News & Announcements

05/05/2017: Stable Rollup and nslast Bug


Six years (!!!) since the last stable release a rollup stable beta is out in the form of 1.18.0. Naturally this may have quite a few changes and, although tested thoroughly, could cause some issues with legacy installs so please backup before updating.

This also fixes a bug with the new nslast (last nodeside data) test which said 0 seconds (just now) was a failure condition causing some monitors to go a bit haywire. All fixed with the removal of a single character.

Any problems with the update or anything else: http://www.purplepixie.org/freenats/support.php


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01/07/2016: MySQLi Migration


Following a bug report and request from a user all of FreeNATS has been updated to use mysqli (that is the main system and mysql...


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07/02/2016: FreeNATS on Github


FreeNATS has its development codebase now fully hosted on Github, along with the new build and release scripts! Github will ...


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06/02/2016: Docker Container Trial


As usual with our late adoption we are trialling a docker container for FreeNATS. Please note this is a pre-alpha trial and very...


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20/07/2015: New Trial Virtual Appliance


Only a mere six years in the planning and five since the release of a corrupted version, a new FreeNATS virtual appliance is ava...


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12/03/2015: Purplepixie on Facebook


Come on, come all to the social media ball! Showing up fashionably late to the party Purplepixie now have a Facebook page. ...


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03/07/2012: Service Desk from PurplePixie


With great excitement I would like to announce the latest product from PurplePixie, an open-source service desk / helpdesk syste...


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08/06/2012: Smallest NMS in the World


Some of you may have heard about the Raspberry Pi, a new ARM-based tiny computer on a board capable of running Linux. Well mi...


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22/02/2012: Forum Registrations Blocked


Unfortunately owing to massively increased spam of an ever more dubious nature new user registrations for the forum have been te...


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11/11/2011: Russian and Italian Language Packs


The latest development release (1.14.0a) now includes language packs for Russian and Italian. Credit for the Russian pack goe...


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29/01/2011: User Survey 2011


In a continued effort to find out how people are using the system and any improvements or modifications they would like to see I...


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11/01/2011: HTTP Authentication


From a user suggestion HTTP Authentication (Basic HTTP-AUTH) has been implemented. This feature is available as of version &l...


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11/01/2011: IMAP and SMTP Bugs Resolved


Thanks to user Marc bugs with the IMAP and SMTP test modules have been identified and now resolved. These would both cause tests...


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31/12/2010: Festive FreeNATS Greetings


A quick note to hope all FreeNATTERS out there had a good Christmas and wishing you all the very best for 2011. In 2011 I am ...


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14/11/2010: Mailing List 14/11/2010


Dear FreeNATTERS,I hope you are well in your far-flung corners of the globe and your LANs are behaving themselves. It looks like...


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14/11/2010: New Virtual Appliance Trial


Following a long search for a suitable replacement for rPath we believe the answer lies in TurnKey LAMP, an appliance based on U...


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17/10/2010: Multi-lingual Support


FreeNATS now has multi-lingual support. Version 1.10.0a incorporates a new system to allow the use of language packs. Most of th...


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03/10/2010: Sprechen sie Deutsch?


Any FreeNATTERS out there speak German? There's been a video posted on the newordner.net website which mentions FreeNATS but the...


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13/08/2010: Windows Desktop Alerter


Following a number of false starts I am pleased to announce today the release of WinDAN, a Windows Desktop Alerter for NATS. ...


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10/04/2010: Mailing List 10/04/2010


Dear FreeNATTERS, I hope you are well and your networks continue to thrash away fighting the good fight and passing spam emai...


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08/04/2010: Win32 Nodeside Script Update


Thanks to a suggestion from Alex the Win32 nodeside script has been updated to include information on running processes (in addi...


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15/01/2010: Mailing List 15/01/2010


Dear FreeNATTERs, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a good festive season and have eaten and made merry. * New Features *...


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15/01/2010: URGENT: rPath Upgrade Bug


ATTENTION ALL VM APPLIANCE USERS A bug has been found with the rPath update option in the web interface whereby wget and comm...


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24/11/2009: Utility Links


The latest alpha (1.08.0) features the inclusion of utility links. These links allow you to display up to three custom links ...


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24/11/2009: Extras Package


Just a reminder; the extras package is now available in alpha releases from 1.06.0 upward. The extras are additional scripts ...


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24/11/2009: Upgrade Script Bug


Please note that the update scripts on versions prior to 1.07.0 used the now depreciated reply flag within cp. This may have ...


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17/08/2009: Mailing List 170809


Dear FreeNATTERS, I hope this finds you well with your network free of packet loss and servers serving promptly and correctly...


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22/06/2009: POSIX Nodeside Bug


Thanks to user Shaun M a bug has been identified with the FreeNATS POSIX node monitor (version 0.04) with regard to disk space. ...


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26/05/2009: Mailing List 260509


Dear FreeNATTERS, Greetings to you one and all. I hope your networks continue to be strong and mighty and that you are still ...


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25/05/2009: Spim Spam


The phpBB forum.purplepixie.org has come under a bit of an attack recently from spammers posting all sorts of deliciously disgus...


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