Beta 4 is now available for testing. Changes in this version include:

Problems Corrected:

1)  Previously, when a device number was explicitly specified in
    /etc/shorewall/tcdevices, all unused numbers less than the one
    specified were unavailable for allocation to following entries that
    did not specify a number. Now, the compiler selects the lowest
    unallocated number when no device number is explicitly allocated.

2)  Problem in Beta 3 that resulted in these failures:

        ERROR: Internal error in Shorewall::Chains::new_chain
        at /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Chains.pm line 1200

        Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>)
        at /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Chains.pm line 814.

        ERROR: Internal error in        
        Shorewall::Chains::decrement_reference_count
        at /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Chains.pm line 814

New Features:

1)  There are audited versions of the standard Default Actions
    named ADrop and AReject. Note that these audit everything that
    they do so you will probably want to make your own copies and
    modify them to only audit the packets that you care about.

2)  Significant work has been done toward unifying the sources for
    /sbin/shorewall and /sbin/shorewall6. This work should be   
    transparent to users so please report any issues that you find
    with either program.

3)  Shorewall and Shorewall6 no longer have a dependence on 'make'.

4)  Up to this release, the behaviors of 'start -f' and 'restart -f'
    has been inconsistent. The 'start -f' command  compares the
    modification times of /etc/shorewall[6] with
    /var/lib/shorewall[6]/restore while 'restart -f' compares with
    /var/lib/shorewall[6]/firewall.

    To make the two consistent, a new LEGACY_FASTSTART option has been
    added. The default value when the option isn't specified is
    LEGACY_FASTSTART=Yes which preserves the old behavior. When
    LEGACY_FASTSTART=No, 'start -f' and 'restart -f' compare with
    /var/lib/shorewall[6]/firewall.

5)  A '-c' (compile) option has been added to the 'restart'
    command in both Shorewall and Shorewall6. It overrides the setting
    of AUTOMAKE and unconditionally forces a recompilation of the
    configuration.

    When both -c and -f are specified, the result is determined by the
    option that appears last.

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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