The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 4.0. This is a major release bringing a brand new web administrative interface, several shiny new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use.

Packet Fence 4.0 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 - absolutely no downtime required!

Here are the glory details:

New Features

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

Enhancements

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

See the ChangeLog file for the complete list of changes and the UPGRADE.asciidoc file for notes about upgrading.

Important upgrade notice

Upgrading an old version of Packet Fence to v4 will be quite an endeavor. While itâs entirely possible if done meticulously, we suggest you start from scratch and move your customizations and nodes information over to your new installation. Read the UPGRADE.ascii file if you consider upgrading an existing system.