# Firewall Builder 4.2.2 Release Notes

v4.2.2 is a minor bug-fix release

SourceForge: Tickets for V4

## GUI Updates

- fixes #2395 "Crash when setting installer directory location" and fixes #2396 "Crash when changing firewall name". These two bug reports where the manifestation of the same problem that was introduced by the fix for #2380. When user hitsOK in the newFirewallDialog and new firewall object was added to the object tree, any editing of the parameters of this new object would cause GUI to crash.

# Firewall Builder 4.2.1 Release Notes

v4.2.1 is a minor bug-fix release

SourceForge: Tickets for V4

## GUI Updates

- Fix for SF bug 3169045 "Batch installer lists IPv4 address as management address". Built-in installer wanted to use management interface address in batch mode even when alternative address or putty session name was provided. This happens only in batch mode install.

- fixes #2370, #2371 "broken signals in network discovery wizard". Network discovery wizard was not correctly initializased and did not work.

- fixes #2368 and SF bug 3294457 "External install script". External install script name and arguments weren't saved for IOS firewall objects.

- fixes #2360 "Sometimes fwbuilder opens with object tree scroll bar centered so folders are not visible"

- fixes #2385 "PF action Classify uses wrong parameter". This change fixes a bug introduced in 4.2.0 that affects rules with action Classify in PF firewalls. The bug causes the following problems:

  For users who built their rules before v4.2.0:

  - rules compile normally, both in the single rule compile and when the whole firewall is compiled
  - if they opened the action of one of such rules in the action editor, the classification string would look empty
  - if they entered new classification string in the editor, compiler kept using the old one (which they can not see or change in the editor)

  For users who tried to build rules with action Classify with v4.2.0:

  - no matter what classification string they enter in the action dialog, generated code does not use it

# Firewall Builder 4.2.0 Release Notes

SourceForge: Tickets for V4

- Summary
- GUI Updates
- Changes in command line tool fwbedit
- Changes in policy importer for all supported platforms
- Changes in the built-in policy installer
- Changes and improvements in the API library libfwbuilder
- Changes and improvements in the library of standard objects
- common changes that affect policy compilers for all platforms
- Changes in support for iptables
- Changes in support for PF (FreeBSD, OpenBSD)
- Changes in support for ipfilter
- Changes in support for ipfw
- Changes in support for for Cisco IOS ACL
- Changes in support for for Cisco ASA and FWSM
- Changes in support for HP ProCurve
- Changes in packaging

## Summary

This release brings significant improvement in compile time on large object trees. The speed-up is especially noticeable in single rule compile where the time before generated firewall configuration appears in the GUI shrank by up to a factor of 10.

This release adds interfaces to the NAT rule model. There are two interfaces per NAT rule: "inbound interface" and "outbound interface". DTD version changes to "18", old data files need to be upgraded. Inbound and outbound interfaces in NAT rules are supported for iptables, ASA/PIX/FWSM and PF, but in the case of PF GUI exposes only one interface to the user since PF commands can not match two interfaces simultaneously.

This release adds support for ASA 8.0 - 8.3 configuration generation, including named objects and "new" style nat commands in ASA 8.3

This release comes with numerous improvemends in support for FWSM 2.x, 3.x and 4.x configuration generation.

This release implements import of PIX, ASA and FWSM configurations. Host name, version, interface configuration, object groups, named objects, access lists as well as commands "global", "nat" and "static" can be imported. There is no support for import of the "new" ASA 8.3 "nat" commands just yet. Also there is no support for import of standby configuration, which means PIX clusters can not be created automatically by importing existing configuration.

This release adds ability to generate initialization script in rc.conf fromat for FreeBSD. Only FreeBSD is currently supported (not OpenBSD). Generated script includes variables to configure interfaces and their IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, vlans, CARP and pfsync interfaces, as well as variables that initialize PF.

This release adds ability to automatically detect firewall platform from the format of the imported configuration file. Import is supported for iptables, Cisco IOS or Cisco ASA/PIX/FWSM. The program detects firewall platform, version and host name (if possible) from the contents of the configuration and shows platform-specific warning to explain what parts of the config can and can not be imported. Importer wizard has been reimplemented using QWizard and QWizardPage classes and its workflow significantly improved.

Starting with this release the program can optionally re-use existing objects from both Standard Objects and user-defined libraries when it imports existing firewall configuration. This works for any firewall platform for which we support policy import. Objects are matched by attributes such as address, netmask, port etc. Object name and comment are not taken into account. Importing the same configuration file twice creates two firewall objects with the same interfaces and rules but re-uses address and service objects created on the first import.

Deduplication algorithm is as follows:

- ASA/PIX/FWSM configuration import:

  ASA configuration language supports named objects and object groups. On import, fwbuilder creates objects and groups with the same names and uses them in rules. Objects created from in-line address/netmask and port specifications found inside object-group, access-list, filter or nat commands are condidered "anonymous" objects. These get automatically generated names and are deduplicated using only their relevant attributes but not names. Objects created from PIX named object ("object network foo", "object service bar") statements are considered "named" objects. They get the name matching the name in corresponding PIX config line and are deduplicated using both relevant attributes and the name.

- iptables:

  Fwbuilder can only import iptables configuration saved with "iptables-save" command. This format does not support variables or named objects, therefor all objects created from address and port specifications are "anonymous" and get automatically generated names. They are deduplicated using their address, netmask, port numbers and other relevant attributes but not their names.

TCP and UDP service objects in fwbuilder that define port ranges assume port ranges are inclusive, that is, range boundaries are included in the match. This is the behavior of port range matches in iptables and PF, however policy compilers for Cisco IOS ACL and PIX used to convert these objects into ios and PIX access list configurations that excluded port range boundaries from the match. This behavior made TCP and UDP service objects with port ranges incompatible between firewall platforms, that is, the same object could not be used in rules of firewall objects of different platforms because generated configurations would behave differently. This change makes port ranges inclusive in generated IOS and PIX configurations. Users should verify their configurations and adjust port range boundaries in TCP and UDP service objects if necessary.

## GUI Updates

- fixed #1872: "vlan interface does not appear in the list of interfaces for route-to action for PF".

- context menu item that opens object in the editor should be named "Inspect" when the object is read-only because the editor would not allow the user to change it.

- fixed #1926 "Crash when moving object in Standard library". Context menu item "Move" should be disabled when the object is located in the read-only library.

- see #1976 "Crash when deleting firewall object from rule after export / import library" Crash occurred as the result of the following sequence of actions in the GUI: 1) use context menu item "Cut" to delete an object in the tree, 2) open object group or rule and use context menu item "Paste" to add it, 3) export library to an external file, 4) import this library into different data file, 5) save the data file. Saved data file is invalid XML since it has unsatisfied reference and some operations on it cause crash. The problem is that since it is a reference to the object that is being added in case of both groups and rules, we end up with a group or rule with a reference to an object that is located in Deleted Objects library. Deleted Objects library is not included when a library file is merged into data file and this leads to a dangling reference. The fix is to not allow Paste if object in the clipboard has been deleted.

- see #1980 "Objects from Deleted Objects should not be allowed to be used in rules". Added checks to not allow drag-and-drop of an object from Deleted Objects library into rules and groups.

- see #1994 "Crash when compiling a firewall in an imported Library". To prevent crash, added check to make sure firewall object is not read-only before an attempt to update its "last compiled" or "last installed" timestamp.

- fixes #1993 "V4.2 on Windows - export Library shows the file type as Firewall Builder 2"

- fixes #1992 " V4.2 on Windows - installer error can't find Secure Shell utility"

- fixed #1989 "variables respath and librespath are redundant and copy Constants::getTemplateDirectory()". Got rid of global variables sysfname, tempfname, librespath, respath and localepath; will now use class Constants to keep this information.

- fixes #1998 "Crash after running find-and-replace then closing file". Specific sequence of actions and only on Mac OSX caused GUI to crash. To fix, I clear editor panel when user closes project window using MDI window title menu item "Close" or "Close" button.

- see #1996 "Crash when finding and replacing a large number of objects". When "find and replace" function was used to replace large number of objects in a rule set, it generated stream of calls to updateLastModifiedTimestampForAllFirewalls() which caused corresponding stream of events to update various parts of the GUI, both in the tree and rule set views. This caused weird corruption and crash on Windows. Trying to resolve the issue by optimizing the part that updated "last modified" timestamp on the firewall since all parts of the rule set updated in one call to "find and replace" function belong to the same firewall.

- fixes #2000 "New dialog window in New Firewall wizard for ASA / PIX - Network Zone explanation". Added page to the new firewall wizard to let the user configure network zones of interfaces when chosen firewall platform supports network zones (only PIX/ASA right now).

- fixes #1983 "ASA multiple interfaces have the same security level". Using table widget with spin-boxes to let the user edit security levels of interfaces conveniently.

- see #2006 "Crash when closing editor panel with find-and-replace". The GUI crashed if user tried to close editor panel at the bottom after closing objects+rules panel and while some object was still displayed in the editor.

- See #2015 "Add support for setting names of generated .fw and .conf files separately for PF". Added second input field in the "advanced settings" dialog, tab "Compiler" for the firewall platform "PF". Now user can set the name for both the generated .fw initialization script and .conf PF configuration file, as well as names for both files on the firewall. Support for this is generic and the same functions work for other platforms if corresponding input field in the dialog exists. The name of the initialization script is set as follows: 1) if user provided -o command line switch to the compiler, its argument is used. 2) if -o switch was not present but the name was configured in the firewall settings dialog, it is used. 3) if none of them were present, the name is constructed from the name of the firewall object with suffix .fw. The name of the .conf PF configuration file is taken from the settings dialog, but if it is blank, then it is constructed from the name of the initialization script but with suffix .conf.

- fixes #1914 "Address table object file name is not created properly if user clicks outside Editor panel"

- fixes #1915 "tooltip shown when mouse is over rule number should be added to the list of suppressed tooltips when 'Advanced user mode' is in effect"

- fixes #2064 "CARP interfaces are not properly installed on FreeBSD cluster". I need to populate failover group objects with some reasonable defaults when they are created.

- fixes #2067 "Add way to show interface label in object tree". The tree now shows interface name and label if the label is not empty.

- fixes #1979 "New firewall created with Cisco c36xx template results in network object in interface column in Policy"

- fixes #1895 "Add context menu option to expand all child nodes in object tree". Added menu item "Expand" to the context menu associated with all objects in the object tree. This item recursively expands all tree nodes under the given object and automatically changes to "Collapse" if the item is expanded. Also changed behavior of the double click on the object in tree: before, double click opened object in the editor and expanded or collapsed subtree. Now it only opens object in the editor but does not expand/collapse subtree.

- see #2103 "complex vlan/bridge configurations are not supported by the interface validation code". Added checkbox to let the user turn off interface name validation functions in the GUI. Checkbox is located in the global Preferences dialog, tab Objects, subtab Interface. For backwards compatibility, the checkbox is turned on by default. When it is off, the GUI does not validate the name of interfaces and subinterfaces and turns off checks that enforced interface name patterns for VLAN, bridge and bodning interfaces. It also turns off check for the validity of vlan ID derived from vlan interface name and turns off automatic configuration of interface type and vlan ID. These checks sometimes were in the way of building complex configurations that involved multiple vlan interfaces with names not matching their IDs. This also fixes SF bug #3066714 "please dont stop me from creating a new interface" where user wanted to create interface "veth201.0" on Linux but the GUI blocked this operation because the name seemed to match vlan interface pattern.

- fixes #2099 "Object list scrolls up to the last edited object". Object tree used to scroll spontaneously when user started dragging an object from it to a rule.

- fixes #1971 "Address range can be created with end address lower than start address". Address Range object dialog should not let the user enter range end address which is lower than range start address. Dialog behavior is now similar to the behavior of the tcp and udp service dialog where user can not enter port range end number lower than port range start number.

- fixes #1678 "When creating a firewall from template it appears that a default template is selected". When user arrives at the page where they choose template to create new firewall object from, the first template should be automatically selected.

- fixes #2135 "Editing table objects". Dialog of the AddressTable object now offers button "Edit" that lets the user edit address table file. This only works if the file is located on the same machine where the GUI is running, so it is probably most useful for compile time objects.

- fixes #2139 "Provide "Cancel" button if Address Table file is read-only". If the file configured with Address Table object is read-only, the GUI shows warning when user clicks "Edit" button and offers a choice: open it for viewing read-only or cancel.

- see #2140 "Attempting to create new Address Table file results in read-only error". Implemented support for the workflow when user wants to create the file used to feed addresses to the Address Table object.

- see #2047 "Inspect generated files button shows different path information". Do not pass full path to the output file as an argument of the "-o" option when the GUI launches policy compiler. Since the "-d" option passes directory path where files sould be saved, actual file names do not need to be absolute path, except if the user entered absolute path for the output file name in the firewall settings dialog.

- see #2153 "Add Network Zone explanation and selection dialog to ASA/PIX import". Wizard shows additional page when user imports PIX/ASA config. This page explains concept of network zones and offers UI to let them choose network objects or groups as a network zone of each interface.

- fixes #2156 "After import the firewall should be opened in object tree".

- see #2163 code that imports addresses from a file in /etc/hosts format moved to its own wizard; using QWizard and QWizardPage classes with correct implementation of page sequencing and validation; old discovery druid has been disabled. SNMP discovery and ios/PIX/iptables configuration import will move to their own wizards later.

- fixes #2203 "Crash when attempting to add an object to a locked group".

- fixes #2201 "Some fields of locked object are editable". Some input fields of the Custom Service object dialog were editable even when object was locked read-only.

- fixed SF bug 3238026: build failure on systems without net-snmp development libraries.

- see #2226 fixed GUI crash that happened when user tried to delete or cut an object from locked library.

- fixes #2307 "GUI switches to another file after editor panel is closed"

- see #2286 "Crash when closing file". The GUI crashed if user imported iptables or PIX configuration, then deleted a rule and tried to close project window.

- see #2171 "Undoing delete of rule ends up with rules being created with duplicate rule numbers". Also see #2172 "Crash when deleting rule - related to #2171". When user deleted the last rule in a rule set, then used Undo to restore it, the program lost track of rules in the rule set and became unstable.

- see #2335 "GUI switches between data files upon closing editor panel". If user opened two data files in the GUI and was in the process of editing objects in one of them, the GUI would flip to the other file under certin circumstances.

- see SF bug 3211769 "Member interfaces not sorted". Sorting interfaces by name in the dialog where user adds them to the cluster member group.

- fixed #2287 "Show text description in rule columns" does not persist across sessions

- see #2229 "Multiple new objects with the same name". The GUI should automatically choose unique object names for new objects.

## Changes in command line tool fwbedit

- see #2328 "Add ability to run firewall import from the command line". This has been implemented as a new function "import" in fwbedit. See man page fwbedit(1) and "fwbedit -h" for more details.

- Starting with v4.2.0, fwbedit.exe is now part of the Windows package

## Changes in policy importer for all supported platforms

### Changes that affect import for all platforms

- see #1931 "Update failed import behavior". Added meaningful error messages for when policy importer fails to create firewall object or does not create interface objects or any rules.

- see #2161 "import workflow and automatic detection of firewall platform from the config file". When user imports existing firewall configuration, the GUI automatically detects firewall platform from the format of the config file and shows platform-specific warning to explain what parts of the config can and can not be imported. It also detects firewall host name where possible (currently Cisco IOS and ASA/PIX). Importer wizard has been reimplemented using QWizard and QWizardPage classes and its workflow significantly improved.

- see #2162 menu item "File / Import Policy" renamed to "File / Import Firewall". This menu item launches wizard that imports existing iptables, Cisco router IOS or Cisco PIX/ASA config.

- see #2183 "count errors and warnings generated by the importer and show the numbers in the progress page of the wizard". Configuration import wizard now shows counters of warnings and errors generated by the importer.

- see #2189 Policy importer warnings and errors now include line numbers to help find relevant lines in the original configuration file.

- see #2189 Program adds the file name and the line number to comments of policy and nat rules it creates during import.

- fixed #1548 "Object de-duplication during import process". Also SourceForge 3030072 "remove duplicates during any import". Now the program can optionally re-use existing objects from both Standard Objects and user-defined libraries when it imports existing firewall configuration. This works for any firewall platform for which we support policy import. Objects are matched by attributes such as address, netmask, port etc. Object name and comment are not taken into account. Importing the same configuration file twice creates two firewall objects with the same interfaces and rules but re-uses address and service objects created on the first import.

- see #2253 "importer should not creates objects while still in the middle of the wizard". Importer wizard creates new objects in the object tree only when user clicks Finish and abandons results if they click Cancel.

### Fixes and improvements in import of iptables configurations

- see #2190 "support for import of branches in NAT rules for iptables". Implemented import of NAT rules in user-defined chains for iptables, these translate into branching NAT rules in fwbuilder.

- see #2196 "iptables nat rules with target REDIRECT not imported". Iptables NAT rules with target REDIRECT where not imported correctly.

- fixes #2195 "incorrect iptables import of nat rule with NETMAP target"

- see #2194 "iptables import problem with SNAT rule translating to an address range". NAT rules translating into address range with "-j SNAT --to-source 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.10" did not import correctly

- see #2197 "iptables nat rules in chain OUTPUT not imported correctly"

- see #2202 importer for iptables creates Custom Service object to match combination of states it does not recognize. This includes "NEW,ESTABLISHED".

- see #2336 Importer for iptables recognizes version stored in the top comment by iptables-save and sets version in the firewall object it creates.

- see #2206 iptables commands with no "-j TARGET" parameter should be imported using action "Continue".

- see #2338 "Empty Mangle Policy object created on import". iptables rules in the table 'mangle' will be imported in the dedicated Policy rule set with name "Mangle". Rules that use chains FORWARD and POSTROUTING in table 'mangle' can not be reproduced and will be marked as "bad" (color red and corresponding comment).

- see #2275 Importer for iptables now correctly handles both "intrapositioned" ("-s ! address") and "extrapositioned" ("! -s address") negation.

- see #2245 fixed bug in parser for iptables that prevented correct import of iptables rules using module "multiport" with port range matches.

### Fixes and improvements in import of Cisco IOS configurations

- see #2248 implemented import of Cisco IOS and PIX/ASA service configurations using port operation "neq". Since object model in fwbuilder does not provide direct support for "port not equal to" expression, this configuration is conveted into two tcp or udp service objects with port range extending below and above specified port and these two service objects are then placed in a group.

### Fixes and improvements in import of Cisco ASA/FWSM configurations

- see #2161 policy import wizard shows the page where user can set up network zones of interfaces if firewall platform was determined to be PIX.

- see #2152 "ASA Import - shutdown interfaces". Importer recognizes and skips ASA interfaces in "shutdown" mode.

- see #2248 implemented import of Cisco IOS and PIX/ASA service configurations using port operation "neq". Since object model in fwbuilder does not provide direct support for "port not equal to" expression, this configuration is conveted into two tcp or udp service objects with port range extending below and above specified port and these two service objects are then placed in a group.

- see #2268 updated list of named TCP and UDP ports recognized by the importer for Cisco ASA.

- see #2277 "Create policy objects for ASA access-lists that are not applied in an access-group". Policy rule set will be created and populated with rules found in the corresponding access-list even if this access-list is not applied to an interface with access-group command.

- see #2164 fixed import of "ssh" commands and added import of "http" commands for ASA/PIX/FWSM

## Changes in the built-in policy installer

- see #2039 "Installer reports success even if pfctl can't load config file". Added more pfctl error messages to the list to make code more robust.

- fixes #2049 "Installer reports success even if there was an error while creating static routes". Added our own error message generated when command used to add static route fails to the list of error messages recognized by the installer.

- fixes #2037 "If there is an error when compiling firewall then installer should be aborted". Compile/install wizard should disable "Next" button after compile phase is done if all firewalls failed to compile with no errors.

- fixes #2061 "Installer shows success for failed installed on FreeBSD due to corrupt script file". Added bunch of common shell error messages to make sure installer recognizes them and mark install as a failure even if ssh fails to pass termination code.

- fixed SF bug 3169045: "Batch installer lists IPv4 address as management address". The "summary" display in the installer progress log output will now show putty session name if it is used instead of the management address.

- see #2073 "Add additional information or workflow when no management inferface configured". The error message shown to the user when no interfaces has been marked as "management" is now more verbose and provides instructions how to do this. Also, if user provided alternative address to be used to communicate with the firewall, the check for the management interface is not performed since it is not needed.

- see #2088 "Installer caches putty session". Need to initialize putty_session properly and clear it in clear().

- fixes #2129 'deprecate "test install" function'. We have decided to deprecate test install because it is rather heavy-handed on Linux and PIX where it reboots the firewall and plain does not work on *BSD.

- see #2239 Added variable "firewall_name" to configlets that define commands installer runs on the firewall to activate new policy (all platforms).

- updated filesystem path on FWSM where fwbuilder built-in installer should place generated configuration when it is installed using scp. Currently using path "disk:".

- see SF bug 3212988 "external script makes getopt difficult". User-defined parameters for the external script moved to the end of the command line.

## Changes and improvements in the API library libfwbuilder

- see #1972 Separated object creation and initialization. Some complex objects need to create a set of standard child objects. Previously this was done in a special type of constructor which required pointer to the object tree root (FWObjectDatabase*). This created problems with implementation of the method to register functions that create objects of new types outside of the API. Now all objects have just a basic set of constructors, plus method init() that can initialize them.

- see #1972 implemented mechanism that allows me to register new object types created and used outside of libfwbuilder API. This means FWObjectDatabase can then copy and manipulate object trees that use these new object types.

- fixes #1937 "RES_DIR macro is defined twice". Got rid of duplicate definition of this macro.

- see #1985 added virtual function updateNonStandardObjectReferences() that is supposed to update any references to objects stored as attributes.

- fixes #1997 "add removeRef and addRef methods to class NATRule". Now undo and redo correctly remove and restore references to NAT rule sets in NAT rules with action Branch.

- fixes #1991 "Undo does not restore object as a parameter of policy rule action Branch or Tag after it was deleted deleted". Now Undo restores references to rule sets and tag services as arguments of corresponding policy rules, as well as references to objects configured as interface network zones.

- fixes #1987 "Deleting object that is used as Network Zone for ASA/PIX interface results in inconsistent behavior". When an object that is used as a network zone of an interface is deleted, it should be removed from the interface configuration as well.

- fixes #1995 "Crash when compiling a cluster with identical firewalls". Method Cluster::init() must call base class method Firewall::init() to get child Policy, NAT and Routing objects created.

- See #2084 "snmp discovery takes forever on devices with large routing tables". This takes very long time on decides with large routing tables. This code was implemented long time ago and apparently routing data was intended to be used to discover "external" interfaces, but it is unclear if this is still done. The concept of external/internal currently exists only for platforms that support security levels (PIX) and there we guess levels by matching addresses against RFC1918 and let the user user adjust levels manually anyway.

- see #133 Added interfaces to the NAT rule model. There will be two interfaces per NAT rule: "inbound interface" and "outbound interface". DTD version changes to "18", old data files need to be upgraded.

- see #2126 Using snmp sysDescr OID to guess version of the new firewall when it is created using snmp polling.

- fixes #2209 "do not allow the same object to be child of different objects in the tree". Method FWObject::add() enforces this. Subsequent clean-up and fixes in many places to follow this logic. This makes code much cleaner, better organized and more reliable.

## Changes and improvements in the library of standard objects

- #2083 Added new services to the Standard Objects Library: rtmp, xmpp-client, xmpp-server, nrpe

## common changes that affect policy compilers for all platforms

- fixes #1920 "Setting host interface to unnumbered after it has been assigned IP address doesn't have desired effect". Compiler still used IP addresses that belonged to the interface even if it switchd to "unnumbered". These children address objects should be ignored.

- fixes #2124 "some error messages get multiplied when compiler splits rules". Under certain circumstances error messages could appear multiple times in the generated script.

- see #2204 "Shadowing detected for rule with action Continue". Policy rules with action "Continue" should not shadow other rules and can not be shadowed.

- see #2207 fixed memory leak in policy compilers. The impact of this leak was especially severe on Windows with very large object databases.

- see #2212 "Performance improvement in compilers". This change brings significant improvement in compile time on large object trees. The speed-up is especially noticeable in single rule compile where the time before generated firewall configuration appears in the GUI shrank by up to a factor of 10.

- sorting objects in rule element after cluster interfaces have been replaced, this helps ensure stable ordering of objects in generated configuration.

- sorting objects in the rule element by name after group is expanded, this helps ensure stable ordering of objects in generated configuration.

## Changes in support for iptables

- fixed #1879 "gui crash". Both GUI and fwb_ipt crashed trying to compile a rule with action Branch that was not configured to point to any rule set.

- fixed SF bug #3102044 "Colon in (runtime) Address Table name". Variable used to process addresses in the run-time address table should not use character ":" even if it appears in the Address Table object name.

- fixes #1999 "log() does not work" Using built-in utitlity "command" to verify that all the tools generated script needs to function properly are available and can be accessed either via direct full path or are in the PATH variable. This includes the check for the logger tool that is used to make log record when firewall is activated.

- see #2097 #133 "support for inbound and outbound interface columns in iptables NAT rules". This also addresses SF feature requests 1954286 "DNAT with interface as condition not possible" and 621023 "manipulating interface in NAT rule".

- fixes #2008 "option "--physdev-out" is not allowed in OUTPUT chain". After this change, compiler avoids INPUT/OUTPUT chain if interface in the rule column "Interface" is a bridge port and firewall is bridging firewall (which means we are going to use --physdev-in or --physdev-out option for this rule).

- see #2170 "Compiler should generate error for invalid iptables NAT configs". Now that we allow the user to specify inbound and outbound interfaces in iptables NAT rules, compiler should verify that combination of requested "-i" and "-o" interfaces is in fact valid. For example iptables does not allow "-o" interface spec with rules that go into PREROUTING chain (DNAT rules) or "-i" interface spec with rules in POSTROUTING chain (SNAT rules).

- see #2181 "Update iptables importer to detect inbound & outbound interfaces in NAT rules". Importer can now import nat rules with "-i" or "-o" interface spec.

- see #2230 the GUI should allow limit-burst values of up to 10000

- SF bug 3178186 "Add ND/NS allow rules for the FORWARD chain". Rules that are added automatically to IPv6 Linux firewall to permit neighbor discovery packets should be also added to the FORWARD chain if the firewall is a bridge.

- see #2324 "NAT + MAC-matching rules not generated properly". iptables NAT rules matching a group of host objects with both IP and MAC addresses each in "Original Source" were not generated properly.

- see #2235 "Modified rule action for Continue". Rules with action "Continue" should translate into iptables commands without "-j TARGET" parameter. If such rule also has logging enabled, it should use target "-j LOG" instead of generating additional chain.

- see #2359 "Crash when compiling single rule with IPv6 destination and IPv4 gateway or interface". Routing compiler for iptables does not support ipv6 at this time and will issue a warning when user tries to place ipv6 address or network in a routing rule. The warning does not appear when ipv6 address is a member of a group used in the rule. Also see #1575.

## Changes in support for PF (FreeBSD, OpenBSD)

- see #1890 "Add support for configuring static routes on BSD". Implemented support for simple static routing rules. ECMP and routing via interface (routing to directly reachable subnets) are not supported. Generated script preserves static routing entries that existed before and attempts to recover in case of error.

- see #1888 "Add option to generate rc.conf.local file for BSD systems". Added ability to generate initialization script in rc.conf fromat for FreeBSD. Only FreeBSD is currently supported (not OpenBSD). Generated script includes variables to configure interfaces and their IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, vlans, CARP and pfsync interfaces, as well as variables that initialize PF.

- fixes #2026 Compiler can now generate static routing configuration in rc.conf format for FreeBSD.

- fixes #2032 "support for DHCP interfaces in rc.conf mode". Include dynamic interfaces inin the list of interfaces generated script manages when the script is in rc.conf format. This addds lines similar to 'ifconfig_em0="DHCP"'.

- fixes #2038 "pfctl error when firewall settings include scrub option for reassembly". Command "scrub all reassemble tcp" does not allow direction. Tested and verified on OpenBSD 4.2 and FreeBSD 8.1

- see #1889, #2043 Added support for bridge interface configuration in BSD.

- fixes #2054 "Add support for load anchor PF command". Instead of loading anchors using "pfctl -a anchor -f file" command in the .fw initialization script, now generated PF configuration uses "load anchor" commands in the pf.conf file. This way, we can load anchors correctly when PF configuration is activated from the generated rc.conf.local file where only one pf.conf file can be referenced.

- fixes #2042 "add configlet and shell functions to manage bridge interfaces via shell script on OpenBSD and FreeBSD". Bridge interfaces are managed incrementally, that is, the script creates and destroys them as needed, then adds or removes bridge ports, to bring bridge configuration in sync with what is defined in fwbuilder GUI.

- fixes #2065 "activation commands on FreeBSD and OpenBSD lose script exit status". Sequence of commands ran by the built-in installer on *BSD firewalls were losing exit status of the script which meant installer always declared installation a "success" even when there were errors.

- fixes #2066 "Existing VLAN interfaces are not properly removed from FreeBSD and install script fails"

- fixes #2069 "PF: allow multiple objects in ODst of redirecting nat rule". This fixes SF bug 3162862 "NAT - more than one object in original destination"

- fixes #2071 "vlandev missing in the vlan definition (when using rc.conf.local )"

- fixes #2058 "Ability to configure mtu and metric of regular interfaces". "Advanced settings" dialog of the interface object provides controls to configure MTU and possibly add any additional ifconfig parameters. This is available for OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

- see #2078 added verbose error message in a situation when "ifconfig carp0 create" command fails to create CARP interface.

- see #1867 "PF: rule with non-terminating action Tag shadows other rules below it". Since action Tag is non-terminating, rules with this action should not shadow other rules.

- see #2074 On FreeBSD ifconfig does not understand parameter carpdev

- fixes #1866 "support for pf option set state-policy", #1868 "support for pf option set block-policy", #1869 "support for pf option set debug".

- fixes #2092 option "stp" should be optional in the ifconfig command that builds bridge interface for FreeBSD. The dialog provides checkbox "Enable STP", parameter "stp" will be added to the ifconfig command only when the checkbox is turned on.

- fixes #2091 "ethernet interface options a used twice if the interface is a bridge port". When an interface appeared twice in the firewall configuration, such as when it is used as a bridge port and vlan parent interface, options configured for it in its settings dialog were added twice to the generated configuration.

- see #1871 "PF Actions Tag and Classify can be terminating or non-terminating". Added checkbox to the action properties dialog for actions Tag and Classify for PF that lets the user choose if these actions should be terminating or not. Old behavior (Tag was non-terminating and Classify was terminating) is reflected in default settings of the checkboxes. Terminating rules generate "pass quick" commands, while non-terminating rules generate "pass" commands (no "quick" option).

- see #1807, #2104: arrange interface configuration commands in the generated script in such order that bridge and carp interfaces are configured after all other interfaces are done.

- see #2105: generated script now supports vlan interfaces with names that do not match vlan IDs (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, shell script format).

- Making sure we print "ifconfig" commands for mtu and other parameters for all interfaces, including those with no ip addresses and bridge ports (unnumbered interfaces used to be skipped before)

- fixes #2100 carp password should be optional parameter

- fixes #2096 added support for negation in Interface column for PF NAT rules. Sets of interfaces are converted to complementary sets using complete list of interfaces of the firewall.

- fixes #2095 added support for groups and multiple objects in column "Interface" for PF NAT rules. These translate into { em0 em1 em2 } groups in generated pf.conf lines.

- fixes #2101 "CARP interfaces are set with same advskew". When new PF cluster is created, master advskew paramerer will be set to 10 and backup to 20 to make it deterministic.

- fixes #2116 "When CARP interface IP address can't be assigned error or warning should appear". The problem actually affects any type of interface. Generated script should abort with an error termination code when ifconfig fails to assign IP address to an interface.

- fixes #2117 "CARP interfaces in cluster that use VLAN interaces have no interface set to MASTER". When PF cluster configuration was built using vlan interfaces of member firewalls, CARP interfaces were not properly configured with master/slave choice user makes on the first page of the new cluster wizard.

- see #2143 "installer should run /etc/rc.d/pf script to reload PF rules on FreeBSD when generated script is in rc.conf format"

- see #2224 "FreeBSD - Bridge interfaces with the name vlan don't show as Bridge Port Interfaces". This actually applies to all OS where we support vlan and bridge interfaces. Fwbuilder GUI should allow the user to set subinterface type to both "ethernet" and "vlan" when its parent interface has type "bridge". Setting subinterface type to "ethernet" makes it bridge port, while setting the type to "vlan" signals policy compiler that it should generate code to configure real vlan interface. If the name of the subinterface does not include the name of the parent, such as "vlan101", or when the name does not match vlan ID, such as "vlan8101", global preferences option "Verify interface names and autoconfigure their parameters..." should turned off. The option is located in the Preferences dialog, tab "Objects".

## Changes in support for ipfilter

- There are no changes in the support for ipfilter in this release

## Changes in support for ipfw

- There are no changes in the support for ipfw in this release

## Changes in support for for Cisco IOS ACL

- fixes #1966 "IOSACL: object-group can get name that consists of only suffix". Compiler generated object-group statements with names such as ".src.net.0" in some cases.

- see #2252 TCP and UDP service objects that define port ranges assume port ranges are inclusive, that is, range boundaries are included in the match. This is the behavior of port range matches in iptables and PF, however policy compilers for Cisco IOS ACL and PIX used to convert these objects into ios and PIX access list configurations that excluded port range boundaries from the match. This behavior made TCP and UDP service objects with port ranges incompatible between firewall platforms, that is, the same object could not be used in rules of firewall objects of different platforms because generated configurations would behave differently. This change makes port ranges inclusive in generated IOS and PIX configurations. Users should verify their configurations and adjust port range boundaries in TCP and UDP service objects if necessary.

- see #2330 "Crash when creating a cluster of IOS router firewalls". Added support for basic IOS router clusters. No failover protocol support at this time, but the cluster can be configured with protocol "None" and fwbuilder will do address substitutions at compile time.

## Changes in support for for Cisco ASA and FWSM

- FWSM v4.x does not have "fixup" command, instead, we should use policy-map and class commands.

- refs #1893 fixes #1883 "inspect IP options in PIX8". Added support for "policy-map type inspect ip-options" command in PIX v8.2 and later. At this time, of all possible types of "policy-map type inspect" command only "ip-options" is implemented.

- refs #1882 "Mixed service groups in PIX8". Added PIX versions 8.0 and 8.3; added support for mixed servcie groups in PIX 8.0 and later.

- fixed #1892 "move rule processor class separateServiceObject to PolicyCompiler". This rule processor used to be implemented only in the compiler for PF, but since it has very general meaning, the same function was duplicated in other compilers as well. Moved the class to libfwbuilder and reimplemented several other rule processors to inherit from this class to avoid further duplication for code.

- fixed #1891 "problems with TCP and UDP services with source ports". Policy compiler for PIX did not generate correct PIX ACL lines when one Policy rule tried to match several TCP and/or UDP objects matching source ports.

- fixes #1901 "add destructor to NATCompiler_pix and NATCompiler_asa8". This eliminates memory leak.

- refs #1885 "named network and service objects in PIX8". So far, these objects are only used for nat configuration.

- fixes #1903 "correct order of clear commands for ASA 8.3"

- refs #1886 "new nat configuration in PIX 8.3". Initial support for new style nat configuation.

- fixed #1862 "fwb_pix crash". Compiler fwb_pix crashed when DNS Name run-time object was used in a rule, but worked fine and issued an error when used in single-rule compile mode.

- fixed #1906 "ASA NAT - Address objects are not properly identified by network zone and have the wrong real interface". The problem should have affected both "old" (PIX 6 and 7) and "new" (ASA 8.3) configuration. When an Address object was used in Original Source of a NAT rule, compiler used wrong interface in the (interface1,interface2) pair in "nat" command.

- fixed #1905 "fwbuilder crash when compiling a rule with hosts folder as destination". Compiler issues a warning when an empty group object is used in a rule, but GUI crashed when user tried to compile this rule using single-rule compile function. The change actually affects all policy compilers and makes sure the GUI catches exception and does not crash, and prints any errors generated by the compiler in the compiler output panel when single-rule compile function is used.

- refs #1908 "ASA NAT - cannot configure static NAT translations with (inside,outside)". Added NAT rule option to make source nat rules "static". The option is presented to the user as three radio buttons in the NAT rule options dialog which is only enabled when platform is "PIX" and version >= 8.3. Policy compiler generates "twice nat" rules with keyword "static" in the following cases: when TSrc is "original", so the rule translates destination and not source or when numbers of ip addresses represented by OSrc and TSrc are equal. If TSrc is not "original" and represents different number of IP addresses than OSrc, compiler looks at the new rule option. User can use or override automatic algorithm using radio buttons in the NAT rule options dialog.

- refs #1902 "Add NAT rule option "translate dns" for PIX". The option is only available for ASA 8.3 or later.

- fixed #1909 "ASA NAT - static nat port translation where service is the same for original service and translated service not generated correctly"

- fixed #1913 "ASA/PIX rules with logging enabled don't have log set unless user modifies Firewall Settings". Added default log level setting to the resource xml file for platform "PIX", set to "informational". ACL lines now get "log " keyword followed by the log level taken from the rule options, or if that was not configured, from the firewall object settings, or if that is not configured, the default.

- refs #1907 "ASA NAT - fwbuilder doesn't support multiple translated sources in a single NAT rule". Compiler uses object-group to translate NAT rules that have multiple objects in Translated Source.

- refs #1885 Compiler uses named objects and objects groups to build configurations that use address ranges in TSrc in NAT rules. (only ASA 8.3 and later)

- fixed #1917 "Duplicate objects are not detected". Compiler should detect duplicate objects that may be created in a rule element when user combines Address Table object with other address or network objects there.

- fixes #1934 "libfwbuilder::getOverlap() incorrectly calculates overlap between IPv4 networks". This should also fix SF bug 3156376 "Can not find interface with network zone that includes address range".

- fixes #1932 "Add description field to generated NAT rules for ASA". NAT rules generated for ASA 8.3 and later will have "description" keyword added, with rule label as an argument. Rule label includes word "NAT" and rule number.

- Added support for CustomService objects in policy and nat rules for ASA 8.3 using named objects and object-groups. -- see #1942 "ASA NAT - if custom service is included in service group incorrect config generated" -- see #1929 "move map named_objects inside class NamedObjectManager" -- see #1946 "restrict generation of the named objects by PolicyCompiler_pix to ASA 8" -- see #1885 "named network and service objects in PIX8" Note: this has been rolled back. There is no support for CustomService objects in NAT rules.

- see #1941 "ASA NAT - compiler complains about range in original destination". NAT rules translating destination allow Address Range objects in ODst or TDst for ASA 8.3

- see #1940 "ASA NAT - fwbuilder host objects interface IP is reserved keyword". Added list of reserved words used in IOS and ASA software to make sure generated named objects do not conflict. Will maintain single super-set of reserved words instead of separate set for each version of IOS and ASA.

- fixed #1938 "icmp" commands were not generated for ASA 8.x policy rules.

- See #1927. Added check for NAT rules that request translation of destination address but have ODst "any". This only applies to ASA 8.3; these rules are prohibited.

- fixes #1916 "nat rule must be "static" when subnet is present in TSrc"

- see #1942 improved support for CustomService objects for ASA 8.3. Generate separate named object and object-group for these objects, then split policy and nat rules so that only one custom service object is left in each rule and then use object-group to match it. Note: this has been rolled back. There is no support for CustomService objects in NAT rules.

- fixes #1948 "incorrect configuration created when a CustomService object is used in a policy rule for PIX/ASA versions prior to 8.3". Since we do not support custom service objects in policy and nat rules for versions older than 8.3, added check to generate fatal error when such object is used.

- fixes #1945 "object-group names include ever-growing suffix". Object-groups created by the compiler for PIX/ASA had numerical suffix that was constantly increasing when user used single-rule compile function in the GUI.

- fixed #1944 "ASA Policy - duplicate network object groups created for mixed service group with TCP dst and TCP src port range objects". Need to convert address range objects to subnets early, before the rule is split for any reason, to make sure object groups created later match and are reused.

- See #1943 "ASA Policy - mixed service group with TCP destination port range and standard TCP object generates invalid config". Protocol word "tcp" was missing after "deny" in the generated rule.

- see #1949 "ASA NAT - split objects if OSrc contains objects that are in more than one network zone".

- ASA 8.3 see #1942, #1943 fixed generation of the "object-group" statements by adding protocol keyword at the end so that the group can be used in access-list commands. It looks like mixed service groups that have no protocol keyword at the end of the line that defines them cause error "specified object group has wrong type; expecting service type". I am going to avoid using mixed service groups because of this.

- see #1953 "ASA NAT - two host objects in the same rule result in incorrect config". Objects that represent addresses of interfaces of a host object created using template will be automatically renamed to follow standard naming convention "host_name:interface_name:ip" to avoid creating duplicate names.

- see #1960 add support for CustomService for PIX policy rules. Note that CustomService objects are only supported in Policy rules since nat commands in ASA 8.3 require use of named objects and it is difficult to implement correct named objects and object-groups with protocol parameter and custom services.

- See #1959 "ASA Policy - ranges are broken into composite network instead of using range command." Added support for address ranges using named network object with parameter "range" for ASA 8.3 and later. NOTE: if a network or IP address object is used in a nat rule for ASA 8.3, a named object has to be created for it since ASA 8.3 does not accept IP addresses or subnets in "nat" commands. In the situation like this, if the same address or network object is used in any Policy rule, the same named object will be used in the generated access-lists command.

- see #1959 Moved generation of the code that defines named objects to class NamedObjectManager. This allows me to put all named object commands on top of the generated policy, nat and routing configurations and make sure each object is defined only once. Still need to do #1963 - move code that generates commands to define object-groups to class NamedObjectManager.

- see #1954 "ASA NAT - generate warning if nat rule is split and one of the resulting nat rules have the same real interface and mapped interface". Compiler issues warning when objects used in OSrc and TSrc of a NAT rule make it use the same interface as both real and mapped interface in the generated nat command. This check is only done for ASA 8.3 NAT rules.

- see #1963 "move printing of object-group definitions to NamedObjectManager::getNamedObjectsDefinitions()". Consolidated code that works with named objects and object groups in the class NamedObjectManager. This class manages all the objects and in the end generates commands.

- Refactored parts that generate "clear" commands to make sure they are printed in the right order at the top of the generated configuration. Previously compiler placed "clear global", "clear static" and "clear nat" commands above the NAT section but below policy section. Since ASA8.3 nat commands can use named objects and object groups, and since I have added support for object groups in ASA 8.3 policy rules, I now need to clear objects and object groups at the very beginning of the generated config. However in order to be able to clear objects and object-groups, I need to clear access-lists and nat commands that might be using them first. So, all clear commands are now grouped at the beginning of the generated configuration. This affects PIX/ASA, iosacl and procurve_acl platforms.

- See #1965 "ASA Policy - PIX 6.1 configurations use object groups". Policy compiler for PIX is now aware that object-group statement was introduced in PIX v6.2 and avoids using object-groups when firewall object version is set to 6.1

- made names automatically assigned to object-groups in generated PIX configuration shorter by removing interface label prefix.

- see #1968, #1972 Class NamedObjectsManager maintains its own copy of object tree that holds object group objects it creates during compiler passes. This allows me to maitain one common set of object groups for both policy and nat compilers and avoid creating duplicate and redundant object-group statements.

- see #1968, #1972 class NamedObjectsManager (and derived classes for IOS and PIX) generate "clear" commands. This way, I can generate correct set of "clear" commands that take into account any named objects and object-groups that could be created during both policy and nat compiler passes.

- See #1958 "consistently use "exit" to get out of nested context in PIX config". Using "exit" to exit from nested context while adding network or service object in generated PIX/ASA configuraton.

- see #1970 "ASA Policy - single IPv6 icmp object allowed in rules". Since we do not support IPv6 for PIX/ASA at this time, policy compiler should drop the rule if IPv6 address or icmpv6 service is used and issue a warning.

- see #1981 "ASA / FWSM Policy - Generate warning message if rule will not generate config data"

- fixes #1986 "Cisco ASA remarks should be truncated to 100 characters or less". Trimming all lines used for access list remarks to than 100 characters. Remarks can only be less than 101 characters on PIX/ASA and less than 100 characters on IOS.

- fixes #1994 "Crash when compiling a firewall in an imported Library". Compilers should reset any read-only flags in the copy of object tree they work with before they make any modifications.

- fixes #2060 "Existing configuration objects are not cleared in PIX 6.3". Commands used to clear object groups and objects have different syntax in PIX 6.3 and PIX 7 and later.

- see #2098 Added support for user-configurable inbound and outbound interfaces in Cisco PIX/ASA NAT rules. Two new columns appear in the rule set view: "Inbound Interface" and "Outbound Interface". If user leaves one or both columns blank, the GUI shows "Auto" in there and policy compiler picks corresponding interface automatically. Leaving both columns blank ("Auto") triggers backwards-compatible automatic behavior where both interfaces are picked automatically. Multiple interface objects and groups of interfaces are allowed in these columns.

- fixes #2113 "ASA/PIX SNMP discovery - assign default labels based on interface description". Added pattern to match Cisco ASA interface description which is different from Cisco PIX interface descriptions as returned via snmp.

- see #1990 "Change default value for Cisco ASA/PIX 7+ to generate outbound ACLs". Newly created PIX/ASA firewall objects will now have "generate outbound acl" option turned on by default.

- see #2252 TCP and UDP service objects that define port ranges assume port ranges are inclusive, that is, range boundaries are included in the match. This is the behavior of port range matches in iptables and PF, however policy compilers for Cisco IOS ACL and PIX used to convert these objects into ios and PIX access list configurations that excluded port range boundaries from the match. This behavior made TCP and UDP service objects with port ranges incompatible between firewall platforms, that is, the same object could not be used in rules of firewall objects of different platforms because generated configurations would behave differently. This change makes port ranges inclusive in generated IOS and PIX configurations. Users should verify their configurations and adjust port range boundaries in TCP and UDP service objects if necessary.

- see #2263 looks like "object-group service" that includes named objects defined as "service-object" can not be used in access-list commands and therefore is useless. Unless I misunderstood and there is a way to use it, I should not generate ASA configuration like this:

              object-group service id5102X14531.srv.tcp.0 tcp
                service-object object http.0
                service-object object https.0

  Object-group with "tcp" or "udp" type-suffix in the end does not allow "service-object" statements at all, so this configuration is incorrect anyway. However even without "tcp" in the end to make "service-object" references acceptable, the group can be built but can not be used in access-list statements.

  Instead, the group should use port-object statements:

      	object-group service id5102X14531.srv.tcp.0 tcp
      	  port-object eq 80
      	  port-object eq 443

- see SF bug 3213019 "FWSM Network zone and IPv6". Currently we do not support IPv6 with PIX/ASA and FWSM. If user creates a group to be used as network zone object and places IPv6 address in it, this address should be ignored while compiling the policy but this should not be an error.

- see #2308 "ASA rules with service set to "http" and destination set to ASA firewall object should generate different command syntax". Policy rules that have firewall object in Destination and http object in Service now generate "http" commands. This is similar to how fwbuilder generates "ssh", "telnet" and "icmp" commands to permit corresponding services to the firewall itself.

- see #2344 "FWSM install errors for clear commands". Using correct syntax for "clear" commands for FWSM v4.x

- see #2343 "Interface nameif error when installing generated config for FWSM". Use correct "nameif" command sytax in FWSM 2.x and 4.x.

- see #2345 More fixes for FWSM 4.x: "service resetoutbound", "timeout xlate", "timeout sunrpc"

- see #2344 fwbuilder should not generate any "ntp" commands for FWSM because NTP can not be configured on FWSM.

- see #2322 If this is FWSM and if manual commit mode is used, need to commit after clearing ACLs before we clear object groups.

- see #2347 "FWSM move up the "access-list mode auto-commit" command". Command that configures access list commit mode should be issued before any commands that clear and configure access lists. Also in this change moving commands that set up temporary access list to the top of the script.

- see #2348: "Accounting action is not valid for FWSM platform". Actions "Accounting" and "Reject" should not appear in the drop-down list of actions in the GUI if platform is PIX or fwsm.

- see #2295 Added FWSM version "3.2". According to Cisco documentation, FWSM version 3.2 matches PIX 7.

- see #2351 Security levels of ASA and FWSM interfaces do not have to be unique. Removed check that enforced this.

## Changes in support for HP ProCurve

- There are no changes in the support for HP ProCurve in this release

## Changes in packaging

- This version is the first one to merge libfwbuilder and fwbuilder packages. The libfwbuilder library is now in the src/libfwbuilder subtree inside fwbuilder code tree.

- RPM .spec files and DEB .control files are now located in the directory "packaging" inside fwbuilder code tree.

- Changes in the versioning format: build number is going to be used as part of the long version number, composing complete version as "4.2.0.3425". The "-n" suffix in rpm and deb package names will be used for package release number and most of the time will be "-1". This suffix should reflect minor differences in the package that do not affect the code.

- We have stopped making builds on Ubuntu Hardy. Old Qt (4.4.1) means more and more parts of the code do not compile and require workarounds, sometimes with loss of functionality in the GUI. v4.1.3 will be the last officially released version of fwbuilder to work on Hardy.