IPFire Core Update 69 released 21JUN13

Today, an update for IPFire has been released, the following changes have been made

obtained from http://www.ipfire.org/news/ipfire-2-13-core-update-69-released

Today, the IPFire development team released the 69th Core Update for IPFire 2. This update comes with a new kernel and some minor enhancements.
Before we start with the changelog, we would like to encourage you to check out the advanced firewall GUI on the IPFire wishlist. We need your help to get this done!

Kernel Update

The Linux kernel has been updated, to address several security issues and other bugs.
The kernel is based on Linux 3.2.46 and comes with a newer wireless stack from kernel 3.8.3.
Some wireless hardware has got better support in term of stability and we have added some more drivers for several networking hardware like USB ethernet adapters and so on. Please report any new hardware on the corresponding hardware compatibility lists.

New boot menu

The install disk has got a new bootloader, where you now can install other versions of IPFire as well. There are also some diagnostic tools and other installation options available.

Turkish Translation

A brand new translation of the IPFire installer and Web User Interface into the Turkish language has been added. Thanks for that to Ersan Yildirim.

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openssh (6.2p2), strace (4.7) and tcpdump (4.4.0) have been updated as well.

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We recommend that everyone updates to this version of IPFire as soon as possible. Please reboot afterwards.
If you want to support the IPFire project, please head over to our IPFire wishlist to support us!

So how do you update your IPFire installation to this latest update?

Well first login to the web interface of your IPFire installation via "https://IPFIRE_IPADDRESS:444/"  eg "https://10.0.0.1:444"

And you will be presented with the following

In the following image you can see where I have highlighted the core-update notification.  Clicking on the link is the same as clicking on the "ipfire" tab from the top menu, which brings you to the following page.

 Pakfire is advising there are two updates, the "Core-Update --2.13 -- Release 68 -> 69" and "Update: linux-pae -- Version:3.2.38 -> 3.2.46 -- Release 28 -> 29".

To update these two packages, click on the icon that I have highlighted with the orange arrow.  Pakfire will now download the updates and the following page will be displayed.

Pakfire will start downloading the updates, now depending on your internet download speed as well as the speed of your hardware you have IPFire running on this procedure could take some time.

So sit back and relax.

Once Pakfire has downloaded and installed the updates you will be presented with the following screen

IPFire is advising that the update requires a restart.  To reboot IPFire click on "system" from the top menu as highlighted by the orange arrow.

This brings you back to the main page that is opened when you first login to IPFire.

To restart to complete the update, click on the "Reboot?" button as highlighted.


IPFire will ask for confirmation

To confirm the reboot/restart, click on the "Reboot" button again and you should be presented with the following window.

Once IPFire has rebooted, you can confirm that you are running the new update by logging back in, clicking on "ipfire" from the top menu and you should be presented with the following.

Success!!