From b331a2432f52d70b77791e412c0a6230bb5c4502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: teastep Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:43:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] More release note changes git-svn-id: https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk@6797 fbd18981-670d-0410-9b5c-8dc0c1a9a2bb --- Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt b/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt index 3bdef4d4f..3e07786f6 100644 --- a/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt +++ b/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt @@ -113,17 +113,17 @@ Migration Considerations: caused the corresponding flag in /proc to be reset for all interfaces. Beginning in Shorewall 4.0.0, leaving these options empty causes Shorewall to leave the flags in /proc as they are. You - must set the option to 'No' in order to obtain the old behavior. + must set the option to 'No' in order to obtain the old behavior. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W F E A T U R E S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Shorewall-perl - This companion product to Shorewall 3.4.2 and later includes a complete - rewrite of the compiler in Perl. + This Shorewall package includes a complete rewrite of the compiler + in Perl. - I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate product for several reasons: + I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate package for several reasons: a) Embedded applications are unlikely to adopt Shorewall-perl; even Mini-Perl has a substantial disk and RAM footprint. @@ -137,7 +137,10 @@ Migration Considerations: b) The compiler is very fast. c) The compiler generates a firewall script that uses iptables-restore; so the script is very fast. - d) Use of the perl compiler is optional! The old slow clunky + d) The new compiler does a much better job of validating the + configuration and catches many errors that resulted in run-time + failures with the old compiler. + e) Use of the Shorewall-perl is optional! The old slow clunky Bourne-shell compiler is still available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ T H E B A D N E W S: