Vuurmuur 0.5.65 released

Greetings!

After much feedback and ideas from people on the list and off the mailinglist finally a new release. Highlights of this release are:

- transparent proxy support
- support for custom userdefined chains
- improved filtering in the logviewer
- added filtering to the connection viewer
- snat rules can select an outgoing interface now
- horizontal separators (with comments) in the rules screen
- Brazilian Portuguese translation was contributed by Hugo Ribeiro
- lots of bugfixes

Also, there is a big change in how the rules and the blocklist are stored, so please backup those files first!

Please note! There has been a change in the source installer. If your configuration directory is '/etc/vuurmuur' then you now need to enter '/etc' in the installer.

As a reminder, here is the link to the Quick Setup Guide written by Philippe Baumgart: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114382&package_id=150383

The release can be downloaded at SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114382

Full Changelog:

0.5.65 (2005-05-18)
Added support for transparent proxy's by allowing redirect rules to have a non-firewall destination as well.
Merged the libvuurmuur and plugins source trees, and vuurmuur and vuurmuur_log source trees.
Improved detection and reporting of problems in the configuration.
If opening the backends failed when starting Vuurmuur_conf, the user can now edit the config instead of just exitting.
Moved the rules and the blocklist into the plugin structure.
Added a new 'Chain' action, which enables support for chains left alone by Vuurmuur. Only packets with state NEW will be sent there. The chains will be created if they don't exist.
Fixed a crash with trying to add a member to a group when there are no hosts in that network. Thanx for the report Heiko!
Added an about screen in Vuurmuur_conf.
Added 'firewall(any)' which is useful for creating INPUT rules where you need to connect to the external ipaddress of the firewall from your lan.
In the rules section you can now add horizontal lines with the L key. Press enter on a line to add a comment to it.
Fixed some bugs in the rule parser.
Changed the way the topmenu is drawn, so it will be easier to change it.
Removed the ESC key in Vuurmuur_conf as a key to quit because there is a delay between pressing it and the action that needs to follow it.
Fixed a confusing error message when not all required fields of a rule are filled in. Thanx for the report Edgar.
Vuurmuur now creates the logdir if it doesn't exist.
Vuurmuur_log now removes it's pidfile when it receives a sigterm. Thanx for the report Holger.
The macaddress is now properly checked and saved in Vuurmuur_conf. Thank you for reporting Heiko.
Added the ability to show the loglines that don't match the filter string.
Added the possibility to filter in the connections screen.
Snat rules can now also limit the interface which will be used.
Disabled the --test run of iptables-restore, since it did not work correctly on Debian Woody, and iptables-restore works atomicly, so there is no real need for the test.
Added a Brazilian Portuguese translation contributed by Hugo Ribeiro. Thanx Hugo!