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

This is now available as an alpha release in an early stage of development and we welcome all FreeNATS users to download it and give it a try.

As the kind of wonderful people FreeNATS users are we know you might find FreeDESK useful and, importantly to us, have some feedback/problems/comments/suggestions you would like to make.

The FreeDESK website with download and contact details is at http://freedesk.purplepixie.org/. Please check it out.



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...



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



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


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...



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



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



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 ...



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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


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 ...


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 ...


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 ...



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


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. ...



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


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...


06/05/2009: Search Failures

Thanks to the unbridled power of the Verrotech Control Panel, Google Analytics and Spyder on search.purplepixie.org I'm able to ...



Sorry but 1.04.0a was not packaged correctly and as such the DB schema update would have probably failed. In investigating th...



Dear FreeNATTERS, I hope all is well in your world both physical and virtual. I am writing this from sunny Namibia where the s...



Dear FreeNATTERS, Just a quick note to say that the ropey support and release schedule is liable to get a bit more ropey in th...


08/12/2008: Email Switcheroo

I have just changed my email over to google. I thought all had gone well with the switch and no mail was lost but it appears som...



Please be aware than 0.02.3 brings in a few changes to the way test runs work. Primarily you need to know that: (a) the datab...


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Release History

Development Release 1.14.0a (11/11/2011)

Version 1.13.3b Released (09/07/2011)

Version 1.13.2b Released (08/07/2011)

Development Release 1.13.1a (13/04/2011)

Development Release 1.13.0a (02/03/2011)

Version 1.12.2b Released (20/02/2011)

Development Release 1.12.1a (30/01/2011)

Development Release 1.12.0a (30/01/2011)

Development Release 1.11.2a (29/01/2011)

Version 1.11.1b Released (29/01/2011)

Development Release 1.11.0a (11/01/2011)

Development Release 1.10.3a (11/01/2011)

Development Release 1.10.2a (14/11/2010)

Development Release 1.10.1a (14/11/2010)

Development Release 1.10.0a (17/10/2010)

Development Release 1.09.6a (13/08/2010)

Development Release 1.09.5a (13/08/2010)

Development Release 1.09.4a (10/07/2010)

Development Release 1.09.3a (10/07/2010)

Version 1.09.2b Released (10/04/2010)

Development Release 1.09.1a (05/04/2010)

Development Release 1.09.0a (28/02/2010)

Development Release 1.08.2a (01/02/2010)

Development Release 1.08.1a (22/01/2010)

Development Release 1.08.0a (24/11/2009)

Development Release 1.07.0a (23/11/2009)

Development Release 1.06.3a (22/11/2009)

Development Release 1.06.2a (20/11/2009)

Development Release 1.06.1a (01/10/2009)

Development Release 1.05.1a (28/07/2009)


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