are now managed from the GUI
  • Fingerprints and User Agents modules are now searchable
  • Translated all remediation pages to French
  • Updated Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish translations
Finally it is recommended to start from scratch and move your customizations and nodes information over to your new installation.
About PacketFence
PacketFence is billed as a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution. It can also be used to secure networks, from small to very large heterogeneous networks.

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