Hello Alex,

The unification process is far from complete. Please consider Beta 1 as "a good 
first step". I don't expect to release 4.5.0 for a couple of months yet.

Thanks,
-Tom

On Jan 3, 2012, at 3:13 AM, alex wrote:

>   Hello Tom,
> 
>   Thank you very much for new features and possibilities, but very sad that 
> you didn't unified install/uninstall scripts for IPv4 and IPv6 versions in 
> new branch, all the more so work was done already (I sent you new fixed 
> versions).
>    I hoped this can decrease troubles for users during installation.
> 
> 
>   Regards,
>   Alex
> 
> 
> 
> 2012/1/2 Tom Eastep <[email protected]>
> Happy New Year, everyone.
> 
> With the new year, comes a new major version of Shorewall. The reasons
> for opening a new version are:
> 
>     1. The packaging and dependencies have changed in this release.
>     2. There are minor migration issues.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  I.  P R O B L E M S   C O R R E C T E D   I N   T H I S  R E L E A S E
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 1)  The start and restart commands in Shorewall Lite and Shorewall6
>    Lite now correctly handle the 'trace' and 'debug'
>    keywords. Previously, those keywords were ignored.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>           I I.  K N O W N   P R O B L E M S   R E M A I N I N G
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 1)  On systems running Upstart, shorewall-init cannot reliably secure
>    the firewall before interfaces are brought up.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      I I I.  N E W   F E A T U R E S   I N   T H I S  R E L E A S E
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 1)  The rules generated by the following interface options are now
>    traversed after those generated by the blrules file.
> 
>        dhcp
>        maclist
>        nosmurfs
>        sfilter
>        tcpflags
> 
>    As part of this change, the BLACKLIST section in the rules file has
>    been eliminated. If you have rules in that section, you must move
>    them to the blrules file prior to installing this Shorewall
>    version.
> 
> 2)  The timeout interval after which the previous state is restored
>    may now be specified in the safe-start and safe-restart commands.
> 
> 3)  The packing of the Shorewall products has been changed. Beginning
>    with this release, the packages are:
> 
>    - Shorewall Core  -- Core libraries installed in
>                         /usr/share/shorewall/
> 
>    - Shorewall       -- Requires Shorewall Core. Together with
>                         Shorewall Core, provides IPv4 firewalling.
> 
>    - Shorewall6      -- Requires Shorewall. Provides IPv6 firewalling.
> 
>    - Shorewall Lite  -- Requires Shorewall Core. As before.
> 
>    - Shorewall6 Lite -- Requires Shorewall Core. As before.
> 
>    - Shorewall Init  -- As before.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                   V.  M I G R A T I O N   I S S U E S
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 1)  If you are migrating from Shorewall 4.2.x or earlier, please see
> 
> http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/4.4/shorewall-4.4.27/releasenotes.txt
> 
> 2)  The BLACKLIST section of the rules file has been eliminated.
>    If you have entries in that file section, you must move them to the
>    blrules file.
> 
> 3)  This version of Shorewall requires the Digest::SHA1 Perl module.
> 
>        Debian: lib-digest-sha1-perl
>        Fedora: perl-Digest-SHA1
>        OpenSuSE: perl-Digest-SHA1
> 
> 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
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Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
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