Firewall Builder Release Notes
Version 2.1.17
Released 02/20/2008
GUI and compilers v2.1.17 require API library libfwbuilder version 2.1.17
Summary
This is a bug-fix release. It improves stablility of the policy
importer on 64-bit platforms, supports import of iptables policies
that use TCPMSS target, fixes problems with built-in RCS on windows
when user does not have administrator's rights and comes with nearly
100% Brazilian Portugese translation
For those who wish to build from source, instructions are outlined
in the document "Install and Build instructions" on our web site here
The GUI code is in the freeze for QT4 conversion. I will fix bugs in
policy compilers but will try to avoid changes in the GUI. New GUI
based on QT4 will be released next spring when KDE4 is included in all
major Linux distributions and FreeBSD. There will be bugfix releases
for v2.1 if necessary.
Improvements and bug fixes in the GUI
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Jose Carlos Medeiros
<jose@psabs.com.br>
- more for the bug #1816798: "Installing policy on PIX 501
fails". The fix that was made for v2.1.16 did not cover test-mode
install, which is now fixed too. Command "terminal pager " is
valid only for PIX 7.x and caused error while installing policy on
PIX 6.3. Removed this command from the install sequence, it was
not essential.
- fixed bug #1849392: "RCS using windows 2003 without
administrator rights". Pass TMP and TEMP environment variables to
RCS tools
- Fixed bug 1883536: "fwbuilder segfaults when importing iptables
conf". Added support for TCPMSS target with
option --clamp-mss-to-pmtu in iptables importer; also made
importer upderstand option
--tcp-option but skip it since it is not supported in fwbuilder.
- fixed bug #1886570: Diagnostic related to
Edit->Preferences. Removed harmless but annoying error message
that appeared on stderr when user opened Preferences dialog.
- fixed crash of the policy importer on 64-bit systems. This fixes
bug #1886575: "Seg Fault on reading vanilla Fedora iptables
file". See comment in module CircularQueue.hpp for details.