Beta 6 is now available for testing. Pay close attention to the
Blacklisting change in this release; static blacklisting is incompatible
with blacklisting in Beta 5.

Problems corrected:

1)  'shorewall clear' (and 'shorewall6 clear') now work again (broken
    in Beta 5).

2)  To work around an issue in Netfilter/iptables, Shorewall now uses
    state match rather than conntrack match for UNTRACKED state
    matching.

New Features:

1)  Blacklisting has undergone considerable change in Shorewall 4.4.13.

    a) Blacklisting is now based on zones rather than on interfaces and
       host groups.

    b) Near compatibility with earlier releases is maintained.

    c) The keywords 'src' and 'dst' are now preferred in the OPTIONS
       column in /etc/shoreawll/blacklist, replacing 'from' and 'to'
       respectively. The old keywords are still supported.

    d) The 'blacklist' keyword may now appear in the OPTIONS,
       IN_OPTIONS and OUT_OPTIONS fields in /etc/shorewall/zones.

       i)  In the IN_OPTIONS column, it indicates that packets received
           on the interface are checked against the 'src' entries in
           /etc/shorewall/blacklist.

       ii) In the OUT_OPTIONS column, it indicates that packets being
           sent to the interface are checked against the 'dst' entries.

       iii) Placing 'blacklist' in the OPTIONS column is equivalent to
           placing in in both the IN_OPTIONS and OUT_OPTIONS columns.

    e) The 'blacklist' option in the OPTIONS column of
       /etc/shorewall/interfaces or /etc/shorewall/hosts is now
       equivalent to placing it in the IN_OPTIONS column of the
       associates record in /etc/shorewall/zones. If no zone is given
       in the ZONE column of /etc/shorewall/interfaces, the 'blacklist'
       option is ignored with a warning (it was previously ignored
       silently).

    f) The 'blacklist' option in the /etc/shorewall/interfaces and
       /etc/shorewall/hosts files is now deprecated but will continue
       to be supported for several releases. A warning will be added at
       least one release before support is removed.


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Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________

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