                         Firewall Builder Release Notes

Version 2.1.17

   Released 02/20/2008
   GUI and compilers v2.1.17 require API library libfwbuilder version 2.1.17

Summary

   This is a bug-fix release. It improves stablility of the policy importer
   on 64-bit platforms, supports import of iptables policies that use TCPMSS
   target, fixes problems with built-in RCS on windows when user does not
   have administrator's rights and comes with nearly 100% Brazilian Portugese
   translation

   For those who wish to build from source, instructions are outlined in the
   document "Install and Build instructions" on our web site [1]here

   The GUI code is in the freeze for QT4 conversion. I will fix bugs in
   policy compilers but will try to avoid changes in the GUI. New GUI based
   on QT4 will be released next spring when KDE4 is included in all major
   Linux distributions and FreeBSD. There will be bugfix releases for v2.1 if
   necessary.

Improvements and bug fixes in the GUI

     * Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Jose Carlos Medeiros
       <jose@psabs.com.br>
     * more for the bug #1816798: "Installing policy on PIX 501 fails". The
       fix that was made for v2.1.16 did not cover test-mode install, which
       is now fixed too. Command "terminal pager " is valid only for PIX 7.x
       and caused error while installing policy on PIX 6.3. Removed this
       command from the install sequence, it was not essential.
     * fixed bug #1849392: "RCS using windows 2003 without administrator
       rights". Pass TMP and TEMP environment variables to RCS tools
     * Fixed bug 1883536: "fwbuilder segfaults when importing iptables conf".
       Added support for TCPMSS target with option --clamp-mss-to-pmtu in
       iptables importer; also made importer upderstand option --tcp-option
       but skip it since it is not supported in fwbuilder.
     * fixed bug #1886570: Diagnostic related to Edit->Preferences. Removed
       harmless but annoying error message that appeared on stderr when user
       opened Preferences dialog.
     * fixed crash of the policy importer on 64-bit systems. This fixes bug
       #1886575: "Seg Fault on reading vanilla Fedora iptables file". See
       comment in module CircularQueue.hpp for details.

References

   Visible links
   1. http://www.fwbuilder.org/archives/cat_installation.html
