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We are pleased to announce that we will be releasing BaruwaOS 9.8 on the 15th Sep 2026. With this upgrade BaruwaOS will be going from Enterprise Linux 6 to Enterprise Linux 9. We are offering an in place upgrade to move you from BaruwaOS 6 to BaruwaOS 9. The upgrade will be handled by a script that will automate... Read the rest of this post

We will release BaruwaOS 6.9.1 on Monday 5th Feb 2018, this post highlights some of the features and changes that will be introduced as part of this release. This BaruwaOS release strides across two baruwa-core releases 2.1.6 and 2.1.7. This is the biggest feature release since our 2.0.7 release that introduced BaruwaOS. It will be the last major BaruwaOS... Read the rest of this post

We will release BaruwaOS 6.8.1 on Monday 20th February 2017, this post highlights some of the features and changes that will be introduced as part of this release. BaruwaOS now uses the queuefile transport that was developed by us to queue messages for scanning. BaruwaOS now supports IDNA. Internationalized domain names can... Read the rest of this post

We will release BaruwaOS 6.8 on Monday 13th June 2016, this post highlights some of the features and changes that will be introduced as part of this release. Baruwa now supports the ACME client protocol. This allows for requesting of certificates from ACME compartible Certificate Authorities such as CertBot formerly known as Lets Encrypt a... Read the rest of this post

We will soon release BaruwaOS 6.7.4, the post highlights some of the features and changes that will be introduced as part of this release. Beginning with BaruwaOS 6.7.4 backend systems will require a PAID subscription. Existing systems installed prior to 6.7.4 being released are exempt from this requirement. The configuration on Standalone... Read the rest of this post

We will soon release Baruwa Enterprise Edition version 2.1.0 as part of BaruwaOS 6.7.2 This post describes some of the changes contained in this update. It is now possible to search through local scores to quickly find a rule that you would like to modify. In versions of Baruwa prior to 2.1.0, bulk... Read the rest of this post

We will soon release Baruwa Enterprise Edition version 2.1.0 as part of BaruwaOS 6.7.2 This update has greatly improved the clustering functionality. This release introduces the ability to setup shared a quarantine without using a shared storage system. This functionality is implemented using a file syncronization system that ensures that the quarantine is in sync across all the nodes... Read the rest of this post

We will be releasing Baruwa Enterprise Edition version 2.0.7 on Monday 23rd March 2015. This release introduces MTA settings management functionality within the web interface. Prior to this release MTA settings had to be managed by editing text files. The article is part of a series introducing the features available in Baruwa Enterprise Edition release 2.0.7. To read the... Read the rest of this post

We will be releasing Baruwa Enterprise Edition version 2.0.7 on Monday 23rd March 2015. This release contains the long awaited and requested Content Protection management functionality. The article is part of a series introducing the features available in Baruwa Enterprise Edition release 2.0.7. To read the other articles in this series go to https://www.baruwa.org/blog/category/2.0.7/ Content Protection in... Read the rest of this post

We will be releasing Baruwa Enterprise Edition version 2.0.7 on Monday 23rd March 2015. This update has greatly improved the clustering functionality. In the past the documentation of Baruwa Enterprise Edition clustering was not up to scratch. This has been fixed in this release. The article is part of a series introducing the features available in Baruwa Enterprise Edition... Read the rest of this post