PacketFence 12.0 is a major release featuring containerization of most services, new assets/communications/threats visualizations, pfconnector service, and database read/write splitting.
New Features
Containerization of most PacketFence services
New assets, communications and threats visualizations
New pfconnector service for remote location connectivity
Support for role-based enforcement on Meraki wired devices
Database read/write split to different MySQL servers via ProxySQL
Enhancements
- Unified service store module for local and cluster member control
- CSR signing capability from PacketFence PKI
- API-frontend tokens stored in MariaDB or Redis
- Bandwidth accounting processing toggle option
- Sophos VPN support added
- Full UTF-8 support in database
- MySQL compatibility achieved
Bug Fixes
- Unregdate action provided only when appropriate
- Corrected switch template cloning with correct ID
- Improved node discover security event triggering
- Enforced TLS 1.2 for Intune communication
- Aligned Apache timeout with captive portal request timeout
- Corrected email line feed characters (CRLF)
PacketFence 12.0 represents a major architectural evolution with containerization, improved visualization tools, and the new pfconnector service for managing remote network locations.
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Release Info
- Version
- 12.0
- Released
- Sep 14, 2022
- Type
- Major