by Neal Hartsell on June 21, 2019
The Impact of Hardware Architecture and Software Netgate has a popular set of secure networking appliances ranging from the SG-1100 to the XG-1541. Buyers can quickly and easily differentiate them on the basis of physical interconnect, CPU, and price. But, there is another purchase factor that is less obvious, yet quite important. That factor is the product’s internal architecture. You...
Read Full Postby Neal Hartsell on May 31, 2019
Today, Netgate® announces the availability of TNSR Release 19.05. We’ve been slammed with customer engagement activity since Release 19.02 back in February - and those engagements have given us strong insight into how we need to buttress the product to continue its leadership in moving FD.io’s Vector Packet Processing (VPP) strength from open-source, packet processing ‘project’ software to battle-ready enterprise...
Read Full Postby Steve Beaver on May 29, 2019
If you are one of our 400+ pfSense® translators, we want to make you aware of an important change. pfSense documentation is being translated into more than 50 languages - with many already incorporated into pfSense - in support of more than one million installations deployed on literally every continent, and in every vertical market space. This list of languages...
Read Full Postby Jim Pingle on May 20, 2019
We are pleased to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.4.4-p3, now available for new installations and upgrades! pfSense software version 2.4.4-p3 is a maintenance release, bringing a number of security enhancements as well as a handful of fixes for issues present in the 2.4.4-p2 release. pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 updates and installation images are available now! To see a complete...
Read Full Postby Neal Hartsell on March 18, 2019
The TNSR journey continues. Two weeks ago, we announced the arrival of TNSR Business, a companion product to TNSR Enterprise. Both products now have expanded feature sets owing to our latest TNSR software release, 19.02. Here are the release highlights: Open Source Infrastructure: We’ve updated the code base to incorporate the latest poll mode drivers for Vector Packet Processing (VPP),...
Read Full Postby Jim Pingle on March 18, 2019
We are excited to announce public availability of development snapshots for pfSense software version 2.5.0! These images are now available to download from the snapshots server. pfSense software version 2.5.0 is based on FreeBSD 12.0, which also brings in OpenSSL 1.1.1a. The new version of FreeBSD includes newer drivers, improvements to ARM support, pf, carp, UFS, ZFS, Amazon EC2, NTP,...
Read Full Postby Neal Hartsell on February 27, 2019
Today, Netgate announced its newest software product, TNSR Business. TNSR Business is a companion offer to TNSR Enterprise, first released in June 2018. TNSR Business is a key step in the fulfillment of our vision: fast, secure, and affordable movement of information is a right for everyone. To make that possible, we had to embark on a new journey -...
Read Full Postby Dennis Smith on February 22, 2019
Last year the US Government imposed tariffs on a variety of imported goods from China, including a number of hardware sub-components we use in our products. The tariffs were scheduled to increase to 25 percent on January 1, 2019, but that was delayed and is now expected to go into effect on March 2, 2019. Should this increase take effect,...
Read Full Postby Doug McIntire on February 15, 2019
We have incorporated fixes for some recently identified vulnerabilities, specifically: NGINX: CVE-2018-16843, CVE-2018-16844, and CVE-2018-16845 libzmq4: CVE-2019-6250 curl: CVE-2018-16890, CVE-2019-3822, and CVE-2019-3823 As always, take a backup of the firewall configuration prior to any major change to the firewall. To incorporate these security fixes you will need access to the operating system shell. You can do that by using either...
Read Full Postby Jim Pingle on January 07, 2019
We are excited to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.4.4-p2, now available for upgrades! pfSense software version 2.4.4-p2 is a maintenance release, adding support for our new SG-1100 product as well as a handful of fixes for issues present in the 2.4.4-p1 release. To see a complete list of changes and find more detail, see the Release Notes....
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