PacketFence 13.1 introduces cloud-ready NTLM authentication without domain joins, Apache Kafka integration for flow reporting, and ACL precreation capabilities.
New Features
New NTLM authentication service eliminating domain join requirements
ACL precreation capabilities for individual and all switches
Apache Kafka integration for flows reporting
Complete pfqueue rewrite in Go language
Enhancements
- RADIUS proxy configuration documentation improvements
- Node import now supports IPv4 addresses
- TCP flags parameter from role configuration added to ACL for Cisco devices
- Azure AD EAP-TLS machine authentication documentation
- Fingerbank Perl client integrated into PacketFence source
- PKI improvements including CSR generation and certificate resignation
Bug Fixes
- Fixed RADIUS request encoding in base64 and Redis storage
- Improved error handling for calling station parsing in pfacct
- Added MariaDB to OOM handling list
- Docker proxy configuration support
- Corrected password of the day generation
- Restored missing thread support in radiusd
PacketFence 13.1 brings significant cloud-readiness improvements, most notably a new NTLM authentication service that eliminates the need for domain joins, making PacketFence more suitable for cloud deployments.
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Release Info
- Version
- 13.1
- Released
- Jan 17, 2024
- Type
- Minor