This version was released on 31st of July 2024. Moving forward this process will be automated to collect dev-branch into a stable branch and regularly released to encapsulate security/bug fixes. As such, these new articles may not be consistently updated. The latest information will always available on Github though.

This release is available for download at:
Download at Github

For installation instructions please see https://docs.fogproject.org/en/latest/installation/server/install-fog-server/ and select your relevant server OS.

Release notes: Read at Github

This version was re-released (re-tagged) on 31st of March 2023 to patch issues with the location plugin that would cause trouble when updating from an earlier version.

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://docs.fogproject.org/en/latest/installation/server/install-fog-server/ and select your relevant server OS.

Release notes:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/blob/cd027f0625fa092592c16c917ba6b441a4d8a81b/Release Notes.MD

Comparison of 1.5.9 to 1.5.10:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.9...1.5.10

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Installation_manuals and select your relevant server OS.

Comparison of 1.5.8 to 1.5.9:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.8...1.5.9

This release candidate is available for download at: Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Installation_manuals and select your relevant server OS.

Comparison of 1.5.9-RC1 to 1.5.9-RC2:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.9-RC1...1.5.9-RC2

This release candidate is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Installation_manuals and select your relevant server OS.

Comparison of 1.5.8 to 1.5.9-RC1:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.8...1.5.9-RC1

FOG Server:

BUG Fixes:

• Add installer check to see if compiling iPXE binaries is needed
• Fix exec command line in systemd FOGSnapinReplicator file
• Force re-compile of rootcert.c in iPXE to prevent from issues when CA changes
• Update compile check scripts to latest versions on Raspberry Pi
• Fix IP/interface check on service startup
• Properly query multicast session id to be able to retrieve image info
• Repair product key decoding on call to hostinfo.php
• Improve input check on aesdecrypt in case of unencrypted passwords with pipe characters
• Handle DB root password more conservative to not lock out people with newer MariaDB versions
• Re-work the checks and setting up of DB security
• Prevent FOGMulticastManager from completing a task too early
• Fix some bugs in Sites plugin (thanks to Fernando Gietz)
• Switch to libcurl4 for Raspbian 10 as well
• Fix Image Manager to consider global setting on image creation
• Fix installer prompting for DB root password
• Force correct PHP version on Debian and remove old PHP when found to be still installed
• Improve check on fogstorage account access granted
• Prevent FOG services from filling up memory on hook events array
• Fix interface enumeration on systems with DHCP enabled
• Using PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu 20.04 as they moved just before the official release
• Fix installer issue with PPP that is not using a via gateway route
• Correct snapin list view column showing if it's a pack or not

Improvements:

• Enhance error message when root environment is not properly loaded
• Get rid of trim on array warning when canceling a multicast task
• Add back reset of image size on client and update numbers only on capture
• Update description of Normal wipe (thanks to abulhol)
• Change default global setting on compression format
• Fix two typos in ipxescripts (thanks to bchr)

FOG Operating System (FOS):

• Switch to using shred instead of dd for normal wipe to make it faster
• Update Kernel (4.19.118) and Buildroot (2020.02.1)

FOGService (fog-client/zazzles):

BUG Fixes:

• Repair hang on Linux systems when shutting down FOGService (issue #93)
• Fix unzipping subdirectories on Linux/Unix systems (issue #122)

Improvements:

• Move to .Net Framework 4.5.2
• Update Quartz to 3.0.7 and ZipLib to 1.2.0
• Add Romanian and Polish language support

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client.

Comparison of 0.11.19 to 0.12.0:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-client/compare/0.11.19...0.12.0

BUG Fixes

• Repair hang on Linux systems when shutting down FOGService (issue #93)
• Fix unzipping subdirectories on Linux/Unix systems (issue #122)

Improvements

• Move to .Net Framework 4.5.2
• Update Quartz to 3.0.7 and ZipLib to 1.2.0
• Add Romanian and Polish language support

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Installation_manuals and select your relevant server OS.

Comparison of 1.5.7 to 1.5.8:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.7...1.5.8

FOG Server:

This release mainly focuses on bug fixes and improving security for FOG.

BUG Fixes:

• Use URL encoded parameter for password in CURL calls (587a25f, 79f94bd)
• Handle VLAN network interface names like eth0@if56 properly when enumerating interfaces (a2fc95e2)
• Fix LDAP port in plugin code (97b57ac, 403d1d1)
• Repair installer to work on all current Ubuntu versions (28debc9, 9233067, 4d61492, 79388ae)
• Rearange compile parameters as iPXE fails on SSL with CERT/TRUST not being last (e424b04)
• Change type of alternative subject name information as modern browsers check those strictly (7fdb3f6)
• Use SSLCACertificateFile instead as SSLCertificateChainFile which is obsolete since Apache 2.4.8 (6f7d462)
• Make sure we wait until an interface with our known IP is up #268 (69b4c44)
• Only ask for PHP/apache reinstall if PHP 5 was found installed (70078be)
• Repair building of iPXE binaries for HTTPS setups (296877d, 831d8ea)
• Fix typo in snapin class (6314aa4 thanks to Quazz)
• Repair version query in FOG configuration web view (8c69efc, fcfe759)
• Fix storage group failure on task finish updating (3c28f7b)
• Prevent from setting a MAC address that is in use by another host (88e10d8)
• Fix issue with double pipes in ad password field (9e70bc2)
• Fix download of snapins from wrong FOG server in location setups (d0162c8)
• Prevent from adding group associations with zero host or group ID (cf01c7e, c0d8509)
• Fix interface selection on systems where more than one NICs are up (ca3c2fa)
• Fix API call to editing host object, #329 (54beb9b)
• Prevent from migrating to MariaDB on Ubuntu installs to not cause trouble (29af4df)
• Do not reset the image size on client value on client checkin (9ff8776)
• Fix reports to work without groups and add search field (dde4d9d, b1f21c3, 7a6dc13)
• Correct package list update for Debian 10 buster upgrades (3f3b237)

Improvements:

• Update README with current information on downloading and installing FOG (0922112)
• Add username substitution to email field for deployment notification (7f80368)
• Re-try querying size and hash information via HTTPS (0fd7913, 2e55ba9)
• Make sure we don't ask for HTTPS again if parameter is given (ac08798)
• Improve check on fogproject account existing (8af5b3e)
• Add separate download for ARM platform binary archive (d67a620, 30c4200)
• Remove old pxelinux stuff and ltsp config so people don't use it anymore (50e2995)
• Change default image definitions to Windows 10 and Zstd compression (45ec9fa)
• Add Ubuntu 20.xx support - tested on daily build currently PHP 7.3 (91f7cb0)
• Add installer question on enabling HTTPS (755cbc4)
• Switch to auto colors for bandwith graph (0ffd39f)
• Present storage node settings to the user more clearly (4226527)
• Improve database security by using less privileged account and force users to set a DB root password #355 (490cb3b)
• Add check for proper root environemnt within the installer (3c2d492)
• Add kernel parameter to disable problematic power saving for NVMe drives (e67ce75)
• Remove feature to add a changed primary MAC as additional MAC (8c820e2)
• Update installer to work on Ubuntu 19.xx (ab61ce0)
• Hide/mask AD password from users eyes, #337 (72b0de0)
• Improve firewall check to make it work for CentOS 8 as well (a039fd4)
• Update installer to work on CentOS 8 (3e125db, 5ff4c8b)
• Add sanity checking in the remote file hash and size response (933d7c3, bee5419 thanks to @mjrider)
• Only test the availability of the remote nodes once (b511e16 thanks to @mjrider)
• Add hints on image type setting including a link to the wiki article (2c17837)
• Add check for snapin file upload size to print appropriate warning to the user (1f4ad45)
• Re-add code for ARM based bootloaders (PR #327, thanks to parkerberb-nfv)
• Add iPXE AXGE native binary for ASIX AX88179 USB 3.0 (156001f)
• Ensure we download the latest hashsum to check the binaries against (9235729)
• Added possibilty to queue multicast task when the is not any slot free on the storage node (PR #310, bdbaf33 thanks to @Fernando Gietz)

FOG Operating System (FOS):

BUG Fixes:

• Repair issues with partclone.imager that were introduced with version 0.3.12 (7faf4b6, 8b60ec0)
• Update awk cmd lines to no longer escape unncessarily (6f2f46a, 80e959a, 5f0e7b5 thanks to @Quazz)
• Get NVMe device names right (e0202be, 276b22d)
• Fix swap fs creation if capture and deploy use different disk technologies - SATA/SSD vs. NVMe vs. mmcblk (07fee1a)
• Make resize way more reliable by adding flock to sfdisk calls (fd3daf2 also backported to 1.5.7)

Improvements:

• Update Linux Kernel (4.19.90) and Buildroot (2019.04.8)
• Update various packages: Partclone (0.3.12), Zstd (1.4.4), Testdisk & Photorec (7.1) - many thanks to @Quazz
• Add NVME cli utility (a6b7d24 thanks to @Quazz)
• Add error output when an error happens on partition layout restore (0e893c1)
• Improve algorithm to match destinations in multi disk setups (4439247)
• Allow for higher CPU core numbers and add Intel idle driver to fix #31 (fe58b6a)
• Prevent from adding partitions to fixed list twice and sort the list
• Add support for APFS filesystem (e151e67, 6c01ce6)
• Add rsyncable options when calling partclone (3cc47ca)

FOGService (fog-client/zazzles):

BUG Fixes:

• Add manual check against CA from key store as mono seems to fail doing (9068442)
• Repair ShutdownGUI notifications #121 (ee4ff0a)
• Make the installer use last known location on upgrade #117 (221181c)
• Repair use of webserver parameter when running upgrade to not use the default value (a91bccd)
• Allow installer to load CA cert from HTTPS enabled FOG servers (52a1f74)
• Changed x509 certificate store to use user store instead of system store on Mac OS X (23dd7b5, 489e621 many thanks to @danielbmiller)
• Translate Day of Week from CRON (0=Sun) to Quartz (1=Sun) (2591bde)
• Change product key format check as it is stored without dashes in DB (303fa48)
• Load certs from store without automatic valitity check to fix issue on recent Mono versions (0f13a4c)
• Do not follow redirects on HTTP POST as it would end in a GET without parameters anyway (d52c110)

Improvements:

• Update external libraries - Newtonsoft.Json (12.0.3), NUnit (3.12.0), WebSocket4Net (0.15.2.11), Common.Logging (3.4.1.0), SuperSocket.Common (1.6.4.0)
• Add option to enable HTTPS to installer GUI (9216dc3)
• Skip printer handling if there is a power task scheduled already (e2031b7)
• Renew code signing certificate used by the auto updating process (f8a2734, 6a79f6c, 0852325)
• Retry HTTP POST on redirect and update settings when redirected to HTTPS (966f485)
• Improve installer logging and error checks (6b74871, c6701c4, ce9cafe, 3e37854, 425491e, 0b2a62a, e2b7e53, 9753af7, 40274ab)
• Add Czech language support (f71e6ad thanks to @Valer)
• Set default code page to prevent from error on systems with mixed code page settings (6ab5126)
• Allow for unzipping empty folders in snapin packs (0a51909)
• Add Brazil Portuguese language (b299551 thanks to @scosta)
• Add environment vars as suggested in issue #109  (8944e85, 100fe2f)

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client.

Comparison of 0.11.17 to 0.11.18:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-client/compare/0.11.17...0.11.18

BUG Fixes

• Allow installer to load CA Certificate from HTTPS enabled FOG Servers.
• Make the installer use last known location on upgrade.
• Fix ShutdownGUI notification not working.

New Features

• Sign all binaries with both signatures and update Zazzles to check those.
• Add option to enable HTTPS to installer GUI
• Skip printer handling if there is a power task scheduled already.
• Renew Code signing certificate used by the auto updating process.
• Improve installer logs and error checks to make debugging easier.
• Retry HTTP POST on redirect and update settings when redirected to HTTPS.

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Installation_manuals and select your relevant server OS.

Comparison of 1.5.6 to 1.5.7:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.6...1.5.7

FOG Server:
This release mainly focuses on performance improvements and bug fixes for FOG.

BUG Fixes:

• Propagate fogproject account rename in the database properly
• Fix PHP version check on Debian upgrade installs
• Repair advanced menu script
• Repair iPXE compilation with HTTPS/SSL certificate support
• Enumerate image size properly

Improvements:

• Enforce new hostname option to be used on upgrades as well
• Get rid of error in log file when checksum wasn’t downloaded yet
• Silence the ftp_… commands
• Update installer to work on Debian 10 Buster
• Add options to FOGBackup script

FOG Operating System (FOS):

BUG Fixes:

• Fix resize/expand issue with NVMe disks
• Add GPT check before trying to set UUID disk and partition information

Improvements:

• Increase init size to 256 MB
• Add package dosfstools for mkfs.vfat
• Add instructions for building ARM kernels and inits
• Update Kernel (4.19.48)

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

FOG Server (PHP/Web)

BUG Fixes

• Fix route for editing items like snapins, modules, printers, groups, and hosts.
• Prevent long page load times with user history on individual hosts.
• Fix various minor bugs in Site, AccessControl, and LDAP plugins. (Thanks Fernando)
• Add back the printer config file input field.
• Catch up with changes in RHEL, Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu, and Mageia installations.
• Fix display issue where storage group was shown as empty.
• Repair snapin replication

Improvements

• Add group name to multicast task name for better distinction of tasks.
• Add SubnetGroups Plugin (Thanks sctt)
• Add iPXE compilation for HTTPS support to the installer.
• Improve random password generation to allow for more different characters.
• Update Spanish language translations. (Thanks Fernando)
• Update rEFInd to 0.11.4
• Rename fog system account to fogproject and add warning to not use this as your username.
• Enhance LDAP plugin (Thanks Fernando)
• Add hostname for SSL certificate generation.
• Add checks for SELinux and firewall rules.
• Add checksums to make sure installer downloads binaries properly.
• Re-work database conneciton handling to speed up page loads.
• Speed up API calls to make UI more responsive when listing storage nodes.

FOG Operation System (FOS)

BUG Fixes

• Properly handle systems with two NVMe disks that swap in every reboot.
• Fix newly introduced partition flags detection.

Improvements

• Update Kernel (4.19.36), Buildroot (2019.02.01) and iPXE (latest git pull)
• Change detection of fixed partitions from labels to partition flags. (Thanks Quazz)
• Remove bootup warnings which users keep posting in the forums.
• Re-enable ARM support
• Add Microsemi/Smart Storage PQI controller Driver.
• Add Intel Volume Management Device Driver.
• Adjust build script to run on RHEL as well. (Thanks Quazz).

Comparison of 1.5.5 to 1.5.6:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.5...1.5.6

Changes to the FOG Operating System (FOS) can be seen on the commit history on https://github.com/FOGProject/fos.

The FOG Team is proud to announce the immediate availability FOG 1.5.5.

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

Kernels/init Modifications/Updates:

• Update kernel and buildroot version to fix long delay when erasing partition tables
• Improve partition label check
• Add several firmware blobs for NICs and RAID controllers
• Add mdmon binary for better RAID support
• Add X2APIC to x64 kernel to fix OOPS on Atom CPU

FOG Server (PHP/Web)

• Improve php-fpm config to allow for using more resources
• Refactor multicast manager and add dynamic address setting
• Revert refind.efi to 0.11.0 and improve config
• Improve install for Ubuntu 18.04 (PHP 7.2, no external repo)
• Remove php-mycrpt dependency
• Fix Deploy No Snapin task
• Fix Apache config to let the API work on Ubuntu as well
• Allow for more parallel replication FTP sessions
• Re-work and improve replication to storage nodes

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Nodes being on different versions (1.5.4 vs. 1.5.5) will replicate images over and over again as some of the hashing code needed to be changed. Therefore we advise you to update all nodes in one go! Please make sure you stop replication on the master first systemctl stop FOGImageReplicator; systemctl stop FOGSnapinReplicator, then update the storage node(s) and then update master node as a last step.

Comparison of 1.5.4 to 1.5.5:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.4...1.5.5

Changes to the FOG Operating System (FOS) can be seen on the commit history on https://github.com/FOGProject/fos.

The FOG Team is proud to announce the immediate availability FOG 1.5.4.

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

NOTE: 4.16.6 kernel takes a long time to erase mbr/gpt tables. Downgrading the kernel will make this go faster, but it should be noted that 4.16.6 WILL erase these things, it just takes longer than most are used to.

Comparison of 1.5.3 to 1.5.4:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.3...1.5.4

Changes to the FOG Operating System (FOS) can be seen on the commit history on https://github.com/FOGProject/fos.

The FOG Team is proud to announce the immediate availability FOG 1.5.3.

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Installation_manuals and select your relevant server OS

This release addresses some php-fpm installation issues and ensures object creation can actually happen.

Comparison of 1.5.2 to 1.5.3:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.2...1.5.3

The FOG Team is proud to announce the immediate availability FOG 1.5.2.

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Installation_manuals and select your relevant server OS

This release addresses some php-fpm installation issues and ensures object creation can actually happen.

Comparison of 1.5.1 to 1.5.2:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/compare/1.5.1...1.5.2

The FOG Team is proud to announce the immediate availability FOG 1.5.1. With this also comes a new official release of the FOG Client to v0.11.16.

This release is available for download at:
Download from GitHub

For installation instructions please see https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Installation_manuals and select your relevant server OS.

For any issues you may encounter, please report the issue on the forums https://forums.fogproject.org/.

FOG Server

This release mainly focuses on performance improvements and bug fixes fog the FOG GUI.

BUG Fixes:

• Ensure manager has data variable set to prevent potential erroneous errors being thrown.
• Fix membership tabs causing major performance slowdowns.
• Fix deploy elements causing major performance slowdowns.
• Die if insertId is unable to be called.
• More statically control webroot for route as we always go through /fog/
• Fix delete all powermanagement tasks from group page.
• Fix a few ldap plugin issues.
• Add and fix online checking of storage nodes.
• Fix timeout display on snapin edit page.
• Fix export and fogbackup script errors.
• Ensure multicast session creation sets host count as client count if none is set.
• Attempt at fixing random element adding/removing from objects, (e.g. hosts added to group)
• Remove auto-encrypt text from ad password setting.

Improvements:

• Dashboard page updates for bandwidth much less resource intensive.
• Dashboard page now shows time based rather than point based count, so 2 minute display actually displays 2 minutes of data, not 120 points of data.
• Speed up membership and deploy tabs.
• PHP Version installation on debian/ubuntu should not be forcibly set, this allows users to use php versions they want rather than always setting to 7.0 (if it is installable) during installation.

FOG Client

BUG Fixes:

• Set correct client version on Linux and Mac

New Features

• New generalized notification message for snapins.

Comparison 1.5.0 to 1.5.1