IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS

Posted by hanuca on Dec 22, 2021 12:50 PM EDT
9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Michael Tremer of the IPFire Project announced today the general availability of IPFire 2.27 Core Update 162 as a new maintenance release of this hardened open-source Linux firewall distribution, the first to be powered by Linux kernel 5.15 LTS.

IPFire 2.27 Core Update 162 is here less than a month after the Core Update 161 release as the last update of the year and also the first update to be powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series.

Until now, IPFire was powered by the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel series, since mid-August 2021, but even if Linux kernel 5.10 LTS is supported until the end of 2026, the devs decided to move to Linux kernel 5.15 LTS, which is supported only until October 2023, since it offers better hardware support and some cool new features.

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