Endian is glad to inform you of the official release Endian UTM 2 .5 – Mobile Connectivity, now available on the market.

2.5 Mobile Connectivity
The proliferation of mobile computing platforms have created challenges for businesses large and small: businesses must find a way to support this new genre of devices without compromise or risk getting left behind. Also, the mobile device revolution has brought with it a new era in fast, portable Internet access that ’s available anywhere and anytime. Endian UTM 2.5 is designed to offer your business the ultimate security solution for the new Mobile Connectivity world.

Discover the enhancements made on the current platform as well as the brand new functionalities and let Endian protect your data, your network and your mobile devices wherever you are.

Main features

• Secure Mobile Connectivity to iPhone®, iPad® and Android mobile platforms
• VPN – Unified user management
• Support for 3G/4G USB Modems
• Hotspot & SmartConnect™ Upgrades
• Endian Mini New Green integrates WIFI module

More info on www.endian.com

Your Endian Team

today we would like to say “thanks!” to our Endian Partner co.Tec, for a great presentation on the didacta – The Education Trade Fair. Of course also a “big thank you” to Hannes, Robert and Peter who represented Endian on the stand.

Have a great day
Your Endian team

For already registered users it is now possible to upgrade from previous versions of Endian Firewall Community to version 2.5.1.  However, right now this is only possible for systems that are already registered in the Endian Community and are registered in the Development (bleeding edge) channel. If you are unsure whether your system is registered in the development or in the production channel, you can find out by typing smart channel –show | grep devel. The result should look like this:

smart channel --show | grep devel
baseurl = http://USERNAME:community@updates.endian.org/devel/


If the output is empty you have chosen the production channel. In this case upgrades are not available for you yet.
If your system is registered in the development channel you can perform the upgrade by running the following commands.


smart update
smart upgrade efw-upgrade
efw-upgrade


The upgrade will then start and take quite some time depending on the version that was previously installed. Upgrading from version 2.5 is quite fast, all other versions will download and install hundreds of packages and the upgrade procedure will therefore take a long time.

Last but definitely not least: if your system is not yet registered please wait a few more days – upgrading now might cause issues (you might also have to run efw-upgrade a few times until everything is ready in this case).

Enjoy!
Your Endian Team

The update for Endian Firewall Community to version 2.5.1 is now available! This release introduces the following new features:

New features in the 2.5 series:

• Connectivity – Support for most modern UMTS/3G USB dongles
  By adding new drivers Endian Firewall 2.5 now supports most modern UMTS/3G dongles. Once plugged in the appear as serial devices and can be configured by choosing Analog/UMTS modem as uplink type. You will find the newly created serial devices in the Serial/USB Port dropdown.
• System – Performance improvements
  The whole system startup procedure has been rewritten. Endian’s new jobsengine decreases the startup by 50 percent. Additionally major improvements have been made in memory usage. A fully configured system’s memory footprint has been reduced by more than 200 megabytes.

• Contentfilter – Configurable update intervals
  The contentfilter blacklists are now updatable through the GUI like for any other service and updates do not rely on the release of new packages anymore. The interval can be chosen from hourly, daily, weekly and monthly.

• Dashboard – Customizable through configurable widgets
  The new dashboard is now fully customizable through the use of configurable widgets. The update interval for all widgets can be set individually now, widgets can be placed by drag and drop and it is possible to deactivate widgets completely..

• Logging – Trusted timestamping
  Endian Firewall now supports trusted timestamping using OpenTSA. This feature allows you to make sure your log files have not been modified after they have been archived.
• Routing – Additional gateway options
  The policy based routing and static routing modules have been extended. It is now possible to use static gateways for routes as well as to route traffic through OpenVPN connections.
• Bugfixes
  Huge efforts have been made to create a very stable release. On the road to Endian Firewall Community 2.5.1 many small improvements have been made and hundreds of bugs have been fixed.

For detailed information please download the Community Release Note TXT document.

Enjoy the new Release
Your Endian Team

Endian is proud to release the new version of EFW that introduces several new features such as easier procedures to switch to the Enterprise edition and to migrate older versions to EFW 2.4, a new kernel, improved IPsec, and a new GUI for the destination NAT/Port Forwarding module. In addition, Endian Engineers worked hard on bugfixes, making EFW 2.4 a significant improvement in the development of the Endian product family.

Check the complete list of new features and enjoy the new release!

Your Endian team

Hi blog readers,

Endian Engineers are working hard on the new release of our EFW: version 2.4 is coming sooner than you expect!

With EFW 2.4 Endian will introduce new features that have been designed in order to improve the performances of the system and your user experience, as well as several bugfixes that make 2.4 an even more stable and reliable release.

Keep following our news and you will enjoy EFW 2.4 soon!

Today we are proud to announce the release 2.3 of Endian UTM Appliances and Endian Firewall Community. It includes many features previously available only to Enterprise users as well as some completely new features. Some highlights:

• Dashboard
  The main page has been replaced by a dashboard with statistics about the system and its services as well as live-graphs for incoming and outgoing traffic.
• HTTP proxy with user- and group-based content filtering
  The HTTP proxy now has a new and polished web interface that adds the possibility to create group based content filters.
• Intrusion Prevention
  Snort rules can now be configured. It is possible to drop packets as well as to log intrusion attempts.
• Port forwarding rewrite
  In version 2.3 it is possible to add port-forwards from any zone (only from the RED zone previously). Port forwarding without NAT is now also supported.
• Quality of Service
  Traffic Shaping has been replaced by a fully configurable Quality of Service module. QoS devices, classes and rules can be defined.
• Email notifications
  Emails can be sent automatically for predefined events.
• SNMP
  support
Basic SNMP support has been added.

For more information point your browser to:
http://www.endian.com/en/products/features/release/
Enjoy this fantastic release!
Your Endian Team

Please remember that this is not the final release. Therefore do not use it in production environments unless you know what you are doing. Should you find any bugs do not hesitate and add them to our bugtracker at http://bugs.endian.com/ *AFTER* you have made sure that the bug has not been reported already.

This release includes many features that were previously available only to users of the Enterprise release as well as some completely new features. These features are:

Backups
Backups can now be stored to and recovered from attached USB mass storage devices. It is also possible to schedule automatic backups and to send encrypted backups via email.

Dashboard
The main page has been replaced by a dashboard with statistics about the system and its services as well as live-graphs for incoming and outgoing traffic.

Email notifications
Emails can be sent automatically for predefined events.

HTTP proxy time based access control
With the new interface it is possible to add time based access control lists for the HTTP proxy.

HTTP proxy with user- and group-based content filtering
The HTTP proxy now has a new and polished web interface that adds the possibility to create group based content filters.

Intrusion Prevention
Snort rules can now be configured. It is possible to drop packets as well as to log intrusion attempts.

Policy routing
Routing rules can be created based on the interface, MAC address, protocol or port of a packet.

Port forwarding rewrite
In version 2.3 it is possible to add port-forwards from any zone (only from the RED zone previously). Port forwarding without NAT is now also supported.

Quality of Service
Traffic Shaping has been replaced by a fully configurable Quality of Service module. QoS devices, classes and rules can be defined.

SNMP support
Basic SNMP support has been added.

SMTP proxy web interface rewrite
The web interface of the SMTP proxy has been rewritten with focus on usability.

VLAN support (IEEE 802.1Q trunking)
It is now possible to create VLANs on every interface. The VLAN interfaces can be used to distinguish connections in the same zone.

Enjoy the release!
Your Endian team

Hi blog readers,
today I have rumour from our development team!

The last 2.3 beta release is on my desk!!

This is the fourth beta and it’s full featured, I’ve been testing it for one week now and it looks stable.
The GUI is almost definitive, same for the strings (we will start soon the translation).

Are you part of the Endian Community?
There’s a revelation for you!!

We will release soon the 2.3 Release Candidate 1 which will be available to the world!!!

Moreover a good news for Endian 2.2 Enterprise users:
in a couple of weeks we are releasing few patches which fix some annoying bugs.

Be quiet, don’t spread the news

Luca