On Tuesday 26 June 2007 19:19:37 Tom Eastep wrote: > It has been my intention to continue the beta period for 4.0 through the > summer and to release 4.0 in the September time frame. Several factors have > caused me to rethink that schedule. > > - The rate of problem reports against Shorewall-perl has dropped rapidly > and the code seems to be quite stable. > - The 4.0 Documentation has come together more quickly than I had planned. > - 3.4 and 4.0 are now on nearly identical code bases except for > Shorewall-perl. I have patch files to make up for the differences so it > is now possible to make maintenance updates to 3.4 and roll those updates > into 4.0 with almost no additional effort. > > In light of these factors, I'm thinking of producing one more 4.0 Beta > release then releasing 4.0.0 RC1. Assuming that the release candidate > doesn't encounter problems, I would anticipate final release some time in > late July or early August. > > Because supporting 3.4 will not present any burden over supporting 4.0, I > plan to break the "two supported releases" rule and to support 3.2, 3.4 and > 4.0 until 4.2 comes along. > > Comments?
Tom; the continued support for 3.4 is appreciated. Speaking for the bering-uclibc branch of LEAF the Perl-based 4.0 is somewhat too big to go with it - I know times are changing and so does the boot medias :) - both may be considered as good. I started with seawall and it also took some time to upgrade to shorewall - so maybe history repeats itself. Thx very much for giving us shorewall and outstanding support. And hopefully a perl-based shorewall is worth the effort for you to move to a new language. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
