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				<h3>News</h3>

				<p>
					This is the news archive of ipfire.org.
				</p>
				<p>
					<a href="#news-12">2008/11/08 - IPFire 2.3 Final</a><br />
					<a href="#news-11">2008/10/26 - IPFire 2.3 RC 1</a><br />
					<a href="#news-10">2008/10/13 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 5</a><br />
					<a href="#news-09">2008/10/11 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 4</a><br />
					<a href="#news-08">2008/08/25 - One year passed - IPFire 2.1</a><br />
					<a href="#news-07">2008/08/22 - Presentation of our project on kbarthel.de</a><br />
					<a href="#news-06">2008/08/20 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 3</a><br />
					<a href="#news-05">2008/08/16 - Core Update 16</a><br />
					<a href="#news-04">2008/07/30 - LUG Lünnen</a><br />
					<a href="#news-03">2008/07/24 - Core Update 15</a><br />
					<a href="#news-02">2008/07/24 - RSS Feed</a><br />
					<a href="#news-01">2007/11/08 - IPFire 2.1 FINAL</a>
				</p>

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				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-12"></a>
					<h3>2008/11/08 - IPFire 2.3 Final</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Get it quick</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the final version of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						<br />
						Major changes since the first version 2.1 in Oktober 2007
						<br />
						<li class="first">-DNS-Securityupdate and many more packet updates</li>
						<li>-Enhancement of the packet manager</li>
						<li>-Improvement of the Quality-of-Service rules - Presets for QoS</li>
						<li>-Adjustable Firewall Logging</li>
						<li>-Kernel-Modules for better hardware suport</li>
						<li>-Change the system statistic to „collectd"</li>
						<li>-Better disk handling (S.M.A.R.T. and Standby)</li>
						<li>-Status- and Serviceview in the Webinterface</li>
						<li>-Proxy and Redirector now work more dynamic</li>
						<br />
						<br />
						In addition the 2.3 will change the following things
						<br />
						<li class="first">-Kernel update to Linux-2.6.25.19</li>
						<li>Update of many more packets (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, Squid, Snort, collectd, ntfs-3g, Openswan, Updatexlrator, iptables, l7protocols)</li>
						<li>-With severall Atheros Chips IPFire is able to work as Wireless Access Point</li>
						<li>-Better support of UMTS-3G-Modems</li>
						<li>-Use of tmpfs to reduce disk reads and writes</li>
						<li>-Better hardware monitoring by the use of lmsensors</li>
						<li>-Vnstat Traffic-Accounting replaces ipac-ng</li>
						<br />
						<br />
						The IPFire Team
					</p>

				</div>

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				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-11"></a>
					<h3>2008/10/26 - IPFire 2.3 RC 1</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Check it out</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the first Release Candidate of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
						<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,812.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
						<br />
						<br />
						The IPFire Team
					</p>

				</div>

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				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-10"></a>
					<h3>2008/10/13 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 5</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Check it out</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the fifth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
						<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,788.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
						<br />
						We finally had to do bigger changes and though: This is beta #5!
						<br />
						<br />
						The IPFire Team
					</p>

				</div>

				<br class="clear" />

				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-09"></a>
					<h3>2008/10/11 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 4</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Check it out</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the fourth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
						<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,783.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
						<br />
						We hope that many of you will install this new version and give some feedback, so were able to have
						a well tested version and go quickly forward to the Release Candidates.
						<br />
						<br />
						Maniac for the team of IPFire
					</p>

				</div>

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				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-08"></a>
					<h3>2008/08/25 - One year passed - IPFire 2.1</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">"The best is yet to come."</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						It is almost a year ago, we´ve finalized the 2.1 and started the BETA process for
						the final release. After two hard months 2.1 was released in november 2007. Here are
						some very interisting numbers to show the growing interest for IPFire and its ongoing
						developement.
						<br />
						Stats can be found here
						<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats1.png" target="_blank">Stats 1</a>
						<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats2.png" target="_blank">Stats 2</a>
						<br />
						<br />
						We want to thank all of you and hope IPFire will spread more and more
						<br />
						<br />
						Maniacikarus for the IPFire-Team
					</p>

				</div>

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					<a name="news-07"></a>
					<h3>2008/08/22 - Presentation of our project on kbarthel.de</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">"Press-Alt! - Die Zeitung von gestern..." Otto Waalkes</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						Kim Barthel published on his blog a text about the project ipfire itself.
						<br />
						You may view the full (german, sorry) article on
						<a href="http://blog.kbarthel.de/?p=148" target="_blank">blog.kbarthel.de</a>!
						<br />
						<br />
						Thank you, Kim!
						<br />
						<br />
						Michael
					</p>

				</div>

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				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-06"></a>
					<h3>2008/08/20 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 3</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Check it out</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day, we released the third beta version of IPFire 2.3.
						<br />
						Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
						<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,709.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
						<br />
						We hope that many of you will install this new version and give some feedback.
						<br />
						<br />
						Michael for the team of IPFire
					</p>

				</div>

				<br class="clear" />

				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-05"></a>
					<h3>2008/08/16 - Core Update 16</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">It's update time</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Hello everybody,</b><br />
						today we are going to release Core Update number 16, the following changes were made:
						<br />
						Fixed Squid init script showing allready started during boot<br />
						Fixed LineQualitiy Graph not working for some gateways not responding to ping request<br />
						Fixed Outgoing FW Logging when using Mode 1<br />
						Fixed Urlfilter autoupdate url has changed<br />
						Fixed redirect wrapper not working as expected<br />
						Fixed smaller CGI issues - for detailed informations see git<br />
						Updated ntfs-3g to current stable<br />
					</p>

				</div>
				
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					<a name="news-04"></a>
					<h3>2008/07/30 - LUG Lünen</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Linux User Group Lünen</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						Today, the linux user group from "Lünen"
						released an article about ipfire.
						<br />
						<a href="http://www.linux-luenen.de/?q=node/15" target="_blank">to the article</a>
						(german)
					</p>

				</div>
				
				<br class="clear" />
				
				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-03"></a>
					<h3>2008/07/24 - Core Update 15</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">It's update time</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Sehr geehrte Community!</b><br />
						Today, we release the core update number 15.
						<br />
						This is an important update because it will fix
						the latest dns vulnerabilities.
						<br />
						<a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/DNS-security-problem-details-released--/111145">Read this for more information.</a>
						<br />
						<span style="color: red;">Please install this update as soon as possible.</span>
					</p>

				</div>
				
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				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-02"></a>
					<h3>2008/07/24 - RSS Feed</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">Subscribe...</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
						This day is the day when the ipfire-project gets its
						own rss feed. This feed is for you, to keep you up on latest
						security updates and releases.
						<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/data/feeds/main-en.rss" target="_blank">http://www.ipfire.org/data/feeds/main-en.rss</a>.
					</p>

				</div>

				<br class="clear" />

				<div class="post">
					<a name="news-01"></a>
					<h3>2007/11/08 - IPFire 2.1 FINAL</h3>
					<ul class="post_info">
						<li class="date">It's there...</li>
					</ul>

					<p>
						<b>Hey Community!</b><br />
						Today is the day we release the final version of ipfire.
						You can get the download of the 2.1
						<a href="downloads.shtml#final">here</a>.
					</p>

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	13	<p>
	14	This is the news archive of ipfire.org.
	15	</p>
	16	<p>
876c9ada M	17	<a href="#news-12">2008/11/08 - IPFire 2.3 Final</a><br />
876c9ada M	18	<a href="#news-11">2008/10/26 - IPFire 2.3 RC 1</a><br />
e1f5c9a9	19	<a href="#news-10">2008/10/13 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 5</a><br />
26d04920	20	<a href="#news-09">2008/10/11 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 4</a><br />
9867f054	21	<a href="#news-08">2008/08/25 - One year passed - IPFire 2.1</a><br />
b41cfec5 MT	22	<a href="#news-07">2008/08/22 - Presentation of our project on kbarthel.de</a><br />
	23	<a href="#news-06">2008/08/20 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 3</a><br />
	24	<a href="#news-05">2008/08/16 - Core Update 16</a><br />
	25	<a href="#news-04">2008/07/30 - LUG Lünnen</a><br />
	26	<a href="#news-03">2008/07/24 - Core Update 15</a><br />
	27	<a href="#news-02">2008/07/24 - RSS Feed</a><br />
	28	<a href="#news-01">2007/11/08 - IPFire 2.1 FINAL</a>
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876c9ada M	33	<div class="post">
	34	<a name="news-12"></a>
	35	<h3>2008/11/08 - IPFire 2.3 Final</h3>
	36	<ul class="post_info">
	37	<li class="date">Get it quick</li>
	38	</ul>
	39
	40	<p>
	41	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	42	This day, we released the final version of IPFire 2.3.
	43	<br />
	44	<br />
	45	Major changes since the first version 2.1 in Oktober 2007
	46	<br />
	47	<li class="first">-DNS-Securityupdate and many more packet updates</li>
	48	<li>-Enhancement of the packet manager</li>
	49	<li>-Improvement of the Quality-of-Service rules - Presets for QoS</li>
	50	<li>-Adjustable Firewall Logging</li>
	51	<li>-Kernel-Modules for better hardware suport</li>
	52	<li>-Change the system statistic to „collectd"</li>
	53	<li>-Better disk handling (S.M.A.R.T. and Standby)</li>
	54	<li>-Status- and Serviceview in the Webinterface</li>
	55	<li>-Proxy and Redirector now work more dynamic</li>
	56	<br />
	57	<br />
	58	In addition the 2.3 will change the following things
	59	<br />
	60	<li class="first">-Kernel update to Linux-2.6.25.19</li>
	61	<li>Update of many more packets (OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, Squid, Snort, collectd, ntfs-3g, Openswan, Updatexlrator, iptables, l7protocols)</li>
	62	<li>-With severall Atheros Chips IPFire is able to work as Wireless Access Point</li>
	63	<li>-Better support of UMTS-3G-Modems</li>
	64	<li>-Use of tmpfs to reduce disk reads and writes</li>
	65	<li>-Better hardware monitoring by the use of lmsensors</li>
	66	<li>-Vnstat Traffic-Accounting replaces ipac-ng</li>
	67	<br />
	68	<br />
	69	The IPFire Team
	70	</p>
	71
	72	</div>
	73
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27be1442 M	76	<div class="post">
	77	<a name="news-11"></a>
	78	<h3>2008/10/26 - IPFire 2.3 RC 1</h3>
	79	<ul class="post_info">
	80	<li class="date">Check it out</li>
	81	</ul>
	82
	83	<p>
	84	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	85	This day, we released the first Release Candidate of IPFire 2.3.
	86	<br />
	87	Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
	88	<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,812.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
	89	<br />
	90	<br />
	91	The IPFire Team
	92	</p>
	93
	94	</div>
	95
	96	<br class="clear" />
	97
e1f5c9a9 MT	98	<div class="post">
	99	<a name="news-10"></a>
	100	<h3>2008/10/13 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 5</h3>
	101	<ul class="post_info">
	102	<li class="date">Check it out</li>
	103	</ul>
	104
	105	<p>
	106	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	107	This day, we released the fifth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
	108	<br />
	109	Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
	110	<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,788.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
	111	<br />
	112	We finally had to do bigger changes and though: This is beta #5!
	113	<br />
	114	<br />
	115	The IPFire Team
	116	</p>
	117
	118	</div>
	119
	120	<br class="clear" />
	121
26d04920 MT	122	<div class="post">
	123	<a name="news-09"></a>
	124	<h3>2008/10/11 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 4</h3>
	125	<ul class="post_info">
	126	<li class="date">Check it out</li>
	127	</ul>
	128
	129	<p>
	130	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	131	This day, we released the fourth beta version of IPFire 2.3.
	132	<br />
	133	Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
	134	<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,783.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
	135	<br />
	136	We hope that many of you will install this new version and give some feedback, so were able to have
	137	a well tested version and go quickly forward to the Release Candidates.
	138	<br />
	139	<br />
	140	Maniac for the team of IPFire
	141	</p>
	142
	143	</div>
	144
	145	<br class="clear" />
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9867f054 MT	147	<div class="post">
	148	<a name="news-08"></a>
	149	<h3>2008/08/25 - One year passed - IPFire 2.1</h3>
	150	<ul class="post_info">
	151	<li class="date">"The best is yet to come."</li>
	152	</ul>
	153
	154	<p>
165d0566	155	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
9867f054 MT	156	It is almost a year ago, we´ve finalized the 2.1 and started the BETA process for
	157	the final release. After two hard months 2.1 was released in november 2007. Here are
	158	some very interisting numbers to show the growing interest for IPFire and its ongoing
	159	developement.
	160	<br />
	161	Stats can be found here
	162	<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats1.png" target="_blank">Stats 1</a>
	163	<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/images/Stats2.png" target="_blank">Stats 2</a>
	164	<br />
	165	<br />
	166	We want to thank all of you and hope IPFire will spread more and more
	167	<br />
	168	<br />
	169	Maniacikarus for the IPFire-Team
	170	</p>
	171
	172	</div>
	173
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9867f054	178	<h3>2008/08/22 - Presentation of our project on kbarthel.de</h3>
b41cfec5 MT	179	<ul class="post_info">
	180	<li class="date">"Press-Alt! - Die Zeitung von gestern..." Otto Waalkes</li>
	181	</ul>
	182
	183	<p>
	184	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	185	Kim Barthel published on his blog a text about the project ipfire itself.
	186	<br />
	187	You may view the full (german, sorry) article on
	188	<a href="http://blog.kbarthel.de/?p=148" target="_blank">blog.kbarthel.de</a>!
	189	<br />
	190	<br />
	191	Thank you, Kim!
	192	<br />
	193	<br />
	194	Michael
	195	</p>
	196
	197	</div>
	198
	199	<br class="clear" />
	200
	201	<div class="post">
	202	<a name="news-06"></a>
	203	<h3>2008/08/20 - IPFire 2.3 Beta 3</h3>
	204	<ul class="post_info">
	205	<li class="date">Check it out</li>
	206	</ul>
	207
	208	<p>
	209	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
	210	This day, we released the third beta version of IPFire 2.3.
	211	<br />
	212	Further information and a discussion about that is to find in the forum:
	213	<a href="http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,709.0.html" target="_blank">Click!</a>
	214	<br />
	215	We hope that many of you will install this new version and give some feedback.
	216	<br />
	217	<br />
	218	Michael for the team of IPFire
	219	</p>
	220
	221	</div>
	222
	223	<br class="clear" />
	224
	225	<div class="post">
	226	<a name="news-05"></a>
	227	<h3>2008/08/16 - Core Update 16</h3>
	228	<ul class="post_info">
	229	<li class="date">It's update time</li>
	230	</ul>
	231
	232	<p>
	233	<b>Hello everybody,</b><br />
	234	today we are going to release Core Update number 16, the following changes were made:
	235	<br />
	236	Fixed Squid init script showing allready started during boot<br />
	237	Fixed LineQualitiy Graph not working for some gateways not responding to ping request<br />
	238	Fixed Outgoing FW Logging when using Mode 1<br />
	239	Fixed Urlfilter autoupdate url has changed<br />
	240	Fixed redirect wrapper not working as expected<br />
	241	Fixed smaller CGI issues - for detailed informations see git<br />
	242	Updated ntfs-3g to current stable<br />
243	</p>
244
245	</div>
246
247	<br class="clear" />
248
249	<div class="post">
250	<a name="news-04"></a>
251	<h3>2008/07/30 - LUG Lünen</h3>
252	<ul class="post_info">
253	<li class="date">Linux User Group Lünen</li>
254	</ul>
255
256	<p>
257	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
258	Today, the linux user group from "Lünen"
259	released an article about ipfire.
260	<br />
261	<a href="http://www.linux-luenen.de/?q=node/15" target="_blank">to the article</a>
262	(german)
263	</p>
264
265	</div>
266
267	<br class="clear" />
268
269	<div class="post">
270	<a name="news-03"></a>
271	<h3>2008/07/24 - Core Update 15</h3>
272	<ul class="post_info">
273	<li class="date">It's update time</li>
274	</ul>
275
276	<p>
277	<b>Sehr geehrte Community!</b><br />
278	Today, we release the core update number 15.
279	<br />
280	This is an important update because it will fix
281	the latest dns vulnerabilities.
282	<br />
283	<a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/DNS-security-problem-details-released--/111145">Read this for more information.</a>
284	<br />
285	<span style="color: red;">Please install this update as soon as possible.</span>
286	</p>
287
288	</div>
289
290	<br class="clear" />
291
292	<div class="post">
293	<a name="news-02"></a>
294	<h3>2008/07/24 - RSS Feed</h3>
295	<ul class="post_info">
296	<li class="date">Subscribe...</li>
297	</ul>
298
299	<p>
300	<b>Dear Community!</b><br />
301	This day is the day when the ipfire-project gets its
302	own rss feed. This feed is for you, to keep you up on latest
303	security updates and releases.
304	<a href="http://www.ipfire.org/data/feeds/main-en.rss" target="_blank">http://www.ipfire.org/data/feeds/main-en.rss</a>.
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313	<h3>2007/11/08 - IPFire 2.1 FINAL</h3>
314	<ul class="post_info">
315	<li class="date">It's there...</li>
316	</ul>
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319	<b>Hey Community!</b><br />
320	Today is the day we release the final version of ipfire.
321	You can get the download of the 2.1
322	<a href="downloads.shtml#final">here</a>.
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