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| Netfilter Core Team <coreteam@netfilter.org> |
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| Subject: |
| Release of iptables-1.3.6 |
| Date: |
| Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:21:09 +0200 |
| Cc: |
| lwn@lwn.net |
Hi!
The netfilter coreteam proudly presents:
iptables version 1.3.6
The 1.3.6 version contains accumulated bugfixes to the last 1.3.5
version.
The ChangeLog is attached to this mail.
Version 1.3.6 can be obtained from:
http://www.netfilter.org/files/iptables-1.3.6.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/iptables/iptables-1.3.6.tar.bz2
More information can be found at the netfilter/iptables project homepage,
available at:
http://www.netfilter.org/
Happy firewalling,
[As a personal side note, I'd like to add that even though I'm sending
off this announcement, I haven't really been very active at
netfilter.org for the last months. This release really should be
attributed to Patrick McHardy and all our contributors]
--
- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> http://www.netfilter.org/
============================================================================
"Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
Bugs fixed since 1.3.5:
- Fix segfault on loading of invalid counters in ip[6]tables-restore
[ Bugzilla #437, Olaf Rempel ]
- Fix double-free if a single match is used multiple times within a single rule
[ Bugzilla #440, Harald Welte ]
- Don't try to resolve "-p all" using getprotoent()
[ Bugzilla #446, Harald Welte ]
- Refuse never matching protocol specifications for ip6tables
[ Yasuyuki Kozakai ]
- Fix iptables-save output of osf match
[ Daniel De Graaf ]
- Fix esp/connbytes detection with newer kernels (x_tables)
[ Harald Welte ]
- Fix loading of IPCMv6 match shared library
[ Yasuyuki Kozakai ]
- Refuse invalid esp match SPI ranges
[ Yasuyuki Kozakai ]
- Fix out-of-bounds memory access when the unsupported "check" command was used
[ Bugzilla #463, Larry Stefani, Harald Welte ]
- Fix out-of-bounds memory access when the "-c" option was used
[ Bugzilla #462, Larry Stefani, Harald Welte ]
- Fix "Unknown error 4294967295" message
[ Bugzilla #460, Patrick McHardy ]
- Use lower-case letters for realm match output
[ Simon Lodal ]
- Fix example in connlimit manpage
[ Phil Oester ]
- Refuse IP addresses as arguments to REDIRECT target
[ Bugzilla #482, Phil Oester ]
- Fix set match negation
[ Jozsef Kadlecsik ]
- Fix some compiler warnings
[ Bugzilla #457, Phil Oester ]
- Refuse port ranges in ip6tables multiport match
[ Bugzilla #451, Phil Oester ]
- Force user to specify --ipcmv6-type if ipcmv6 match is used
[ Bugzilla #461, Yasuyuki Kozakai ]
- Fix libiptc symbol clash
[ Bugzilla #456, Phil Oester ]
- Remove "hoho" message
[ Pierre-Yves Ritschard ]
- Handle CIDR notation more sanely
[ Bugzilla #422, Phil Oester ]
- Fix chain reference increment bug
[ Jesper Brouer ]
- Fix counter clearing for policy counters
[ Bugzilla #502, Andy Gay ]
- Remove warnings about interface names with non-alphanumeric characters
[ Patrick McHardy ]
New features since 1.3.5:
- Support multiple matches of the same type within a single rule
[ Jozsef Kadlecsik ]
- DCCP/SCTP support for multiport match (needs kernel >= 2.6.18)
[ Patrick McHardy ]
- SELinux SECMARK target (needs kernel >= 2.6.18)
[ James Morris ]
- SELinux CONNSECMARK target (needs kernel >= 2.6.18)
[ James Morris ]
- Add documentation for DNAT target :<port> syntax
[ Evan Miller ]
- Add new exit value to indicate concurrency issues
[ Jesper Dangaard Brouer ]
- Use gcc to build shared objects
[ Bugzilla #454, Phil Oester ]
- Update quota match for version in current kernel, fix -D (needs kernel >= 2.6.18)
[ Phil Oester ]
- Update MARK target documentation to include --and-mask/--or-mask
[ Eric Leblond ]
- Add support for statistic match (needs kernel >= 2.6.18)
[ Patrick McHardy ]
- Optionally read realm values from /etc/iproute2/rt_realms
[ Simon Lodal ]