All releases of PacketFence ZEN
Release Notes: This release introduces a brand new modern, fast, and responsive Web administrative interface. It also simplifies the definition of authentication sources in one place and allows dynamic computation of roles. The portal profiles can now be entirely managed from the Web interface, simplifying their definitions and eliminating possible configuration mistakes. Using a centralized caching system, configuration is now propagated instantaneously, with no downtime required.
Release Notes: This release is a virtual machine built with PacketFence 3.3.1. It has Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) support for many network vendors. Guests can now pre-register in advance or have their network access sponsored. Inline enforcement has been simplified, and many new improvements or fixes have been integrated.
Release Notes: This release is a virtual machine built with PacketFence 3.0. It has a redesigned captive portal, complete guest management including self-registration of devices by email activation or SMS, and pre-registered guest creation by administrators. It has a new feature to secure network access on unmanageable (consumer) devices (so-called inline enforcement). Bandwidth tracking with RADIUS accounting, RHEL / CentOS 6 support, and several usability improvements are in as well. Several things that annoyed the developers but that involved breaking changes have been fixed.
Release Notes: PacketFence ZEN 2.1.0 is built from PacketFence 2.1.0, which included new hardware support (Avaya, Cisco, and Nortel). Easier startup error messages and configuration verification in the Web Administration panel. Important bugfixes related to Linux Desktop support, error handling, VoIP support, and device auto-registration. A new Brazilian Portuguese translation.
Release Notes: A minor release bringing new hardware support (Extricom, Xirrus, and Meru) and several enhancements including improved help and SSID identification. Many bugfixes, including fixes for Snort integration, first-run configuration problems, environments with IP-Helper and isolation, and better handling of some corner cases.
Release Notes: All the upstream changes from PacketFence v2.0.0 have been integrated, together with operation system updates. The deployment procedure for VMWare ESX and Workstation/Fusion has been simplified.
Release Notes: This release includes all the changes in the upstream PacketFence 1.8.7 (including a security fix). Operating system packages were also updated.
Release Notes: This release includes all the changes in upstream PacketFence releases 1.8.5 and 1.8.6. Changes specific to the ZEN release: zip is used instead of tar.bz2 for greater accessibility, and the ZEN image uses the PacketFence yum repository so you can easily upgrade to the latest release.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. It focuses on stability and includes many bugfixes and several small enhancements. It's now possible to generate violations based on MAC vendors (to ban a device category) or on the Web browser's User-Agent information (to ban a browser). You can now specify a VLAN for violations (a node with this violation will be put in the specified VLAN). It also includes support for new networking equipment: Aruba Networks wireless controllers, Foundry (Brocade), FastIron 4802, and 3COM 4200G.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. It focuses on stability and includes many bugfixes and several small enhancements. In particular, it enhances the integration between VLAN isolation and node registration expiration, contains improved dependency checks both in the installer.pl script and in the RPM spec file, and better handles being installed on non-English locales. Many automatic tests have been added (using Test::More)
