[Firehol-support] FireHOL R5 v1.214 released.

[Costa Tsaousis]

Dear all,

FireHOL R5 v1.214 has been released.
This is a major release which includes several updates and fixes.

All users are advised to update to this version.

This release includes new service definitions: NIS, NUT, NNTPS, ASTERISK,
DARKSTAT, DISTCC, ESERVER, GIFT, GIFTUI, H323, IAX, IAX2, ICP, RTP, SIP,
STUN, UPNP, RDP, NXSERVER, RADIUSPROXY, RADIUSOLDPROXY.

The following service definitions have been updated: DHCP, SAMBA, NFS.

The following helpers have been added: TOS, DSCP, TCPMSS, ECN_SHAME.

The following optional rule parameters have been added: TOS, MARK, DSCP.

Added support for automatic installation of service definitions with third
party packages, in /etc/firehol/services/.

Also, FireHOL now has:

- improved interoperability with various Linux distributions, including
BASH 3.x,

- updated RESERVED_IPS for current IANA IPv4 reservations,

- finer control on ACCEPTed services to allow controllable requests per
second,

- the ability to control loopback traffic, and

- support for service groups.


Updated documentation can be found at:

http://firehol.sf.net

Kind Regards,

Costa