I am pleased to announce the availability of Shorewall 3.2.0. This release introduces a major change in the way that Shorewall processes its configuration files. In older versions of Shorewall, the configuration files were parsed and iptables commands were executed as a single step. In 3.2.0, the files are parsed and a "compiled" firewall script is generated; if generation of the script is error-free, then the script is executed as a separate step. The net result is that the period of time during which the firewall is not accepting new connections is dramatically reduced. Separating compilation from execution also allows for managing Shorewall configurations centrally. Shorewall may be installed on a single system in the network and all firewall configurations may be kept on that system. Firewall scripts are compiled on the central system then copied to the firewall systems where they may be run under the control of a new product, "Shorewall Lite". Please see http://www.shorewall.net/CompiledPrograms.html for details. There are many other new features included in 3.2.0 -- please review the attached release notes carefully before attempting to upgrade. Shorewall and Shorewall Lite 3.2.0 are available at the main download site and at mirrors world wide. I am currently uploading the release to Sourceforge. -Tom PS -- there are two release notes attached -- the first is for Shorewall; the second is for Shorewall Lite. -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642