After many years of development, the FreeRADIUS team is happy to announce Version 3 of the world's most popular server. The release was delayed from June in order to track down and solve a number of last-minute issues. We'd like to thank all of the beta testers for helping with that process. The release announcement is available on the web site: http://freeradius.org/press/index.html#3.0.0 In short, it's simpler, easier to use, and better organized. Upgrading instructions are available here: https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/blob/release_branch_3.0.0/ra... As this is a major version, you CANNOT just use your 2.x configuration files. Sorry, but many of the new features require changes which aren't compatible with 2.x. See the LDAP and SQL modules for new connection pools, for example. The debug output is colorized, with yellow WARNINGS and red ERRORS. This should help people understand which messages are important and need attention. RADIUS over TLS (RadSec) is supported. This means RADIUS has actual security, instead of the 20 year-old MD5 weirdness. Many configuration errors are caught at startup, rather than run time. Helpful messages are printed, including a pointer to which character caused the error. The raddb/ directory has been re-organized. The files should now be easier to find, as they use a consistent layout. DHCP and VMPS are still supported, but their code has been moved to plug-in modules. We expect to continue this process for the 3.1 release. The goal is to move RADIUS to a plug-in module. The server will then be capable of handling many more protocols. We have a number of new protocols in development, and will be announcing them later this year. SNMP traps are now supported. You can trigger a trap when a home server goes down, and when it comes back up again! While supporting many new features, the code is almost 10% smaller than version 2.2. In addition, it has daily builds on multiple platforms, including automatic static source code analysis. This means that the code is smaller, more secure, and easier to maintain. We'd like to add a special thanks to the Samba project, for the talloc library. Many of the new features we made possible by talloc. We expect more features in the future. Alan DeKok. FreeRADIUS Project Leader