PacketFence v4.2.0

New Features

• New 'Apply violation' bulk action
• The same bulk actions for nodes are now available for users
• New WRIX data management
• Added PacketFence provisioning agent for Android
• Support Hotspot for Cisco WLC and Aruba IAP
• Support for Huawei AC6605 wireless controller
• Support for Enterasys V2110 wireless controller
• Support for Juniper EX2200 and EX4200 switches
• Inline layer 3 support
• New pfbandwidthd daemon for inline layer 3 accounting
• New violation type based on time usage from RADIUS accounting information
• New violation type based on bandwidth usage from pfbandwidthd information
• New Mirapay online payment as a billing option
• Billing tiers can now be defined with a real usage duration (instead of simply a timeout)
• Billing: A confirmation email is sent when purchasing a tier
• New status page with options to extend the network access (when billing is enabled with access duration)
  and to unregister any node associated to the current user
• Integration of mod_qos in the Apache configuration of the captive portal
• New pfcmd "cache" command
• New pfcmd "configreload" command

Enhancements

• Mandatory fields during registration are now configured per portal profile
• Expanded fields for person field
• Allow pfcmd error/warning/success messages colors to be configurable
• Allow rules on username for null authentication sources
• Landing page of Web admin interface now depends on the user's access rights
• Reevaluate access when changing the role of multiple nodes (#1757)
• Each portal profile can now use its own set of locales
• Added a new URI filter for portal profiles
• Switches configuration page is now paginated
• LLDP support for 3Com 4000 Series
• Multiple DNS server in the network configuration
• Allow alias interface as captive portal
• MAC Authentication support for Enterasys D2 switch
• Added support for JSON-RPC and msgpack RPC over HTTP for webservices
• Made msgpack the default RPC for RADIUS
• Improved performance of webservices by preloading Perl modules
• Regexp filter for LDAP source is now case-insensitive
• Improved maintenance database script
• Preserve and restore the URL fragment when the web session expires in Web admin (#1780)
• Logging is now separated and configurable for each service
• Added missing 'redirect_url' paramater when editing a violation in the Web admin
• Complete rewrite of captive portal as a Catalyst application
• Added a section documenting eduroam support to the Admin guide
• Controller IP address can be determined dynamically
• Added a file backing for the cache to decrease cache misses
• Allow advanced search of nodes by OS type (#1790)
• The PF RPC client can be configured in the conf/radiusd/radiusd.conf
• Added PacketFence RADIUS dictionary

Bug Fixes

• Fixed retrieval of ifIndex in Cisco Catalyst 2950 module
• Fixed Snort and Suricata services management
• Fixed issue when saving a users search in Web admin
• Fixed JavaScript error with IE8 on Web admin users page
• Fixed Web admin access restrictions for users and nodes creation
• Fixed SQL query of connection types report in Web admin
• Fixed blank page with WISPr on OS X
• Fixed nodes simple search by IP address
• Fixed access reevaluation when changing the status of a pending node
• Fixed network access for users with no "set role" action (#1778)
• Fixed conversion of wildcards to regular expressions in domains passthroughs
• Fixed display of last IP address of nodes when end_time is in the future
• Fixed XSS issues in Web admin
• Fixed extractSsid for Cisco Aironet and Cisco Aironet WDS