I've built Shorewall 3.4.4 and uploaded it to http://www1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/development/staging/3.4/shorewall-3.4.4/.
There have been a large number of problems corrected in Shorewall 4.0.0 that are also present in Shorewall 3.4.3. These are problems in the base Shorewall release or in the shell-based compiler and are not related to Shorewall-perl. To make these changes available in 3.4, I decided to base the 3.4.4 release on 4.0.0-Beta5 (which will be released this weekend) rather than on 3.4.3. While that may sound scary, it really isn't: a) The basis for Shorewall 4.0 was Shorewall 3.4.2. b) Other than the bug fixes, the changes in 4.0 are to support Shorewall Perl; the main difference between the two releases is the way in which the Perl-based compiler gets launched and the directory where the shell-based compiler is installed. Reverting the shell compiler back into the /usr/share/shorewall/ directory was a one-line change and changes to the way that the Perl-based compiler gets launched are not relevant unless you choose to use Shorewall-perl. Plus, those changes have been exhaustively tested by Steven Springl and others. c) There was one change in 4.0 that involved migration considerations; I've removed that change from 3.4.4 so that the upgrade from 3.4.3->3.4.4 can be a transparent one. It was my considered opinion that this approach was much less prone to error than the alternative which would have been to try to move a dozen different changes from 4.0 back into 3.4.3 to produce 3.4.4. In addition, it will make Roberto's job much easier going forward since the two major releases are now closely aligned. I'm making 3.4.4 available to the Shorewall development community prior to it's actual release in the hopes that experienced users will install it and report any problems that they find. Thanks! -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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