Vyatta announced Tuesday that Vyatta Community Edition 2 (VC2) is now available for download from the Vyatta web site. Edition 2 is reportedly the newest community-supported release of Vyatta’s open-source router/firewall product that is freely-available.

VC2 delivers improved performance and hardware compatibility as compared to the previous release. The new release also enables greater community innovation through its compatibility with Debian GNU/Linux.

The Community Edition is distinct from Vyatta’s commercially-supported Subscription Edition and is supported by the Vyatta “Secret Society,” a community of more than 10,000 users and developers.

As a commercial-grade release, the Subscription Edition is focused on stable enterprise network operations. On the other hand the Community Edition is intended to foster innovation as a testing ground for the very latest community-developed features.

The Subscription Edition is recommended by Vyatta for all production deployments. The features are developed and stabilized in the Community Edition, and therefore they will be introduced and productized into the Subscription Edition for production deployment.

“VC2 is the result of collaboration between Vyatta developers and the growing Vyatta community,” said Dave Roberts, VP of strategy and marketing at Vyatta in a press release.

He continued: “VC2 represents a huge jump in capabilities and performance. In switching to a Debian-compatible foundation, VC2 lays the groundwork for increased community innovation and package integration capabilities. We think the Vyatta community will be pleased with this release.”

The community release boasts many features including Debian GNU/Linux compatibility, improved performance, improved serial interface support, improved hardware detection and compatibility and experimental support for multicast routing and IPv6.

The company plans to release Future Community Editions in ISO format twice yearly with intermediate updates providing new functionality.

Vyatta was created to bring commercial-quality, open-source networking products to market.

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