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Revision as of 19:21, 25 June 2021
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Change Proposal Name
Rebase firewalld to upstream v1.0.0.
Summary
Firewalld upstream is about to release v1.0.0. As indicated by the major version bump this includes behavioral changes.
Owner
- Name: Eric Garver
- Email: egarver@redhat.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora Linux 35
- Last updated: 2021-06-25
- FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
Firewalld v1.0.0 includes breaking changes meant to improve the overall health of the project. The majority of the changes are centered around improving and strengthening the zone concept. All breaking changes are detailed in depth in the upstream blog.
Major changes:
- Reduced dependencies
- Intra-zone forwarding by default
- NAT rules moved to inet family (reduced rule set)
- Default target is now similar to reject
- ICMP blocks and block inversion only apply to input, not forward
- tftp-client service has been removed
- iptables backend is deprecated
- Direct interface is deprecated
- CleanupModulesOnExit defaults to no (kernel modules not unloaded)
Feedback
Benefit to Fedora
The major benefit to Fedora is more predictability in the stock firewall. In particular, "Default target is now similar to reject" addresses many subtle issues encountered by users.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Other developers:
- Release engineering: #Releng issue number
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Alignment with Objectives:
Upgrade/compatibility impact
How To Test
User Experience
Dependencies
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)