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# [Let’s talk about SELKS 2.1](https://www.stamus-networks.com/blog/2015/09/02/lets-talk-about-selks-2-1)

 Written by [Peter Manev](https://www.stamus-networks.com/blog/author/peter-manev) | Sep 2, 2015 10:12:00 PM

 

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of SELKS 2.1  release.

SELKS is both Live and installable Network Security Management ISO based on Debian implementing and focusing on a complete and ready to use Suricata IDS/IPS ecosystem with its own graphic rule manager. Stamus Networks is a proud member of the Open Source community and SELKS is released under GPLv3 license.

This is a major SELKS upgrade.

#### New Features

- [Elasticsearch 1.7](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-1-7-0)  - upgrade from 1.5 (security fixes and faster recovery after restart)
- [Scirius 1.1](https://www.stamus-networks.com/2015/08/12/scirius-1-1/?hsLang=en) - upgrade from 1.0 (suricata and logstash performance stats)
- [Logstash 1.5.4](https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-1-5-4-and-1-4-5-released) - upgrade from 1.4 (performance improvement  
   in JSON handling and better security)

 

#### Some screenshot examples

<https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Screenshot-from-2015-08-03-18-55-18.png?hsLang=en>

<https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Screenshot-from-2015-08-08-19-08-41.png?hsLang=en><https://www.stamus-networks.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Screenshot-from-2015-08-08-19-05-36.png?hsLang=en>

 

#### UPGRADE from SELKS 2.0

For those that use SELKS 2.0 and would like to do an in place upgrade to SELKS 2.1 you can follow [THIS GUIDE](https://github.com/StamusNetworks/SELKS/wiki/SELKS-2.0-to-SELKS-2.1-upgrades).

**NOTE:** Please make sure that you test the upgrade in your test/QA environment first before doing it on your production systems.

Please note that default login/password for HTTPS access (Dashboards or Scirius icons) is `selks-user/selks-user`.

#### More about SELKS 2.1

- [Download SELKS 2.1](https://www.stamus-networks.com/open-source/?hsLang=en)
- Documentation: [Howto and README ](https://github.com/StamusNetworks/SELKS/tree/jessie)
- More information and news: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/StamusN/), [Google+](https://plus.google.com/+Stamus-networks/) and [Github](https://github.com/StamusNetworks)
- Get help on Freenode IRC on the #SELKS channel and/or  [Google Mailing list](http://groups.google.com/d/forum/selks).

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