Download IPCop 1.4.17 / 1.4.18

Yesterday a new version of IPCop was released. IPCop is a Linux firewall distribution that primarily targets home users and the SoHo environment. This time so much has changed that the developers were forced to split the update in two. A lot of people use an old computer to run IPCop and it often contains a small hard drive, with only a limited amount of free space. The complete list of changes is too long to list here, so we hope to suffice with a link to the page where they to find to be. Below is a small excerpt from the announcement:

IPCop 1.4.17 / 1.4.18 has been released

Update is splitted in two part to accommodate free space limitation related to the numerous new packages added since the recent releases.

A way to recover some free spaces has been created, allowing to select one of the two ‘kernel type’ installed ( monoprocessor or smp kernel).

After 1.4.17 installation, refresh the update page. If you see a red section on disk usage, you need to select a ‘kernel type’. That will free space on /dev/root and /boot partitions.

You will need too on next reboot to select again the kernel on the grub boot menu if another line than the first was selected.

Limit for red warning is 20 MB free on /dev/root and 1 MB on /boot.

Any scsi disk with two kernel versions (2.4.31 and 2.4.34) and 2 kernel types has filled the /boot partition. Starting from 1.4.18, /boot partition size will be increased from 8 to 10 MB.

Some changes has been introduced since rc2 related to ntp (fix ntp user with ntpdate), squid upgraded to 2.6.STABLE17, timezone upgraded to tzdata2007i, snort rules permissions again.

If you have installed 1.4.17rc / 1.4.18rc2, you need now to apply 1.4.18 final update to take the last changes and you could now do that from web interface.

Most of the work made on 1.4.17 / 1.4.18 are bug fixes and update interface changes.

As usual, this version can be installed as an update from previous v1.4.x versions or with a ready-to-go ISO or usb bootable images for a fresh install.[break]