Shorewall 4.5.18 Beta 1 is now available for testing.
There is nothing much new here, but I wanted early exposure of a couple of
changes to features introduced in 4.5.17.
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1) This release includes all defect repair from Shorewall 4.5.17.1.
2) The following warning message could be emitted inappropriately when
running shorewall 4.5.17.
The rule(s) generated by this entry are unreachable and have been
discarded
These warnings, which were disabled in Shorewall 4.5.17.1, are now
only emitted where appropriate.
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1) On systems running Upstart, shorewall-init cannot reliably secure
the firewall before interfaces are brought up.
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1) ''NONE'' policies are now instantiated for to/from all
''local'' zone
and zones other than the firewall. Similarly, ''NONE''
policies are
instantiated to/from all ''loopback'' zones to zones other
than $FW
and other ''loopback'' zones.
This provides a cleaner implementation than the one provided in
Shorewall 4.5.17, and one that should be easier to maintain going
forward.
Thank you for testing,
-Tom
Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who
Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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