The Inverse team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence v6.3.0. This is a major release with new features, enhancements and important bug fixes. This release is considered ready for production use and upgrading from previous versions is strongly advised.

Here are the changes included in this release:

New Features

Added support for EAP-FAST

MySQL is now supported as the Fingerbank database backend

Integration with Cisco MSE adds maps, location based portals and notifications

Added the ability to locate a device based on DHCP Option 82

Added support for Meraki wired switches

New SQL reporting allows creation of personalized reports

Enhancements

Added support for Brocade CLI RADIUS authentication

Added support for OpenWrt Chaos Calmer 15.05 with hostapd

Added configuration conflict handling for active/active clusters

Fingerbank configuration is now cached

Removed the pf/var directory from the backups to make them smaller

Fingerbank is now configurable from the initial PacketFence configurator

Added support for Xirrus switches CLI RADIUS authentication

Pinterest and Instagram are now supported as OAuth authentication sources

Support for Suricata md5 extraction over SMTP protocol

Added sample monit helper scripts under pf/addons

Added support for custom AUP template per portal module

Several improvements to Fingerbank to make it more user-friendly

Added option to export nodes and users within the web administration interface

Third parties can now extend what can be matched in profile filters

PacketFence created interfaces will now be excluded from Red Hat’s NetworkManager

Added the ability to restrict the modification of node roles by a user

Bug Fixes

Added timeout to captive portal to prevent long running requests (#1570)

Do not start pfqueue processes for pfdetect if it?s not running (#1593)

See the complete list of changes and the UPGRADE.asciidoc file for notes about upgrading.