NethServer, an open-source operating system, announced that NethServer 7.9 is publicly available. Many new features were added since the last NethServer ISO was released.
NethServer has announced that NethServer 7.9 is publicly available. According to the announcement, many new features were added since the last NethServer ISO was released, they are all available within NethServer 7.9 based.
What’s new?
- CentOS 7.9
- NethGui is dead. Welcome Cockpit!
- Some web applications are still available on port 980
- Security improvements
- Threat shield: DNS blacklist
- Netdata is now installed by default
- New panel to sync your email via IMAP
Nethgui, the old server manager is not available by default on new installations. You can configure the system to access the new Server Manager on port 9090. Old Server Manager can be still installed from the Software Center.
It is still possible to use CGP (Collectd Graph Panel), EveBox, Rspamd UI, Lightsquid and Ntopng on HTTPS port 980, even if the old Server Manager has not been installed. In addition to this, Netdata is now installed by default.
New panel to sync your email via IMAP
NethServer 7.9 comes with a new panel to sync users’ email via IMAP. It simplifies the migration of email from your existing mail server to nethserver. In terms of security improvements, SSH weak ciphers are now disabled by default. Further, the default TLS policy is 2020-05-10. TLS 1.1, TLS 1.0, SSL v3, and SSL v2 are disabled.
You can install NethServer on a virtual machine or on a bare-metal server using a DVD or USB stick. It is possible to upgrade from 7.x is supported through the Software Center starting from 2020-12-02. There are automatic upgrades to 7.9 for #subscription start from 2020-12-09.