Stability, Security and Functionality

This release continues stability fixes, some extra security functionality, and is working towards a new way of looking at StrongBox bundles. Important changes are the rpmstrap and debootstrap functionality, which allow the automatic creation of dynamic vservers. Also, unionfs is included in this release. The next release will focus on adding unionfs based templates to StrongBox, to allow a fully dynamic, template driven bundle system.

The other focus of the releasea was to make it completely self bootstrapping, by adding a compiler, distcc, and more of the source code directly within the distribution's addons

• makerpm and makedebian scripts greatly improved

• asteriskathome build script

• Improved usb authentication, and automatic key selection for USB keys

• Added a gcc, distcc, linux headers, and kernel source add-ons

• Unionfs, bind, vrenice, rpm, hashlimits subsystem

• Larger default config partition (12MB)

• dmraid support re-added (use dmraid kernel parameter on boot)

• Updated versions of all software

Note regarding commercial/non-commercial versions of StrongBox

Commercial versions of StrongBox are no different from the non-commercial versions in terms of the software that they contain. However, commercial versions do have the following benefits:

• Secure Certificate Authority

• Quick patches for reported software bugs

• Money raised will help open source development

If you're interested in a commercial version, check out these options.