September 6th, 2021

Conference Room

Agenda

• Core Update 160
• Core Update 161
• IPFire Location
  • Michael has been hacking suricata
• IPFire on AWS aarch64 has launched
• Find a date for the next developer summit

Attendees

• Michael
• Peter
• Adolf
• Jonatan
• Daniel
• Arne

Log

Core Update 160

• Prefer bug fixes over package updates
• Should have everything we need to drop Python 2 (without actually dropping it, add a note to announcement)
• Include pppd 2.4.9

Core Update 161

• Drop Python 2
• Potentially new kernel with some configuration changes:
  • https://git.ipfire.org/?p=people/ms/ipfire-2.x.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kernel-stuff
  • Everyone is happy with TPM enabled for RNG, can be disabled in BIOS
• Adolf is going to package ExFAT utils (#12692)

Benchmarks

• Daniel presented our benchmark results of the IPFire Mini Appliance and IPFire Business Appliance
• Michael presented how we made the IPS faster and increased throughput in normal operation
• Offloading (ntuple), Cake, all increase throughput further and will be sent to the list soon

Fast Flux

• Peter submitted a second patchset for this feature
• There is an unsolved issue regarding false positives

Lynis source?

• Files on the official download page have different checksums every time