

To avoid breaking any custom software IPFire users may run on their installations, OpenSSL 1.1.1's files remain untouched on existing installations until the release of Core Update 176. Core Update 175 updates OpenSSL to version 3.1.1, for which some work under the hood was necessary, such as ensuring all dependent packages were ready for using OpenSSL's API, which has changed from the 1.1.x series. IPFire makes heavy use of this cryptography library, which is why keeping it up to date (without causing any interference to existing installations) is an important task for the development team. The forthcoming update, IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 175, is available for testing! Most noteworthy, it updates OpenSSL to the 3.1.0 branch, features a kernel update as well as other package updates and a variety of bug fixes are also included in this update. Please help testing this update, especially if you are using exotic hardware, uncommon network setups, or add-ons, and provide feedback - which is absolutely essential to us.


udev rules for LVM volumes have been fixed, allowing for configured LVM volumes to start properly on boot again ( #13151).While editing OpenVPN static IP address pools, spaces are now handled correctly again ( #13136).An edge case related to bug #13138, which caused IPsec root/host certificate generation to fail on the first attempt only, has been fixed.It features a toolchain and package updates (among the security-relevant of them are Intel microcodes), brings the latest batch of bug fixes. The next update, IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 176, is available for testing.
