From 03097fb185e9ecfffae865ac6484e5711e18c3cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: teastep Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:52:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update release documents git-svn-id: https://shorewall.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shorewall/trunk@9181 fbd18981-670d-0410-9b5c-8dc0c1a9a2bb --- Shorewall-common/changelog.txt | 6 +++++ Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Shorewall-common/changelog.txt b/Shorewall-common/changelog.txt index 67df0f72a..784c7ae7b 100644 --- a/Shorewall-common/changelog.txt +++ b/Shorewall-common/changelog.txt @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Changes in Shorewall 4.2.4-RC3 + +1) Fix exclusion handling with certain hosts options. + +2) Rework zone exclusion to more accurately model what the user specifies. + Changes in Shorewall 4.2.4-RC2 1) Update samples. diff --git a/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt b/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt index 9fd60d682..a16bc1a8c 100644 --- a/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt +++ b/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Shorewall 4.2.4-RC2 +Shorewall 4.2.4 RC3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- R E L E A S E 4 . 2 H I G H L I G H T S @@ -20,23 +20,50 @@ Shorewall 4.2.4-RC2 7) Support for IPv6 is available beginning with Shorewall 4.2.4. - Minimun system requirements: + Minimun system requirements for IPv6 support: - Kernel 2.6.25 or later. - iptables 1.4.0 or later with 1.4.1 strongly recommended. - Perl 5.10 if you wish to use DNS names in your IPv6 config files. In that case you will also have to install Perl Socket6 support. -Problems Corrected in 4.2.4-RC2 +Problems Corrected in 4.2.4 RC3 -1) The IPv6 sample configurations have been extensively reworked. +1) Previously, when exclusion was used in an entry in + /etc/shorewall/hosts, Shorewall-perl ignored the exclusion when + generating rules for the following OPTIONS in that entry: + + blacklist + maclist + norfc1918 + tcpflags -2) Special handling of 2000::/3 routes has been removed. Use 'default' - routes instead. +2) Shorewall-perl previously promoted all exclusion in the + /etc/shorewall/hosts file to the zone level. That meant that + all traffic to/from the zone passed through exclusion rules + rather than only the traffic matching a hosts records that + specified exclusion. -3) When a zone was not specified in an entry in - /etc/shorewall/interfaces, the Shorewall-perl compiler could fail - with ERROR: Unknown Zone (). + Example /etc/shorewall/hosts: + + z eth0:192.168.4.0/24 + z eth1:10.0.0.0/24!10.0.0.99 + + Traffic entering eth0 from network 192.168.4.0/24 would still + be checked for '!10.0.0.99'. + + This has been corrected. + +Known Problems Remaiining: + +1) When exclusion is used in an entry in /etc/shorewall/hosts, then + Shorewall-shell produces an invalid iptables rule if any of the + following OPTIONS are also specified in the entry: + + blacklist + maclist + norfc1918 + tcpflags New Features in Shorewall 4.2.4.