Firewall Builder Release Notes


Version 2.0


Released 07/28/04
GUI and compilers v2.0 require API library libfwbuilder version 2.0

Summary

Firewall Builder GUI v2.0 has been completely rewritten using QT

For those who wish to build from source, instructions are outlined in "Install and Build instructions"

What's new

The GUI has been rewritten from scratch. The new GUI is based on QT 3.x. It has been tested with Qt v3.1.1, 3.2.3 and 3.3.1. We build on RedHat 9.0, Mandrake 10, SuSE 9.1, FreeBSD 5.2 using QT packages that come with these systems.

The GUI has been redesigned to addresses problems known to exist in fwbuilder 1.1.x user interface:




New firewall platforms and new features that apply to all platforms:




Bugs fixed in libfwbuilder API:



New features in iptables policy compiler fwb_ipt:



Bugs fixed in iptables policy compiler fwb_ipt:



Bugs fixed in iptables policy compiler fwb_pf: