The new firewalld version 0.3.4 is available at
https://fedorahosted.org/released/firewalld/
Major changes:
- Provides enhanced firewall-config with lockdown and rich rule support
- New man pages (created from docbook sources)
- A first version of permanent direct rules (/etc/firewalld/direct.xml,
but without command line and firewall-config support)
- firewall-applet is now better working with gnome3
- Better python3 support
- Bug fixes and enhancements
- New services
Changelog for version 0.3.4:
- firewall-cmd: print result (yes/no) of all --query-* commands
- move permanent-getZoneOf{Interface|Source} from firewall-cmd to server
- Check Interfaces/sources when updating permanent zone settings.
- FirewallDConfig: getZoneOfInterface/Source can actually return more zones
- Fixed toaddr check in forward port to only allow single address, no range
- firewall-cmd: various output improvements
- fw_zone: use check_single_address from firewall.functions
- getZoneOfInterface/Source does not need to throw exception
- firewall.functions: Use socket.inet_pton in checkIP, fixed checkIP*nMask
- firewall.core.io.service: Properly check port/proto and destination
address
- Install applet desktop file into /etc/xdg/autostart
- Fixed option problem with rich rule destinations (RHBZ#979804)
- Better exception creation in dbus_handle_exceptions() decorator
(RHBZ#979790)
- Updated firewall-offline-cmd
- Use priority in add, remove, query and list of direct rules (RHBZ#979509)
- New documentation (man pages are created from docbook sources)
- firewall/core/io/direct.py: use prirority for rule methods, new
get_all_ methods
- direct: pass priority also to client.py and firewall-cmd
- applet: New blink and blink-count settings
- firewall.functions: New function ppid_of_pid
- applet: Check for gnome3 and fix it, use new settings, new size-changed cb
- firewall-offline-cmd: Fix use of systemctl in chroot
- firewall-config: use string.ascii_letters instead of string.letters
- dbus_to_python(): handle non-ascii chars in dbus.String.
- Modernize old syntax constructions.
- dict.keys() in Python 3 returns a "view" instead of list
- Use gettext.install() to install _() in builtins namespace.
- Allow non-ascii chars in 'short' and 'description'
- README: More information for "Working With The Source Repository"
- Build environment fixes
- firewalld.spec: Added missing checks for rhel > 6 for pygobject3-base
- firewall-applet: New setting show-inactive
- Don't stop on reload when lockdown already enabled (RHBZ#987403)
- firewall-cmd: --lockdown-on/off did not touch firewalld.conf
- FirewallApplet.gschema.xml: Dropped unused sender-info setting
- doc/firewall-applet.xml: Added information about gsettings
- several debug and log message fixes
- Add chain for sources so they can be checked before interfaces
(RHBZ#903222)
- Add dhcp and proxy-dhcp services (RHBZ#986947)
- io/Zone(): don't error on deprecated family attr of source elem
- Limit length of zone file name (to 12 chars) due to Netfilter internals.
- It was not possible to overload a zone with defined source(s).
- DEFAULT_ZONE_TARGET: {chain}_ZONE_{zone} -> {chain}_{zone}
- New runtime get<X>Settings for services and icmptypes, fixed policies
callbacks
- functions: New functions checkUser, checkUid and checkCommand
- src/firewall/client: Fixed lockdown-whitelist-updated signal handling
- firewall-cmd(1): move firewalld.richlanguage(5) reference in --*-rich-rule
- Rich rule service: Only add modules for accept action
- firewall/core/rich: Several fixes and enhanced checks
- Fixed reload of direct rules
- firewall/client: New functions to set and get the exception handler
- firewall-config: New and enhanced UI to handle lockdown and rich rules
- zone's immutable attribute is redundant
- Do not allow to set settings in config for immutable zones.
- Ignore deprecated 'immutable' attribute in zone files.
- Eviscerate 'immutable' completely.
- FirewallDirect.query_rule(): fix it
- permanent direct: activate firewall.core.io.direct:Direct reader
- core/io/*: simplify getting of character data
- FirewallDirect.set_config(): allow reloading
