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release 1.100.0-rc1 is aimed at affectionate users who like and still wish to run IPFIRE-wall on recent kernels (should build up to version 3.9, build not tested on 3.6.x).

No functionalities have been added, no bugs have been fixed. Sorry, the project is old... no time to maintain...

Don't even know if it builds on all distributions. I'll try to make it build at least on ubuntu and debian distributions. Works on gentoo linux.

IPFIRE-wall 1.99.8 adds support for linux kernel 2.6.32.
No other changes are involved.
Update if you need support for that kernel version.

On Wednesday, November, 4th, the release IPFIRE-wall-1.99.7 was released.
This version supports ubuntu 9.10 with its new 2.6.31 kernel.

No updates involve the "iqfire" graphical interface.

People who installed ubuntu or kubuntu 9.10 are interested in the
upgrade, and everyone who is running kernel 2.6.31.

IPFIRE-wall version 1.99.6 has been released on 2009-31-08.
The most relevant changes concern kernel code:
- checksum calculation reviewed and optimized;
- fragmented packets are now correctly treated and reassembled before being processed. This ensures that no network packet is lost during firewall operations (ipfi_defrag)
- basic support for IPPROTO_GRE: network layer only;

Changes in GUI:
- improved kernel state tables representation: the rule name field is now shown in the 11th column of the widget;
- corrected a bug in the Rule View right click->add rule menu;
- plots improved;
- started migration of system tray messages towards KDE4 KNotification system (will be visible in the next release).... read more

First corrections to the ubuntu-8.10 ipfire-wall installer.

IPFIRE-wall-0.99.4 has been packaged into two versions for ubuntu users:
- ipfire-wall-0.99.4ubuntu_8.10_i386.deb, for fresh ubuntu 8.10 intrepid installations, and
- IPFIRE-wall-0.99.4ubuntu_source.deb for other ubuntu versions (8.04 and 7.10 too, the latter only if KDE4 repositories are enabled).

The second package builds ipfire-wall from its sources, first installing all dependencies needed, while the second installs binary packages for the executables, but still compiling kernel sources. The last choice has been done so that it is easy to install ipfire-wall also after various distribution updates, that often change the kernel version.... read more

Released IPFIRE-wall-0.99.4, with support for kernel 2.6.28 and corrections made to OUTPUT DNAT checksum calculation.
Update if you are running a linux kernel version 2.6.28 or if you have experienced issues in OUTPUT Destination Address Translation.

The installation of the IPFIRE-wall suite performed yesterday on a debian system dating back to March 2006 took these steps:

1. editing /etc/sources.list:
* adding unstable and experimental branches:

deb ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

2. executing `apt-get update'

3. executing apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-dev kdelibs5 kdelibs5-dev libqwt5-qt4 libqwt5-qt4-dev... read more

iqfire-wall is not already complete: some documentation is missing and the software is frequently updated to correct bugs and improve some feature...
Download the software from CVS repository if you want to be sure that you have the most up to date version available.
To get information about how to use/download from the sourceforge.net CVS repository, select from the upper menu the entry Code->CVS.... read more

For documentation and latest news, please visit

http://www.giacomos.it/iqfire/index.html

and

http://www.giacomos.it/ipfire/index.html

On April, 22nd, 2008, iqfire-wall is published!
IQFIRE-wall is a Qt4-based graphical user interface, based on the ipfire-wall kernel module, longly tested with the ipfire-wall command line interface.
With iqfire-wall it will be extremely easy to configure rules and manage your personal firewall with few mouse clicks!
Just try out this first beta version and give feedback to the author (or even donate ;)