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. 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