Summary:
This is a bigger release that brings in "recent" connection limiting (think
"port knocking"), firewall chain purging on a per-chain/per-table basis, and
support for a few other use cases. This release also fixes a major bug which
could cause modifications to the wrong rules when unmanaged rules are present.
New Features:
* Add "recent" limiting via parameters `rdest`, `reap`, `recent`, `rhitcount`,
`rname`, `rseconds`, `rsource`, and `rttl`
* Add negation support for source and destination
* Add per-chain/table purging support to `firewallchain`
* IPv4 specific
* Add random port forwarding support
* Add ipsec policy matching via `ipsec_dir` and `ipsec_policy`
* IPv6 specific
* Add support for hop limiting via `hop_limit` parameter
* Add fragmentation matchers via `ishasmorefrags`, `islastfrag`, and `isfirstfrag`
* Add support for conntrack stateful firewall matching via `ctstate`
Bugfixes:
- Boolean fixups allowing false values
- Better detection of unmanaged rules
- Fix multiport rule detection
- Fix sport/dport rule detection
- Make INPUT, OUTPUT, and FORWARD not autorequired for firewall chain filter
- Allow INPUT with the nat table
- Fix `src_range` & `dst_range` order detection
- Documentation clarifications
- Fixes to spec tests