firewalld-0.3.12

Jiri Popelka jpopelka at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 14:39:06 UTC 2014


Hi everybody,

here's firewalld-0.3.12
https://fedorahosted.org/released/firewalld/firewalld-0.3.12.tar.bz2
sha1sum:      265fab1899b600f9f1dead109ef5d53143aba6cb

Changelog:
The most visible change is a new feature, which allows you to
save active runtime configuration and overwrite permanent configuration 
with it.
The way this is supposed to work is that when configuring firewalld you 
do runtime changes only and
once you're happy with the configuration and you tested that it works 
the way you want, you save
the configuration to disk.

You do that by running:
$ firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent
or selecting 'Runtime To Permanent' in firewall-config menu.
(while I'm writing this I've noticed that it's not documented in 
firewall-cmd man page and
also the firewall-config says 'permant' instead of 'permanent' - but 
that needs to wait for another release)

Second most significant change (even not visible to end users)
is that D-Bus interfaces for permanent changes are now
more fine grained and there are new methods for permanent
changes of zones, services, icmptypes, direct and policies (lockdown 
whitelist)
so the permanent interfaces are more in sync with runtime ones.

Other changes:
- firewalld:
   - richLanguage: allow using destination with forward-port
   - Rich_Rule.check(): action can't be used with 
icmp-block/forward-port/masquerade
   - fixed Python specific D-Bus exception (RHBZ#1132441)
- firewall-cmd:
   - use new D-Bus methods for permanent changes
   - show target REJECT instead of %%REJECT%% (RHBZ#1058794)
   - --direct: make fail messages consistent (RHBZ#1141835)
- firewall-config:
   - richRuleDialog - OK button tooltip indicates problem
   - use new D-Bus methods for permanent changes
   - show target REJECT instead of %%REJECT%% (RHBZ#1058794)
   - update "Change Zones of Connections" menu on default zone change 
(RHBZ#11120212)
   - fixed rename of zones, services and icmptypes to not create new 
entry (RBHZ#1131064)
- configuration:
   - new service for Squid HTTP proxy server
   - new service for Kerberos admin server
   - new services for syslog and syslog-tls
   - new services for SNMP and SNMP traps
   - add Keywords to .desktop to improve software searchability
- docs:
   - updated translations
   - firewalld.richlanguage: improvements suggested by Rufe Glick
   - firewalld.dbus: various improvements
   - firewalld.zone: better description of Limit tag
   - mention new homepage everywhere

Enjoy,
Jiri


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