1) On systems running Upstart, shorewall-init cannot reliably start the firewall before interfaces are brought up. 2) The date/time formatting in the STARTUP_LOG is not uniform. Fixed in 4.4.13.1 3) The blacklisting change in 4.4.13 broke blacklisting in some simple configurations with the effect that blacklisting was not enabled. Fixed in 4.4.13.1 The issue may also be worked around is follows. If you currently have an entry similar to this in /etc/shorewall/interfaces: #ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS net eth0 detect blacklist,... then remove the 'blacklist' option from that entry and change the 'net' entry in /etc/shorewall/zones as follows: #ZONE TYPE OPTIONS IN_OPTIONS net ipv4 - blacklist