Shorewall announce - Feb 2005 - Shorewall 2.2.1

This release just rolls up the fixes for the few problems that have
surfaced in the first two to three weeks of Shorewall 2.2 availability.
If 2.2.0 is working ok for you, there is no reason to upgrade.

So far I''ve been very pleased with the stability of the 2.2 release and
attribute much of that to the new release model.

http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.1
ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.1

Problems corrected:

1) The /etc/shorewall/policy file contained a misleading comment and
both that file and the /etc/shorewall/zones file lacked examples.

2) Shorewall previously used root''s default umask which could cause
files in /var/lib/shorewall to be world-readable. Shorewall now uses
umask 0177.

3) In log messages produced by logging a built-in action, the packet
disposition was displayed incorrectly.

   Example:

            rejNotSyn:ULOG      all     all             tcp

   produces the log message:

            Feb 12 23:57:08 server Shorewall:rejNotSyn:ULOG: ...

   rather than

            Feb 12 23:57:08 server Shorewall:rejNotSyn:REJECT: ...

4) The comments regarding built-in actions in
/usr/share/shorewall/actions.std have been corrected.

5) The /etc/shorewall/policy file in the LRP package was missing the
''all->all'' policy.

-Tom
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Tom Eastep wrote:
> This release just rolls up the fixes for the few problems that have
> surfaced in the first two to three weeks of Shorewall 2.2 availability.
> If 2.2.0 is working ok for you, there is no reason to upgrade.
> 
> So far I''ve been very pleased with the stability of the 2.2
release and
> attribute much of that to the new release model.
> 
Mandrake packages are up: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/net/shorewall

Thanks Tom,
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