[Shorewall-devel] Shorewall 4.6.4 Beta 2

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

Shorewall 4.6.4 Beta 2 is now available for testing. It comes shortly
after Beta 1, but there are a couple of changes that I want feedback on.

Problems Corrected since Beta 1:

1)  A warning message generated during stoppedrules processing
    previously referred to the file as routestopped.

2)  Previously, the stoppedrules file did not work properly when
    ADMINISABSENTMINDED=No.

    - A warning message was issued stating that the file would be
      processed as if ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, and it was.

    - Unfortunately, part of the surrounding rule-generating logic
      proceded as if ADMINISABSENTMINDED=No, leading to an unusable
      ruleset.

    This problem has been corrected by changing the way that
    stoppedrules works with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=No. In the new
    implementation:

    - All existing connections continue to work.
    - Response packets and related connection requests to new accepted
      connections are accepted (in other words, the resulting ruleset
      is stateful).

    See shorewall[6].conf(5) for additional details.

New Features since Beta 1:

3)  A LOG_BACKEND option has been added to allow specification of the
    default logging backends. See shorewall.conf(5) and
    shorewall6.conf(5) for details.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks for testing,
-Tom
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